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stumbled on these at work!

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bertie_bassett:
thought id posted thee a hwile ago but obviously not.

found this the other day at another site.







also found a nice pair of 'grasshopper' pumps at another site dating fro 1870 ish but was too busy working to take photos

mexican jon:
Looks a lot like some of the water treatment plants I use to visit years ago (same area) They'll probably just end up being scrapped 1 day as that seems to be the way of the world these days health and safety and all that stuff  :doh:

bertie_bassett:
they probably are the same ones!

they will never run again as-is, but they hopefully wont be just scrapped. im sure they would happily let someone take them away if/when they ever need the space for something else. in the meantime though they will just sit there.

at least they are in the dry and are secure. so shouldn't deteriorate much

hermetic:
I once was called to an old lister genset that had been stood for about 25 years since the farm it served had gone "on the mains". Trouble was they got power cuts every winter, and the farmer asked if I thought it could be got going again.It was in a building, covered in dust but basically sound. Took out the injector, drained and refilled the diesel tank, bled it out, and cranked it..........the injector worked, put it back together again and off it went, lumpy at first, but soon settled down. When it started there was a huge crash on the tin roof as all the water in the exhaust shot out of the "flue and came down again! the change over relays were already installed so we simulated a power cut, put a tractor battery on the start circuit, and as soon as a light was switched on in the house, the genset started, and when the last light was turned off, it stopped. Spent more time cleaning and oiling than I did fixing.
Phil

awemawson:
I was house hunting in Cornwall back in the 1970's - looked at an old water mill, long derelict, with attached cottage. Poking about in an out building I flicked the light switch on, and a Lister Start-O-Matic generator fired up and put the light on!!!! I'm sure no one had used it in many years. I was amazed that there was any charge in the batteries after all that time - but they turned out to be ex Admiralty NiFe cells in a 24v bank. NiFe batteries retain charge reliably far better than lead acid though their internal resistance is much higher.

Ever since then I've fancied a Start-O-Matic  :thumbup:

The mill and cottage are now a trendy restaurant, or at least were last time I passed a few years back  :bugeye:

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