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Puma / Dorman 6LE / MacFarlane B46B / 110 kVA Generator Resurrection
John Rudd:
Any reason for the Blue Klippons? :scratch:
(Normally used on IS circuits :zap:)
Earth ones normally Green/Yellow...
Or did you run out of the beige ones? :lol:
awemawson:
They were what RS had at as reasonable price that would accept 10 mm csa cable. The beige ones are up to 4 mm iirc. As for Green / Yellow, yes it would be nice but minimum orders hit you in the pocket!
RS seem to be in a right mess in the DIN terminal department, with catalogue errors and incomplete ranges stocked. It wasn't like this when they were Radio Spares and only had one location and that was in the City just round the corner from my then office !
Sea.dog:
St. Martin Legrand, wasn't it? Back in the day when their catalogue was about as thick as the News of the World :D
Pete W.:
About 23 years ago, I bought lots of DIN terminals from a branch of Wades, the electrical wholesalers. (I admit I wasn't using the size of cables you mention.) I never got stung with minimum order quantities but that branch of Wades, if I remember correctly, had an activity building cabinets for customers so DIN terminals were a staple item.
awemawson:
A day of three parts today !
The loins of bacon had had their allotted time curing so the first job was to open up their curing bags, rinse off the excess cure, and set them out to dry to form a 'pelicule', only then could go and play. After about an hour they were 'cling filmed' and put in the freezer to stiffen up for slicing. Now I can play !
Firstly I fitted the engine over temperature switch and the engine block heater, using Loctite pipe sealer on the joints. Then I added the 'beezer' round junction box for the heater, and ran it's conduit and cable back to the switch panel sockets. Then it was a case of running various conduits to all points needed, which I think I now have. One necessitated removing the ol filler assembly from the side of the engine, so I can definitely confirm that it has a crank shaft, as I've seen it :lol:
At this point My Hermes delivered the new 63 m brass bush so I was able to get on and fit it. The cables that will go though it are seriously difficult to bend - in fact I'm thinking I may need to use my pipe bender on them, and because of this I wanted the bush mounted as high in the output socket enclosure as possible to give more space to manipulate them, Needless to say the moulding of the enclosure didn't have a hole suitably high so I had to do a bit of sculpting with my air detail filer to create a starting spot for the drill. After this drilling the big hole went without too much drama and the bush was fitted. Glad to say the cables now pass through reasonable easily.
Right - help now at hand to return to the bacon and start slicing the chilled loins (6 mm rashers) and vacuum packing them - all 106 packs of 6 rashers. This took a couple of hours.
Then, moment of truth, fill her back up with antifreeze and water (memo to self I really MUST buy a bigger funnel!). So theoretically it was now safe to power up the block heater, so I did :bugeye:
The engine was sitting at 11 degrees according to my I/R thermometer, and the bit around the block heater quite quickly rose to 13 degrees so I went in for supper leaving it to heat up. On return the actual heater housing was up to 30 degrees and although perhaps, maybe, possibly, the water jacket was a bit warmer, it certainly wasn't as much as I'd expect, and the temperature gradient from heater block to the rest of the housing is too steep for my liking. I strongly suspect that there is an airlock in the system, and I need to run the engine to circulate the water a bit and get the air out, but I can't do that at the moment as the exhaust manifold is still blanked off from spraying.
I then wired up the starter solenoid as that is one conduit with only one function and relatively simple to do.
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