Lister D trolley

[Maker]

My Dad has spent the last few months restoring a Lister D, an argosy water pump and some other things. The Lister has sat on a weak alu base ("unwanted" where he works) with casters in all four corners, but set back from the edge, making it very unstable. A few weeks ago he got the flat bar (50x6mm) and I made up the handles. The he got some lovely cast iron wheels so I made up an axle bracket type thing with flat bar and some half inch threaded pipe. Today we assembled the cart so here it is:


It rolls around easily with me standing on it but I'm not a 300 pound cast iron engine. If you think it looks a bit long, your right, it's made to hold the Lister and the argosy pump as well. I'm spending the week over there in a couple of days and we're going to get the flywheel off, get the water jacket off ( and fix the leaking gasket) and get any other heavy parts off and then rebuild it on the trolley. I'll post more pictures then.
If anyone wants to know anything about the trolley (dimensions ect) or even anything about restoring the engine, please feel free to ask. It's easier that than me say everything I can because I could babble on for hours.

 

[Rig Pig]

Make sure you put some pictures up, old engines are a soft spot of mine!

 

[Robotstar5]

Make sure you put some pictures up, old engines are a soft spot of mine!

This one any good?....

 

[Rig Pig]

Ahh mechanical porn!

 

[Maker]

The only pictures I have are before any restoration.

 

[Robotstar5]

This is the only pic of a Lister D I could find from a recent vintage show I visited.

I like the miniature bucket hanging on the tap.

 

[mfletch]

I have a old 5kv generating unit that would look the part with your engine

 

[Bsmith]

I have a old 5kv generating unit that would look the part with your engine

A Lister D is only 11/2 - 2 horse power, won't drive anything like 5kva though.

Some interesting old stuff here http://www.stationary-engine.net/forum/search.php?searchid=1832169h. Including pics of my old Lister D.

 

[500e]

Is it the engine or you 300 Lbs. would have thought the wheels want to be a bit closer to the balance point

 

[Maker]

We started to get it apart today - we took the top water jacket section off and dropped a bolt and a pushrod down into the main body, where the crank lives. Luckily we got the bolt out with a magnet taped to a long bolt but the push rod is still inside so we have to take off a cover on the side to get it out. Now I think about it, it's really not a great design how you can drop things down into the body of the engine that could potentially destroy it.
We also started painting the trolley - the wood has had 2 coats of black sandolin, the metal has a coat of red iron oxide primer and the wheels are all done now in black.

 

[Maker]

Here it is now. It isn't very hard to move it around and there's plenty of room to fit a pump on as well.

 

[MattF]

I have a old 5kv generating unit that would look the part with your engine

Photo's?

 

[MattF]

Here it is now. It isn't very hard to move it around and there's plenty of room to fit a pump on as well.

That's definitely looking a tad perkier. You going with the traditional green?

 

[mfletch]

Photo's?

I will post some later when I'm on the computer

 

[Maker]

That's definitely looking a tad perkier. You going with the traditional green?

I'm not sure what's happening paint wise tbh but I think he might be leaving it raw. As I said in Doubleboosts lister thread he might get another on to repaint and replace bits and keep this one "weathered"

 

[mfletch]

Photo's?

sorry for high jacking the thread

 

[Maker]

That's massive, there's no way a Lister would run that, unless the spindle turns really easily.

sorry for high jacking the thread

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Don't worry about it.

 

[Rig Pig]

That needs 10+ hp to run properly! it's a nice bit of kit and a good make