stevasaurus 22,956 #1926 Posted January 10 Well, there went 10 minutes of my life I won't get back !! 1 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1927 Posted January 10 2 minutes ago, stevasaurus said: Well, there went 10 minutes of my life I won't get back !! On the plus side you brought us up to page number 78 1 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,744 #1929 Posted January 10 If Trina would hide Eric's phone it can be finished by the next Maine Meet and Greet! 1 2 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1930 Posted January 10 6 minutes ago, squonk said: If Trina would hide Eric's phone it can be finished by the next Maine Meet and Greet! She's definitely mentioned multiple times she would have had it done by now but it's kind of a "build as you go project" and I don't even know what step follows the first one until I start messing around with it. I've been getting the itch to get this engine back together and running but it's been too damn cold lately. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1931 Posted January 10 @stevasaurus I made it so you could somehow justify your earlier reading of this lengthy excursion into blabberin-osity. As mentioned in other threads I've been carefully moving parts tools accessories etc about the buildings so as to group things together whenever I find group-able things. This here 90⁰ gear box has been patiently setting in the kitchen window for a year or three. I decided to pick and set to a more group friendly place. In other news.......... It looks like I've got some rodent killin' to do..... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bar Nuthin 853 #1932 Posted January 10 1 hour ago, ebinmaine said: It looks like I've got some rodent killin' to do..... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 These bucket style traps work great! And they're safer than poison or traps if you have pets around. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1933 Posted January 11 1 hour ago, Bar Nuthin said: These bucket style traps work great! And they're safer than poison or traps if you have pets around. We've used similar ones with good success. What's the brand on this one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bar Nuthin 853 #1934 Posted January 11 22 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: We've used similar ones with good success. What's the brand on this one? Random pic off the interwebz. I got mine at a local farm supply. Nice part is the rodents don't crawl away and die somewhere that you have to track down by scent. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1935 Posted January 11 11 hours ago, Bar Nuthin said: Random pic off the interwebz. I got mine at a local farm supply. Nice part is the rodents don't crawl away and die somewhere that you have to track down by scent. Agreed. We've used a similar version - without the roller - with good success. Put about 2 gallons of water in. Coat that with black oil sunflower seeds. Set the bucket 🪣 near a woodpile or stone wall and put a board going to the rim. Obviously we can't do that during the cold season (6 months) so we use other methods. I'll be setting out sticky traps and blocks of poison this weekend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bar Nuthin 853 #1936 Posted January 11 45 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Obviously we can't do that during the cold season They drown just as easily in RV anti-freeze 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1937 Posted January 11 1 minute ago, Bar Nuthin said: They drown just as easily in RV anti-freeze You'd think.... but they won't go in the flippin' bucket. Apparently the smell of the RV a/f is off putting. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bar Nuthin 853 #1938 Posted January 11 2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: You'd think.... but they won't go in the flippin' bucket. Apparently the smell of the RV a/f is off putting. Sneaky little bastards! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,867 #1939 Posted January 11 Never underestimate your opponent! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
19richie66 17,537 #1940 Posted January 12 On 1/10/2025 at 4:35 PM, ebinmaine said: In other news.......... It looks like I've got some rodent killin' to do..... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Tape over all those holes with some aluminum HVAC duct tape. Keep them out. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1941 Posted January 12 1 minute ago, 19richie66 said: Tape over all those holes with some aluminum HVAC duct tape. Keep them out. Good suggestion. I'll pick some up. Unfortunately I'll have to split the engine again anyway to verify if there's a 🐁 condo down inside the block. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
"Manic-Mechanic" 1,196 #1942 Posted January 12 "A fine wine takes it's time" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oldskool 6,658 #1943 Posted January 13 So the 90° gear box that has been sitting on your window sill for a year or three. This box, do you remember what you were going to do with it? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1944 Posted January 13 5 hours ago, Oldskool said: So the 90° gear box that has been sitting on your window sill for a year or three. This box, do you remember what you were going to do with it? That's a valid question. If one was to take a few hours and scroll back through all 78 of these pages there would be a discussion about static and dynamic weights and where I wanted to position the engine. I really wanted to have the engine facing the same way as most of the Wheelhorses so that the drive pulley would be off of the right hand side. This engine is just so big and so heavy that there's no way to do it without having the weight center way off to the left hand side even at level flat hard ground. Any sort of a tilt to the left and that effect would get magnified very quickly. That wouldn't matter to a lot of people but to me. It does. As a trained crane operator, Dynamic loading is something that I understand all too well and I don't want to deal with it on tilted ground with this tractor. Because of all that I'm going to have the engine facing fore and aft instead of sideways. This gearbox will be used to transfer the direction of pulley rotation. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill D 2,037 #1945 Posted January 13 On 1/11/2025 at 8:15 AM, ebinmaine said: You'd think.... but they won't go in the flippin' bucket. Apparently the smell of the RV a/f is off putting. Try regular antifreeze. It smells sweet. Might work better. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1946 Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Bill D said: Try regular antifreeze. It smells sweet. Might work better. I've notified The Rodent Removal Committee of your comment. That could happen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1947 Posted January 13 Mouse 🐁 & engine question. This here hole: Is definitely large enough to allow mouse 🐁 passage. Would it be worth buying a cheap "camera on a stick" type scope to peer down in there? Or should I just split the engine anyway? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oldskool 6,658 #1948 Posted January 13 Which hole it that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oldskool 6,658 #1949 Posted January 13 That must be Colossus' heart transplant? If it was mine I would pull the plugs. Force compressed air into both cylinders at the sametime thru the plug hole. A couple good shots. Then constantly blow while rotating the engine by hand a few complete revolutions. That should clear it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 69,272 #1950 Posted January 13 9 minutes ago, Oldskool said: Which hole it that? I don't actually remember what goes there. 1 minute ago, Oldskool said: That must be Colossus' heart transplant? If it was mine I would pull the plugs. Force compressed air into both cylinders at the sametime thru the plug hole. A couple good shots. Then constantly blow while rotating the engine by hand a few complete revolutions. That should clear it out. The cylinder heads aren't even on yet. The valve hole being full of seeds isn't a huge concern because I can vacuum that. The smaller hole above..... ?? It goes to the crank case. Breather maybe?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
