Amanco rebuild early days

chuffchuff wrote: I'll need to suss out how to send a personal message now.

Or click on the MP button underneath profile on right hand side.
Don't ask me why it's MP not PM ?

Not sure how you plan to weld them, but if it was me I'd make the spokes a couple of mm shorter so they sit below the level of the rim, bevel the rim holes then you can puddle weld them in followed by linishing the welds smooth.

Hi Stuart. I turned up the amperage and burned in the weld then ground back to the wheel profile. Your right though I should really have shortened the spokes. I took the lazy option

Nearly there now with just the fuel tank to paint and fit.  
I guess I'll go with the coil for the first start as not sure of how healthy the mag is.

Looking good

Very nice! Well done that man.

That looks well. Like how you raised the engine up on the trolley.Arthur

That's looking very smart... almost a shame to run it!

I'm a bit concerned that you could pull the front wheel assembly off the wood of the trolley especially on a grass field. There's a big leverage between the lower handle attachment point on the front axle and the pivot on the trolley. I would fit a stabilising bar between the front axle and either the wood chassis or rear wheels. The bar should be pivoted at the front end on the same centre as the axle. Just my opinion....

Hi Blue Cat. No need to be concerned the axle is VERY solidly fixed I'll possibly post a photo to show the way it's secured.

chuffchuff wrote:Hi Blue Cat. No need to be concerned the axle is VERY solidly fixed I'll possibly post a photo to show the way it's secured.

I agree with blue cat, looking at the section of the axle supports they will fold very easily.

Maryalice

Ach, Maryalice your wrong to agree as you can have no real idea of the underside fixing design or the sectional size of the materials used. I'm fully confident there won't be a problem unless I decide to pull it over rough grass at over 50 MPH of course. Lol.

Sadly that means I wasted nearly 50 years as a mechanical engineer, I wont bother you with dimensions etc but its a doddle to calculate what sizes of angle iron you have used, you just measure a known part and by comparing it with the real thing you can scale up thus obtaining the sizes of your trolley.
There I shall leave it.

Maryalice

I'd better pull it to bits  and start again then.    

Seriously though I do agree with all    that the draw-bar looks to be on the feeble side it was constructed from the stock pile of materials that I have lying around and if I'd had suitable heavier material around I'd have used it I agree that I should probably fit vertical bracing's and I may do so yet. However I did carry out a fourteen stone+ static and dynamic load test with me standing/jumping on the draw-bar frame  it didn't break or deform so hopefully will do the job for a while at least.
Thanks for you observations though.

I started the engine for the first time yesterday and happily it burst into life on the very first crank-up.  
I hooked up the L.T. coil for the start then with it running I quickly disconnected the coil and swapped over to the mag, very pleasingly it continued to run as I did have some doubts on the condition of the mag. I'll now make up a period looking knife type switch so that I can swap over from battery and coil to magneto. I haven't tried starting it from the mag but I believe this required a good turn of speed to get the mag operational?
Prior to the startup I hooked up a ammeter to the coil this showed me when the igniter points were opening and closing and where the timing was set to. The coil draws around 10 amp on a 12 V supply.
Prior to start-up of course I was a not sure at what speed the governor would cut-in so was ready for a quick ignition disconnect however this was unnecessary as the speed was OK if a little on the fast side.  
All is well with the engine apart from the fuel tap leaking past the cork seal, not to be unexpected really as the fuel tap had lain in a box of old brass fitting for over thirty years. I was pleased to see that the engine runs just fine with no check valve in the fuel line. As expected.
The dog bowl was placed under the mixer to catch excess fuel as I intentionally flooded the intake to ensure a rich mixture for the first start. Don't worry though the dog got her bowl back washed in time for dinner.  
I guess I could say now all revved-up and nowhere to go due to this dreaded corona virus.

Looks good

What wood have you used for the base?.

Hi Stuart,  
The base was made from a unit top that I used to have in my sitting room a very long time ago, it's actually three planks of wood that are jointed, the jointing was done by my late father. I think from memory the wood was "Meranti". If you look closely at some of the pictures you may be able to see the tongue insert between the grooved joints. I intend to make hardwood end caps to hide this.

All materials in the trolley was from stock I have lying around apart from the wheel rims that I machined from sections of a scrap hydraulic accumulator bottle I bought, as it turned out this wasn't a great idea as the cut bottle sections were found to be well out of round and needed a lot of machining to make them round, most of the cut-off sections had to be scrapped as they were just too far out of round.