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Slight kick back on the starting handle
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#11
11-08-2019, 03:47 PM
That would be at the Hull Transport Museum, I believe? Cool
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#12
13-08-2019, 10:04 AM
Yes I looked after and ran a number of the vehicles for over 20 years. But a change of staff decided that running them would damage them and now they sit dead and gathering dust.
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13-08-2019, 10:46 AM (This post was last modified: 13-08-2019, 10:49 AM by Bob Culver.)
On the topic of hot tube ign, during the Depression my father acquired a Rudge multi engine to drive his lathe. But the magneto condenser had failed and he coud not afford one. So made one out of silver paper and mica. He said it produced 3 sparks. He then made up a hot tube and ran the motor on that until an electric motor was acquired. (Similarly the home made radio ran off a home wound transformer and a chemical rectifier; rather like an open battery cell.)
Running the Seven later was not a problem!
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#14
13-08-2019, 11:31 AM
Wow!   I think your father trumps my Dad in the "make do and mend" stakes.

We were forever bodging stuff when I were a lad, now, if I can get the proper tool, I will.

Makes for much better quality bodging.

Home made condenser and transformers not a problem, but a chemical rectifier? - cannot conceive of such a thing.
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#15
13-08-2019, 07:44 PM
See here...

http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular...y-1965.htm
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