Series II engine strip down

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Originally Posted by Chops

JT, when I lived in Albury, we had a wrecker who used to buy direct from the army,,, he had loads of stuff in boxes 📦,,, but alas, he has gone now, although he's still around and still a bit involved I think.

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There would have been a fair bit of stuff coming out of Bandiana. There would have been a heck of a lot more at Moorebank in Sydney.

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Originally Posted by johntins

There would have been a fair bit of stuff coming out of Bandiana.

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Actually, legend had it that there were brand new, crated WWII Harley Davidsons and BSAs buried under the parade ground at Bandiana. Hmm, who has a good metal detector and an excavator?

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Originally Posted by incisor

i discovered you can really speed the process up putting 19v @ 3.5 amps through the molasses mixture using the old anode / cathode routine...

i just used an old laptop power supply..

worked a treat on a heap of bits i needed done in a hurry a few years ago.....[bigwhistle]

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Really?? That's a nice piece of info.. Coupla car batteries should work then.

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Originally Posted by johntins

Really?? That's a nice piece of info.. Coupla car batteries should work then.

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too much power makes the molasses turn to foam.....

and that can be unpleasant.

This afternoons effort

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Did all the cam followers fall out when you tipped it upside down?

No

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Did all the cam followers fall out when you tipped it upside down?

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Should they have, if not, does that mean they'll be rusted in or something, or could it be something more sinister?

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Originally Posted by pop058

Our local waste facility takes up to 20 Lt drums of old oil and such for nix. The 20 Lt limit is purely for handling limitations.

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Old oil has some value for recycling to contribute to cost of handling it.
Haven't taken notice to see if oil re refiners are still in business in Australia. Long ago I used to buy their product for some lubrication purposes. Was cheaper than new oil equivalent. Probably cost of buying the likes of used sump oil, cleaning it and adding appropriate additives was cheaper than starting with base oil from refinery. I presume much less re refining of used sump oil would be necessary for it to be used as furnace fuel. Remember around 20 years ago, West Coast Railway company was running R Class steam locomotives they had fitted with oil burners on weekend Melbourne -Warrnambool trains. Apparently effective cost of large amount of used sump oil for them was 8 cents per litre.

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Originally Posted by Chops

Should they have, if not, does that mean they'll be rusted in or something, or could it be something more sinister?

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No, I should have checked the book before making the last post - I was thinking that the locating bolt only secured the guide, but it also retains the 'slide', the top part of the follower, which comprises a steel roller and a bronze slider that is lifted by the roller and has a socket for the pushrod on top. The slide, being non-ferrous is probably free to lift out once the bolt has been removed, but judging from the rust seen so far, the rollers may be stuck and the guides are very likely to be.

John