Drove just under 400 miles to meet my new mate "Dave"

SB118 · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:30

Went to pick "Dave" up from a guy who lives 169 miles away, according to the postcode he put in his address details anyway, unfortunately the postcode he gave me was a location about 20 miles away from where he actually was! Which made following my printed route plan a bit pointless

So after lots of stopping at village post offices and asking silly questions, i got to the farm where "Dave" was waiting for me, loaded him into the van and headed home. I've took plenty of pics, now i just need to find my card reader, gah!

Oh, say hello "Dave"

Can anybody guess the clever method i used to name him ?

Puppetmaster · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:34

because the guy u bought it off was dodgy

SexyGreyFox · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:39

Have we got to guess what it is?
Is it a tractor?

Kol · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:39

diesel x x electricity? going from your last thread

nicRob · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:41

It's a lister engine, for generator or something

Mic · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:43

A cow?

Thai hooker?

me227 · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:47

A generator to go off the grid with.

Feek · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:53

nicRob said:
It's a lister engine

Hence Dave, as in Dave Lister.

K.

Mic · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:53

me227 said:
A generator to go off the grid with.

Do you nwws licenses and stuff for that?

SB118 · 30 Jan 2006 at 21:56

Nope. And i've now got a stonking 6hp to play with

Slime101 · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:02

Wheres the pics of dave then (the engine, not the man)

kibblerok · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:03

SB118 said:
Nope. And i've now got a stonking 6hp to play with

so when are you going to go nuclear?

Overload · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:08

Diesel
And
Vegetable (oil)
Engine

SB118 · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:43

Overload said:
Diesel
And
Vegetable (oil)
Engine

This man gets a lollypop!

Overload · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:46

SB118 said:
This man gets a lollypop!

Yay!

*Slurrrrrrrp*

Yummy Yummy.

Chronos-X · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:46

SO you basically went out and bought a generator... is that it?

basmic · 30 Jan 2006 at 22:56

Chronos-X said:
SO you basically went out and bought a generator... is that it?

I'd say that's about the jist of it.

Anybody got a spare lolly for Chronos-X?

SB118 · 30 Jan 2006 at 23:06

It's not a generator, it's an engine. I need to add an alternator to the setup to make it into a genset. Lister engines are built to last, not like the rattly things that you get these days.

The black sooty hole is the exhaust outlet, the grey lever is part of the starting system, you turn the engine over until you think it's fast enough, then flick the lever over to drop the valves into place to let the engine fire.

SexyGreyFox · 30 Jan 2006 at 23:07

Its gorgeous -

http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Technical/31P1data.htm

SB118 · 30 Jan 2006 at 23:08

British engineering at it's best, leaking like a sieve and still running