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Hi All here is my early Christmas Present from that big man who appears at Xmas time hope you like it

Tried this using a 1 Gallon plastic petrol can with 15mm copper pipe and an old washing machine hose attached to a washing machine water inlet tap . The tap was positioned so the through flow ( pipe connector sides ) were the inlet and outlet between feed pipe and carb , with the washing machine feed ( valved section ) being for the air mixture inlet to the petrol vapour flowing to the carb . Rigged it upto a 1200w generator and mixed the petrol at 1:1 with water and shook it up . The little genny usually gives around 6 hours on a full ( 6 L ) tank . Using the bubbling i got 45 mins from 250ml of petrol mixed with 250ml of water . This equated to the genny going from 1L/hour to around 3 1/2 hours per L . So it actually does work. But a warning - A seperate water bubbler tank should be employed as a blow back arrestor between the engine and fuel tank . Idealy this should have an easily blown out bung fitted in case of pressurisation from a back fire etc as the back pressure can blow the liquid fuel back out of the air inlet tube . But as a way to keep the genny running in a blackout , it certainly does give a lot more KW per £ .

Hi all a little more progress on the work shop move brought over the turf track and another wheelhorse 800 ,. And I've acquired alias of link racking to put my spare parts on etc here's the state of play so far

As part of my O&R collection I have a Little Wonder hedge trimmer with O&R power, also 12 volt and 240 volt versions. New additions are a period sign for the display and today another 30" blade hedge trimmer arrived with the later style of O&R engine in it...

Just back from Northampton, been to collect a 1948 Pilot I bought some time ago. I had one when I was a student and always fancied another that I could use a a period towcar for hauling a tractor. It has been in a bubble for 9 years, I winched it on to my trailer but now have to get it to start to be able to take it off the trailer on my own.

HA, I'm an idiot! Just looked real quick at the pic before posting. Guess it's one of those mind bending illusions used to trick the simple minded, like me! Those bastards got me!

Mr. Wallfish, the decals are actually very good quality. Look again at the direction of the 6300 rpm. Are you sure that it is in the opposite direction?!

And.... nothing like keeping us in suspense!

Tinkering in the shed this afternoon, cowling on first drill now painted so that's back on with decals... Chrome on both units not saveable so I've used smooth silver Hammerite to smarten them up.

Aha! Good eyes on the outboard tank! I've been wondering what it went with since I've had it.

Here are some pictures of my Bridges Mini-Mota drill, the tank on mine must have leaked as someone has repaired it with solder. I wonder where all the chuck keys go, none of my O&R drills came with one. David

Looks like your sorted, it should be easier to adapt that tank, than to build one from scratch. I'm guessing it's from an outboard motor like the one in Wallfish's display in the "Big O&R display" thread. David

I did 3 hours work yesterday , cutting out and affixing a shop sign and earned £250 , I took £40 to buy myself a 1950's Medding Pacara bench drill and she moaned at me , She took the remaining £210 and went out and bought firworks for my sons birthday on Saturday ?. But i will still have the drill when the firworks have gone up in smoke ! . But she still has to moan about it............ WHY ? . Maybe all we are seeking is the answer ? . Nice tyres by the way ...

Absolutely.

Lots of work to clean that one up but looking forward to see how it comes out.

Wow that's some equipment you have there , would love to try a d200 out , never driven one .