What are you currently working on??

IHCubCadet147 said:
I haven’t been doing much with my real tractors recently, but I finished up my JD pedal tractor that I restored. I actually finished this about 10 years ago, but never got the decals for it. I recently saw a set on eBay and bought them and put them on. It’s officially done now.
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I never even knew you had this Nick, THATS COOL!! You did a great job on the restoration, I hope you show it with your real tractors.
 
Pulled the wood splitter up to the shop to get running to hopefully sell. Been parked outside with tub over the engine since the building it was in disappeared in the tornado over a year ago. Pulled the shroud off that old cast iron 10 hp B&S and as expected and mouse hotel. Bot it all blew out and cleaned up found they had been chewing some on the plug wire so taped that up good. Then noticed there are two bare wires from the magneto twisted together and a small loop at the end. Have no idea where they were attached but am sure they go to ground. No spark when I pull it over, plug looks real good so will have to get that solved first. Got the flywheel cleaned up and the ends of the plates on the mag. Back was done for the day so that is where I left it. This is a rope start engine, no charging, lights or any of that stuff. Any other suggestions for those two bare wires let me know. Other two wires are to the plug and points. Ground the sparkplug to kill the engine. Real old school.
 
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Finally found the info I needed. The two wires are normally not used in this setup. The ignition coil is bad, open between the plug wire and the coil base. Rusted up pretty bad so not surprising. New one should be here Saturday. Put the new points, condenser and lug on it this morning. Fun trying to keep the .10 setting right as it changes every time you tighten the lock nut on that adjusting screw. Have to set the points at about .12-.13, then tighten the nut and it bring them back to .10"
 
When I was custom building HPO scale modal railroad grain cars I used a magnifying glass on all of it. Used to be a lot of the elevators had their own hopper car(s). Most were pink but being all PS2 hopper cars the tiny id stuff was the same. Just had to custom make up the elevator name, etc. Had a good run on them for over a year, then got the market saturated and no more calls for them.
 
Finished up getting the old wood splitter ready to sell this morning. Put the points, condenser and plug on it the other day. New ignition coil came Saturday so put it on this morning. Started and ran on the first pull. Those old Briggs are hard to beat if you get the points and coil gapped right.
 
chieffan said:
When I was custom building HPO scale modal railroad grain cars I used a magnifying glass on all of it. Used to be a lot of the elevators had their own hopper car(s). Most were pink but being all PS2 hopper cars the tiny id stuff was the same. Just had to custom make up the elevator name, etc. Had a good run on them for over a year, then got the market saturated and no more calls for them.
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Sounds like you had a good run with the grain cars, Rog! This is the first year lettering those invitational cars I had to use that lighted magnifier the whole time.

Glad the splitter is working good and ready to sell!

DAC
 
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