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Re: Where to buy cheap little " cement mixer" size deisel engines ?

Does anyone know where to pick up little deisel listers or petters?

>Not polished up show engines, but like from scrapped cement mixers, or >pumps, or the like. I particually want to get my hands on one of the >generators from temporary traffic light units, they run incredibly >slow, and cost pennies to run, anyone know what these are ? Thanks >guys.

There was an article in SEM, or it was in Engine Torque, when David edgington got hold of one of these. It had the cooling drastically revised to cope with long periods at very low power, so don't go running one at full whack until you have put that back as it should be.

Peter

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Speaking of which, my Other Hobby really does need a small, tatty, reasonably cheap petrol or Diesel cement mixer. Something sort of ten years old etc, not collectable or - come to that - nice enough to steal!

It's not for mixing cement, but the daub for the wattle and daub walls.

Can collect, prefer it to be in Kent etc.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

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Kim Siddorn

Can't you find an old original Donkey powered one somewhere, Kim?

8^)

-- Dave Croft Warrington England

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Dave Croft

"Dave Croft"

Naaa, gotta feed the damn thing and the RSPCA would soon be round.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

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Kim Siddorn

Does that work ? Only time I've done it we used a paddle in a bucket, turned by a slow-speed timber-framer's drill.

Not having aggregate in it, daub doesn't like being tumbled in a cement mixer. It forms a blob in the middle and just sits there going round and round.

(Incidentally, Wickes are now doing a slow-speed high-torque drill for £100)

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Andy Dingley

A roller mill is the accepted method for lime based materials, or shovel if you've got slave labour available. Get yourself some slaves, Kim. :-)

Arthur G

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Arthur G

We're not sure, the daub varies tremendously dependent upon area and mix. So far the best mixed varieties have resisted wash out by rain. We need one anyway for modern paved areas, so thought we'd try it with daub too.

regards,

Kim Siddorn. The Darhads keep Genghis's ceremonial butter lamp lit and every year they perform the ritual filling of his wooden bucket with mare's milk. The bucket, it is said, leaks in the direction that will bring the Mongols prosperity. Is the DOW or the FTSE any better?

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Kim Siddorn

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