Satoh S650G - Page 2

Originally Posted by miked

As I recall you have a few of those diesel lawn mower engines to play when you run out of other things to do.

Back to my dead radio its far enough into the modern era that its all surface mount tech so no way I'm going to even give it a try.

I looked at the link to the 3d file and I have to say that is neat. I've seen that short on tv but to see it and manipulate it on my laptop is very cool indeed. 73, and GN, Mike

Mike I would;nt be so quick to give up on that radio, most common failures are capacitors. Surface mounted components are not a big deal, mind you I'm not speaking from experience here just a few youtube videos that I've watched on how folks remove and replace faulty components.

Some guys even heat up the epoxy on encapsulated components to get at the faulty parts.

Years ago I had a Radio Shack scanner, my buddy's kid dropped the scanner onto the floor and it quit working. Turned out the circuit board had cracked in half, I found a guy that could fix the board by bridging the broken printed circuits by soldering bridges using fine wire. Scanner worked fine after the fix.

How old is your radio.

The Allis Chalmers 720 has a blown hydro static drive, inside some broken parts, motor housing damaged. All the parts with the exception of the motor housing were easy to find and or purchase.

A cub cadet from the landfill had the Sundstrand Series 15 model C, Allis uses an inline transmission. Looking at them their different and night and day, internally share some of the same parts, like cylinder block and pistons. About $600.00 worth of usable parts for my rebuild.

Gaskets and bearings were under a $100.00, used motor housing $195.00 and they sent the wrong one, they spent a week trying to locate the right one. Turns out the last order from Simplicity Mfg. was like 2011.

The housing I need is on the left with the longer snout, I have it over at the machine shop. They're going to Tig weld to build it up enough to re-machine it to meet the specs needed for Allis.

Scot was concerned about alloy incompatibility, so I told him to hack some pieces off the damaged unit to melt into the V of a piece of angle iron to make filler rod. He's telling me this could take some time, I say you've always got your lunch hours to use.

Originally Posted by miked

One hopefully small question. An explanation of swash plate(s) please.

My experience with swash plates was with helicopters in the Marine Corps. The swash plate would be just below the rotors and would transfer the motion from the pilot's input to change direction. Interesting to me is the actual input would be 90 degrees in advance of the desired movement of the aircraft.

Anyway good luck educating me and my old brain. Also thanks for sharing, 73, Mike

Same principal, instead of dealing with air, the swash plate used in hydraulics changes fluid dynamics.

Here's some pictures of the new Allis 720 hub that was machined from the 3D drawing.

Originally Posted by miked

Looks great. Mike

Thanks Mike, the transmission shaft that mates to the hub was also reproduced.

Originally Posted by miked

SWEET. You have some talented machinists doing the work. I know that because its mechanical it can't be an art form but I know it is.

I've noticed that in the commercials on tv and the programs themselves the only characters who are held in high esteem are "artists". What hell happened to tradesmen or just a smiling face at the Wendy's down the street being worthy of respect. Sorry had a rant that just needed to jump out of my butt.

Keep us informed on the progress of this project. 73, Mike

Last summer coming back from a parts buy stopped in at a Burger King, usually I grab a meal to take out but was tired from driving and decided to grab a table and a news paper. Did not order a drink, whit out asking soon the waitress brought a glass of water to my table.

Her actions were noted.

Few years back I had taken in a huge load of scrap, aluminium and copper truck and trailer, after cashing in stopped in at a men's work clothing store fours young women working the floor. I did not remember my waist and leg size and asked to be measured, three of the four woman headed to the rear of the store while one jumped right to the task.

Yea I was dirty from hauling in the load but this young woman did not hesitate to bring out her tape, with a bit over 8K in my pocket left her a $50.00 tip, next stop was the super store to stock up on grocery's. That was the day they signed me up for a credit card, one of which I'm still paying off.

Cut the card up two years a go and have another four left paying it off.

I always make a payment each month but not always the agreed upon amount, three days after the payment some dude from the collection used to phone, I've added all their numbers to my do not call list. I love my voip.ms telephone system for its manageability in blocking numbers, etc it's a full featured telephony system.

Originally Posted by miked

I'm glad you're still in the fight, it helps me on my bad days. Mike

Dating cost lots of money, would have been much cheaper to purchase personal services from a street vendor.

Yea I'm still in the fight but as the days pass I'm not finding much to fight about. Just putter along with my tractors and what ever happens to interest me upon wakening.

Wanted to do some ice fishing this winter but it will have to wait another year, Pat's transmission is taking precedence.

Last spring as the weather warmed up kept an eye on the smallish water holes not quite large enough to call a lake, what I was watching for is how quickly the ice melted, I found several water holes nearby that the ice stayed for a long time indicating very deep water. These water holes holding ice weeks longer are not fished by anyone I'm sure they'll have fish in them.

Another good sign was to watch which water holes get fished by the Pelicans.

[QUOTE=miked;274620]First I have had it verified I am the laziest member of the forum, my wife and dogs were on the committee who determined the findings.

Interesting weed killing video. I viewed it on youtube so I could see what the plants were, thought it was corn, verified it is popcorn. So I have a weed burner nozzle that I have used with a 30lb propane tank to kill the weeds at the foundation of my house and the fence row. It is very effective, being lazy I need to mount it on to my lawn tractor so I don't have to carry it around.

I have it on good authority that this is how fire ants came into existence

Picked up the modified motor housing from the machine shop this afternoon, they did a great job.

The housing on the right hand side below is the one modified to match the one on the left.

On the way home from the machine shop visited one of our favorite landfill sites. Below a list of the goodies brought home.

1. Samsung front load washing machine with smart drive motor - my wind generator project
2. Blacksmith post vice - good for trade or gift someone.
3. Refrigerated air dryer - nice to have conditioned dry air to paint tractor
4. Water separator for air compressor - addition to air dryer
5. Boat trailer winch - shelf junk trade or gift someone
6. Unknown electronic device - tear apart, curiosity item

I seem to have a thing for old lawn mowers, the Jacobsen reel mower cuts a 72 inch swath in one pass, not going to take much to get her running again.

The other machine is a Toro Sand Pro, used to groom sand traps.

Last year picked up this 15kw generator powered with a Petter PJ2 old school diesel.

The Stamford gen head is 3 phase with multiple power configurations, it's currently configured for 220 volts single phase for domestic use.