This is not about grief or recovery. This is about putting what i already have to a new use because it's not doing me or anybody any good sitting around rusting up. The frame rusted out under the rear right tire, i limped it home hanging on the emergency brake cable.
I have already pulled most of big parts out of the engine compartment. i took a breather on it last year when the black wasps drove me out of the shed, and then we got the news. but i was down to taking the 3 bolts out of the torque-converter and unbolting the tranny from the engine and then I would have been ready to pull the block. While I was waiting for a quick freeze to kill the insects, the news hit. After that the car was put on a back-burner.
My first plan for a generator is not to buy one, but use something else; Dad had a 110V DC generator that's also just laying around. Alternately, I have plans saved on my computer for using old electric motors as alternators by energizing the stator and driving the motor (not using the start windings at all; they're what usually burn up in a motor so it's still good to me even when others would throw them away. i have lots of motors laying around; one is even rather large one, maybe 3-5HP electric motor. All that is readily available, for the scrounging. Dad had a lot of old machinery laying around that no one wanted to use anymore; so he'd just take whatever he wanted for a scrap chunk if he wanted to weld something up. again, not spending anything but time. I don't have a lot of experience welding or cutting and brazing, but I do have some -- enough to get started and not do anything stupid. i may be hard on propane a bit, and the torch may pop loudly and go out suddenly, but I've worked with other farmers that do that too. Dad said that was too much oxygen when the cutting lever was down.
even the metal lathe and scrap is available. Shafts, pulleys, and belts are at hand. putting it together and making it run, that's the challenge.
But I was a computer geek and spent 5 years doing that in college. this isnt my field, even if i have some basic experience...
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