mattblack

You'll need to remove the woodruff key to get it off completely anyway. Can you get a thin piece of wood in when it's lifted as far as it will go to hold it up while you have a look inside with a light?

Good result! I'm guessing the mower has spent some time outside?

Your pictures are the other way round, the the first one shows the test leads on the HT lead and earth (coil secondary windings test) Looking at other pictures online that sleeved lead appears to be an earth lead for the coil? Have you tried another spark plug? And is the points gap correct? Not trying to teach you to sucks BTW, just trying to get my head around it!

Has it been running and then stopped? Or did you get it as a non-runner? I can't see in the second picture where you have the other test lead, but there should be no continuity across the open points. What's the purpose of the red lead with the sleeving on that's earthed on the condenser mounting screw?

That looks like a good project, seems like it's all there apart from the silencer? It's easy to think of 'D' frame generators as 'modern', but I would think that's getting on for 50 years old now. I've got an Alam Minigen with a Villiers F15 engine in the 'to do' queue, trouble is other projects keep pushing in front... I found this site looking for Conyers info as well, in my case a little JAP powered charging set that was on ebay.

That's some beast! It's hard to get an idea of scale in the first picture, then you see it has nearly the same footprint as a europallet.

Spooky, mine was waiting on the mat when I got home, I had a flick through and saw that. I have to 'fess up and say I'm the reader that sent the letter in...

No problem, I just happened to remember watching it a while ago along with some of his other videos.

Here's a youtube video of the restoration of a 1971 model, don't know if it's of use to you? 50 YEAR OLD RUSTY BRUSH MOWER RESTORATION - YouTube

Great to see the post restored, brilliant job! I got mine running after cleaning and setting the points and cleaning the carb out. A short video here: Swan Charging Set - YouTube There was a mention of these sets in a recent issue of 'Stationary Engine' magazine, it seemed to suggest that they dated from WW2 which is clearly not the case. But were they used by any other branches of the military?

I don't know if you've seen this? I'll leave others more knowledgeable to comment... World's SMALLEST Generator - Will It Run? - YouTube

Advertising this on behalf of the care home where I work, money raised will go to the amenity fund which pays for activities, trips Etc for the residents. Westwood S1000, unused for at least 13 years but stored in a dry garage, it was only used on the home's grounds so I don't believe it has done much work. There is a deck with it but I am not sure if it is the correct one as we had another ride-on as well. It will need to be collected from Oadby, Leicester LE2. I can assist with loading. Please PM me with an offer and I will put it to my boss and get back to you.

Looks like a great turn out and a brilliant variety (especially the early tractors) Thanks for sharing!

Sheep shearer? Engine could hook over the pen.

Could the gearbox on the end of the shaft be getting hot due to lack of lubricant? I take it the guard is in position and line cutter blade is present? Reason I ask is when I worked on hire machines we we would get them back with the guard moved up the shaft so more line would feed out, I was told this put more strain on the gearbox so the hirer would be charged for a new one.