OT Halfords Don't you just love 'em

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Danny

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• Sep 4, 2005

• #21

GbH wrote:

> Just can't get the plutonium quality these days.
>

I think I've good some in the shed somewhere, I'll have a look later.

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 4, 2005

• #22

On or around Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:46:35 +0100, "GbH"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>I think you may run into a problemo just reversing the battery polarity, your
>starter motor is going to do its best to crank t'engine back'ards,

not with most starter motors - only the permanent magnet type motors go
backwards. Starters are the other sort (series wound, maybe?) where the
electromagnets are in both the armature and the casing.

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Larry

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• Sep 4, 2005

• #23

Oh the old magneto on my lambretta scooter, 6 volt and what need of
batteries. As you went round a corner and the lights dimmed with the engine
revs

The good old days.

Incedentally can one push start a diesel ?

If you push start your engine or use the starting handle, then you can
charge the battery back up



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Larry
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"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:50:28 +0100, "GbH"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> I knew that, wondered if anyone else did
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> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young / In a world
> of magnets and miracles / Our thoughts strayed constantly and without
> boundary / The ringing of the Division bell had begun. Pink Floyd (1994)

 

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AJH

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• Sep 4, 2005

• #24

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:17:13 +0100, "Larry" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Incedentally can one push start a diesel ?

Definitely can with all my ancient examples, may be a problem with a
modern ecu controlled one.

AJH

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 5, 2005

• #25

On or around Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:42:11 +0200, AJH <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:17:13 +0100, "Larry" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Incedentally can one push start a diesel ?
>
>Definitely can with all my ancient examples, may be a problem with a
>modern ecu controlled one.

anything with a solenoid fuel shut-off will not work with a dead-flat
battery... 'course, really old ones have a knob to pull to shut 'em off,
linked by cable to the pump.
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and harmony in the cosmos. Create a blue light in your life by
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