Internal Fire Museum of Power

Just waiting for the welding to be done on one of the air vessels and a drive belt, runs lovely, video soon.





It will eventually be plumbed in to my churn cooler, I was given the pump by a friend , and the engine was a barn find, and was removed from the barn, given a quick going over and plonked straight on a trolley ready to be rallied, just how I like them!

Nice original setup. What reduction are you planning to use to drive the pump? It looks as though it will be driven off the flywheel as it is which will be faster than the engine speed, and I'm sure that those Godwins are only rated to run at 500rpm or so. There was one at GDSF a few years ago driven off the flywheel of a D-type doing over 2000rpm, it had sucked it's inlet hose flat so wasn't pumping, it's poor little innards must have been a blur

Dan

It will go off the flat belt pulley on the engine, if that is too fast then I have a lister D pulley I could put on, I didnt have the heart to paint it!

If your using a Lister D pulley you will need to fit a sleeve as the Bamford crankshaft is a smaller Diameter.

It will be too fast. Even off the pulley that is about a 1 to 1 ratio - and the engine is 750rpm. I would suggest a smaller pulley, 2 to 1 reduction should do it.

Dan

Ok cheers for that Mike, I thought they were both 1.5'', that pulley looks bigger than it is in the photo, it is a bit smaller than the one on the pump, if it does go too fast I will put the small pulley on there

What diameter is the crank?

thanks
Roland

I always assumed it was 1.5'' but apparently it is smaller, it seems bigger than a wolseley WD2 one, which is 1 1/4, I assume it it 1 3/8 then? have never really investigated!