Compactors

Paul Evans has one in Internal Fire. See here for a remakably good picture of it working.

may be able to furnish you some details or Gary may have some if he sees your post.

John

I spent a good portion of my first year out of school working at Warsop Power Tools testing these things. They had a diaphragm Amal carb IIRC, worth looking at that before you do much else.

Also the setting of the inlet valve/lever/linkage is quite sensitive.

Dan Howden has a couple....

Peter

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I have a few of these, and a Pegson rammer, there's a few pics at

I've always found mine to be sensitive to choke setting, fuel/oil mixture, valve setting, spark timing etc. My advice is to persevere - the correct settings will come along eventually. I have a manual that I can copy for you - e-mail me your address off line and I'll bung one in the post.

Glad to see a few of these being restored now - they're an interesting exhibit - I've managed to promote a bit of interest running these at rallies, and I know of at least 3 ng contributors who now have running examples ;-)

Regards

Dan

Dan wrote

I purchased two of these about three weeks ago, and thanks to Dan have managed to get one good one. I have had it running/jumping but it needs tweeking to get it to be more reliable. Although identical one is badged as Warsop, the other as Jupiter.

Pictures can be seen at;-

Andy M

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Thanks to all. Mine is just like yours Dan, with a little side-draught Amal float carb and a cast alloy fuel tank on top. Yours seems to be missing the bent piece of tin-work that shields the 'gubbins.' I've had another good play with mine today on the drive with some fresh petrol mix, after if got really warm I found that it became quite dependable, with perhaps about 20 bangs before a mis-fire. I can't play with it for too long in one go out of respect for the neighbours!

I've hopefully sent you an e-mail.

PS, spell checker wants me to replace Amal with 'anal!'

Cheers Julian.

Thanks very much Dan, it arrived this morning. There's some interesting stuff regarding setting the ignition and valve timing, I'll be investigating that in the near future!

First thing now is to try and buy a new diaphragm for the carb on my (circa)

30 year old Hayter rotary lawn mower with a 4hp B&S. I refuse to let it die, IMO it's so much better than the modern stuff with tin or plastic decks and daft dead mans handles meaning that you've got to re-start the thing everytime you empty the grass box!

Regards Julian.