millmeece rally

Hi folks. I hope you have all had a good weekend, mine went rather well, i spent saturday at a small rally at millmeece. The weather was superb, we managed to get the lister L and N out together. At one point the N stopped with a dirty plug, just as i got up to see to it the L stopped before the N types flywheels had stopped turning, whats the chances of that! a good clean of the plugs and the points on the L and they were away again. We had a mooch around a bit later on and being drawn to the colour of rusting metal in the corner behind a shed, we found an aray of decaying pumps and steam related machinery, i spotted two rather large flywheels, upon closer inspection i saw two crankshafts attached, after a look round steve spotted the crankcase, and then another under all sorts of scrap metal. I made some inquiries and was told they are going to be installed on a concrete base outside the pump building, but due to lack of support this wont be happening any time soon, they're both complete and very restorable, they really should be sheeted up as the tinworm is taking hold. We also had a good look around the pump house, the engines inside are huge with flywheels the size of your average semi. They are fastinating to watch working its well worth a visit as the engines are in steam most weekends. Today, i managed to get my crossley blinking into the sunshine, after a bit of lubrication and freeing of the water drain taps and filling with water, away she went first swing,although not very well at first but after some adjusing and theres plenty of adjusters on it, it settled down and run very nicely apart from a slight knock on the big end. I hope to get it put on a better trolley and repaint it over the next few weeks as its been painted quite badly the wrong colour. Alltogether i've had a very good weekend. What have you all been up to?? Regards, Gary M