I've been having fun with a trio of Iron Horses - or BSA derivatives - this last couple of days. I had three rather incomplete engines, one of which was a dynastart generator, a kickstart engine and A N Other engine.
The generator was my first priority and I converted it from an incomplete, none going army genny to a "civilian" version by the removal of the cast iron base tank and direct lift carb and replacing them with the nice little oval top tank and normal carb from another. As you can imagine, it took a good deal longer to do than to say and the amount of time one can soak up cleaning commutators, cutting set screws to length, finding washers and replacing plug leads to say nothing of matching fan covers to engines and building/modifying silencers etc is quite amazing.
But it was done in the end and now I have a lightweight electric start charging plant that starts and runs very easily. This compliments the EX WD one I have already that is very complete and original - but a good deal heavier!
On to the next and I fitted the direct lift carb and base fuel tank to the kickstart engine which has a flat belt pulley and built up the remainder of the bits into a simple top tanked engine with a vee belt pulley in place of the kickstart.
They were all obliging enough to start and run without a lot of trouble, but I am short of a fan cover. Anyone got one spare? Any condition as I'm going to paint these.
Regards,
Kim Siddorn