It has been getting pretty silly in the workshop recently & I am in the middle of so many engines that I took myself to task and resolved to Finish Something!
Ten years or so ago, I'd bought a mid 1980's Briggs & Stratton 240 volt genny for not a lot - the alternator had failed & although I could not find anything wrong with it - diodes OK, new capacitor, windings OK, flashed it a couple of times - it still stubbornly refused to produce any current. It was on the to-do list & I had all the bits, so, having a new 3kva alternator in stock from the ones I found in Crewe last year, I married the two this afternoon and after some hesitation, it ran.
We've been having a few mains drop outs recently (water in the cables I think, they've had the pavement up out on the main road) so now I'll be able to annoy the neighbours with both the noise & the fact that I can have a cup of tea & watch telly when they cannot ;o))
Now I need to make it a rabbit hutch so it can live in the back garden & I've got an engine finished & out of the workshop. Yippee!!!
Regards,
Kim Siddorn