Lister CS6/1 wanted
 

I had no luck with the 750rpm electric motor for my Samuel Platt blacksmiths hammer so I thought I might try running it with a Lister CS6/1, Anybody got one needing minor restoration ?

John White

Try Ebay usually on there There is a 6/1 on now under lister CS

What kind of self commencer do you require ?

Also if you dismantle the pump, look out for monkeys, they'll steal anything !


Samuel Platt.................................

A kangaroo makes a far better pet, you can adapt them like so they will data bit of bread and butter.

What's bread and butter got to do with a self commencer ?

I usually have sliced granary,

Possibly with sea scopium paste,

Samuel Platt...........................

I am missing out . . . I want what ever you are all taking!

Cheers Carl.

It's a well known fact that you can get your kangaroo to eat bread and butter with his hands whereas you can't make anything of a monkey, if you have your magneto in pieces he will steal your parts.

Stand back you Boys!! The elephant's about to make water!!!

And i aint going along with it

The man said Fowlers were built altogether wrong and i um sure he were spot on, that man with the felt at

When do you see a Fowler with a broken axle ?......................................

I once listened to a rubber band,.................... and I saw a needle wink his eye......................

Anyway......................back to Lister engines,.................

I once knew a man who had a Lister Junior , he couldn't get it to start,

It had no belt pulleys, so he was able to put the starting handle on either side, he had the handle on the wrong side and was winding it the wrong way !

When he wound it the right way, it started perfectly !

CHUG......CHUG...........

Me, Charlie D, Robin and several other hairy arsed tin miners spent a whole afternoon trying to start a concrete batching plant fitted with a Petter engine - late on in the afternoon and after several phone calls to the hire company we discovered we had a Lister self commencer. A quick tweek of the pawl inside so we could wind the engine the correct way and away she went. We never made that mistake again!!

PS I have an Armstong Sidley single cylinder diesel in need of rather a lot of TLC if you're interested John.

Unfortunately I am only conversant with the Lister type commencer, I have an old Winget mixer with a ST1 as original equipment, we built the whole shell of a three bedroom house on less than a gallon of cherry, She starts first time every time.

John

I forgot to add that when she starts I feel compelled to do a little dance,

John

John,
Do you do the "Gay Gordon" dance ?

Or are you strictly " Disco " ?

Samuel Platt.........................

No, actually its the dirty diesel dance.

John

This is the best thread i've seen on here for ages!
How many years did he wind it the wrong way before he twigged?

Of all l the felt hats I've ever felt I've never felt a felt hat like this felt hat felt, felt.felt.

I wonder if Mr Beeching would be kind enough to post a picture of the Sea Scopium hook that I commissioned for him.

John

aka geo, ( Gentleman engine owner. )

Ha! well we know you're a gentleman John. A hook made out of a sea scorpium , that would be a sight to see!

Jim, not a hook made out of a sea scorpium , a hook for catching a sea SCOPIUM, they are as big as a ships sailing cloth, they have a frogs head and they are all gold.

Tony Beeching has such fishing tackle.

John

Yes i have all the relative equipment to go scopium fishing but i have no boat.

Ladies and gentlemen i am about to build a boat, i have 1000's of rivets to put in and i am going to have to work real hard to finish it for the Spring of the year. This boat will have two forward speeds, hatchways and gangways. It will weigh about 9 tonnes and will be semi-submarine fashion. Looking for crew - Steve Gunn and John White have already offered their services. Gentlemen traction engine owner and sea scopium enthusiast

Flippers at the ready boys! When do we start?? :p

Hello gents,

Obviously extreme caution has to be exercised whilst Sea Scopium fishing, If you were to see one under the water while the sun was shining bright you would see his eyes stick out a bit bulge fashion,if you try to winch him up to see if he is any good you may be frightened and decide not to disturb that lot in case he drags you under the water.

Anyway, we now have a plan for our semi- submarine vessel, we have experienced plate flangers and riveters,Mr Green can provide his blacksmithing expertise. Ideally it should be steam powered but as we have to be ready by the spring of the year maybe a Lister CS6/1 would do as a substitute, anybody got one?

Johnny

I think eveyone should drink a bottle of wine before they come on here !
There was a class of steam submarines in the First World War or just before. They had too many holes in them!

I've got a set of castings in stock for a Stuart 6a compound marine engine, ( I really have ), perhaps I could get it all made before the Scopium hunters boat is ready ?

Then we'll need a propellor...................

Oh yes, that engines alright,

yea engines all right yea engines all right

Of course the engine was alright, he was referring to a BB1.

By the way CS6/1 denotes - 'C' Scopium 6 feet 1 fathom :confused:

All mad as hatters!!

Cheers Carl.

Mr Gunn,

I have to disagree re. Fowler BB1, everybody knows thy're built altogether wrong, the winch drum ought not be underneath, thy're built any old how, that John Fowler was an ignorant man he was ignorant as a pig.

Geo

Well, you have upset me now, I'm off to find my old WW2 gas mask and impersonate an elephant.

Mr Gunn,

As usual you're all in a fog.

As we are all coming out of europe....................

Do we still have fishing rights to trawl for the sea scopium ?

I could make a fishing hook if I had a sketch of it,

I could also make a clonking iron to stun it after it's caught,

You could stun it with a Wallis and Stevens ash pan rake................. Probably be a bit flimsy ...............just like a Wallis engine.

A Fowler rake would do a better job , probably take two men to lift it though !

What about an Aveling ashpan rake ? Trouble is an Aveling driver is too busy throwing coal into his boiler to have any time to stun a scopium, ( Aveling and Porter, coal and water )........................( see what I did there...........it rhymes )

Tasker tractors....................... probably have an ash pan rake same size as a Mamod................too small.

Mclaren ash pan rake ? Anyone got the phone number of Baldwin crane hire ?

How about a Zettlemeyer ash pan rake ?..................YUK.............Dont even go there,

A Garrett ? same as a Wallis................

I know, let's use a Burrell ash pan rake to stun the scopium, It would be sleek, stylish, well designed, ergonomic ( if you know what that means ) , well painted , and well engineered, just like a Burrell engine,

If we needed to haul the scopium up the beach, we could have a Burrell in front to pull the load, and a Fowler on the back to make all the noise !!

PS, Chris Edmonds once told me If both a road loco and a 5 ton tractor run over your foot.............You'll find there is very little difference between them !!!!!

Richard, thats very good for 5.20 pm.

Outstanding, absolutely outstanding Mr Green.........thank you!

Re Sea Scopium hook, as I mentioned in a previous post Mr. Beeching has one ready for our expedition in the semi submersible ,

I had an Artisan blacksmith make one for him at a little steam do in Camerton Somerset a few years back.

I have given up on my quest for said Lister for our marine power plant, I believe Charles Burrell once made marine triple expansion engines, I think Mr Green would approve, Start looking.

Johnny

Has anyone seen my spanner??!

Is it a Metric spanner , or a proper one ?