[TheForge] Re: Retirement Plan (and a diesel question)

[Andrew Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Michael Horgan wrote:
> 
>> The plan is to make sure I have enough projects to get done, that I'll 
>> never have time to die.
> 
> Well, I'm 66 and it looks like this might be the year I finally get my
> 300# air hammer working -- at last I found a running, affordable,
> industrial diesel with a TwinDisc clutch that I think has enough
> power.  So, a whole new adventure in blacksmithing just getting under
> way.

	TwinDisc, as in Cadillac-Gage?  If so, where'd you find that?  AFAIK, 
they only do stuff for DoD... tanks, APCs and that sort of large stuff.
> 
> Question: Anybody have experience with a Deutz 3-cylinder air-cooled
> diesel engine? (It's an F3L912 to be specific.)  I've seen it run but
> the are several little things that need attention, one of which is the
> tach cable.
> 
> The cable attaches to (what appears to be) a little right-angle
> gearbox on the front of the engine.  I need to remove the tach cable
> from the gear box and I can't figure out how to do it.  There's a
> large male threaded collar on the cable but it's just sitting there,
> not screwed into anything and there's no way it could be.  It looks
> like it might be one of those parts that is designed to fit two or
> more set-ups, one that uses the threaded collar and one that
> doesn't. The cable appears to have been just, well, just "stuck into"
> little gearbox where it magically stays.  And stays.  Can't find a
> locking pin, snap ring, spring release.  Reasonable force doesn't
> extract it.
> 
> Anybody know how this works?
> 
> (And I have a couple of other questions for you if you're a Deutz
> F3L912 wizard.)

	Do they have a website?  If so, go there and see if they have online 
manuals.  Many manufacturers do this now.

	Good luck.

	Andy