Sankey Widetrack Camper Conversion

In Holland for a show and a holiday

Weather very changeable, but not too cold.

Philip has his Sankey with him and we have the 6-wheel drawbar turntable trailer with us.

Peter

They look superb
What a set up and awesome achievement. Enjoy the holiday
We've been on a few sites in Holland. Lovely place, but watch those bikes!

You will notice that we have two bikes on Philip's trailer.

The marina has cycle paths all round, and it's a nice and safe ride.

In mainstream cities the bikes tend to be segregated from cars etc, but they do have priority in some places, so yes, you do need to look out for them.

Camping Eldorado, Plasmolen.

Peter

Great progress Peter it's looking good.
Hope you all enjoy the holiday

listerdiesel said:

You will notice that we have two bikes on Philip's trailer.

The marina has cycle paths all round, and it's a nice and safe ride.

In mainstream cities the bikes tend to be segregated from cars etc, but they do have priority in some places, so yes, you do need to look out for them.

Camping Eldorado, Plasmolen.

Peter

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Oops, didn't see the bikes!
I've found T junctions a bit tricky. You can't see up or down the road unless you drive on to cycle way. You pray for a gap in the traffic before a bike comes along because you invariably get a dirty look for being in their way. In one day, in Amsterdam, we saw three pedestrians ran over. Looked painful. We had several near misses ourselves, so there must be a lot of that happening. I don't know why they have to pedal so fast especially in town/city centres.
I hope the weather holds for you. Rained most of yesterday here. Dull this morning, forecast more rain later. British summertime

Beautiful day yesterday, nice and hot again today

Peter

listerdiesel said:

Beautiful day yesterday, nice and hot again today

Peter

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Lucky you! Very, very wet yesterday and wet again today> Will it ever stop?????

Just started light rain, but still very warm. Thunderstorms forecast later.

Peter

Whenever I've been in Holland I've marvelled at the number of people whose bike tyres get trapped in the tramlines so that they fall off. Then other cyclists run into them. The Dutch seem to be remarkably robust. They all get back up and get on the bikes again.

Brown said:

Whenever I've been in Holland I've marvelled at the number of people whose bike tyres get trapped in the tramlines so that they fall off. Then other cyclists run into them. The Dutch seem to be remarkably robust. They all get back up and get on the bikes again.

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I can imagine that happening, but never saw it.
What amazed me was the speed they travelled at! They would be silently on people before the pedestrian would know they were coming, but would then abuse them as though it was their fault. I'm all for the use of bikes, but anyone on a bike behaved like they were gods and untouchable. Once you got on your bike everything was the fault of the nearest person not on a bike. Seemed to have gone a tad far to me.

While in Holland we had a phone call about some lathes, the seller of which I knew, and I knew that 25 years back we had been to his place and he had a large Petter S Type engine stood in the workshop.

Apparently it was still there and he was retiring and clearing the place out so he could sell the building, so having been given a favourable price, I bought the engine, sight unseen.

It's a 1932 18/21 hp semi-diesel, and we went to look at it last weekend. It stands over 6ft tall, the flywheels are 42" diameter and 4-1/4" wide.

It will take a while to clear a path through all the stuff in the workshop, but here are a few pictures.

Peter

My Grandad used to have one just like that. It was a bit of overkill driving his saw bench via a flat belt.
We never stalled the engine, but we made the belt fly off many times. I got good at putting it back on "live".

And there was me thinking my workshop was CLUTTERED

What a fantastic place. I can see lots of other tools in there I'd like to have a play with too.

You would not believe how much stuff is in there, we reckoned a month to get a path cleared to the external door.

Peter

Here's a picture of a similar engine out in the open. Picture copyright Woolpit Steam Rally.

8" bore X 10" stroke, just over 8 litres.

Peter

listerdiesel said:

Here's a picture of a similar engine out in the open. Picture copyright Woolpit Steam Rally.

8" bore X 10" stroke, just over 8 litres.

Peter
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You sure? I get that to be just under 126 cubic inches which makes about 2060cubic centimetres

Edit: sorry ignore that I forgot to square the radius ..doh!

Jam1 said:

You sure? I get that to be just under 126 cubic inches which makes about 2060cubic centimetres

Edit: sorry ignore that I forgot to square the radius ..doh!

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Was just about to say, he's bang on. Then your edit came in while I was doing the calcs.

Wouldnt mind a few more pics of the inside of that little un.

Finally got a trailer so busy drawing up designs and ideas for an off roady type mini campery expeditional overnightering bed in a box.

I'll try and catch Philip on a 'tidy' day!

Cooker, oven, fridge, shower cubicle, bed, it's pretty cosy and he has lived in it for a year now, amazes me, but he enjoys it, comes to work with it every day and wild camps at night, or stays with our horses in their field.

Peter