vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Resurrecting my Lister D stationary engine. It's been standing idle in the garage buried under a pile of junk that is now either in the bin or at the recycling centre.
My first attempts at starting it bore no fruit and investigations show no spark at the spark plug. A quick clean of the points in the magneto and it started on the first attempt.
After tweak of the air mixture control it settled to a steady beat.
It could well turn out to be a winter restoration project. The paint is the wrong colour and the trolley needs the timber replacing.
I will be celebrating later with a bottle of 1983 blackberry wine that I discovered lurking in the back of a store cupboard in the garage. A test tasting was very promising.
My first attempts at starting it bore no fruit and investigations show no spark at the spark plug. A quick clean of the points in the magneto and it started on the first attempt.
After tweak of the air mixture control it settled to a steady beat.
It could well turn out to be a winter restoration project. The paint is the wrong colour and the trolley needs the timber replacing.
I will be celebrating later with a bottle of 1983 blackberry wine that I discovered lurking in the back of a store cupboard in the garage. A test tasting was very promising.