[AT] Whoa!!!!!!

[Carl Gogol]

If you don't want to cut up your tractors when converting to 12 volts, the generators can be converted to 12 V for about $100 (5-6 year old price)  Less if you do your own work in changing the coils.    Not sure where to buy the coils from, but a generator shop can do it for not much more $ than a gen rebuild. 
Carl

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From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Len Rugen
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Whoa!!!!!!

I converted my "new" H to 12 volt and couldn't find a different place to mount the alternator so I had to cut a hole in the hood and fabricate a "lump".  It's ugly.....  I never could get that tractor to charge on 6 volt, when I first got it, I'd just charge the battery every few uses and it was OK, but it seems like the later 6-volt batteries I get here wouldn't last a year.  

I've pretty much given up on the "old" H, the one Dad bought in about 1947 as his first and only tractor until about 1968.  I was about 10 then, he noticed that I was driving the tractor pretty good, so he bought another one (WD-45) so "we" could get more work done.  


Len Rugen

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     On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:24 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 No, I wasn't talking to any of the horses... I opened the little tool box on the Case VAC and it was filled with about a 20 year supply of paper wasps... I didn't know I could still move that quick.
:-)
A little wasp & hornet spray took care of them. I was just in that tool box about a month ago.
Yesterday I was doing some light work on my old Farmall Super M and found a small nest in it. I have not really used it for almost 2 years but I need to use the loader to move some stuff (still trying to get some stuff caught up). On the Super M wasp nest I grabbed a handy can and cleaned all of their little carburetors...
:-)
I'm trying to decide if I want to rebuild the generator and put on a new regulator and also replace a really tired starter or if I will just give in and convert it to a 12 volt system using a "one wire" conversion alternator. That old starter has a lot of go at 12 volts... One thing about these old Farmalls is that you can't even see the generator / alternator up under the hood like on a lot of tractors where it sticks out the side.
I used to have a Yanmar 1500 diesel that had a tiny alternator on it that was part of the fan. I wish that somebody would  make a small one wire alternator like that but stand alone that was small (and cheap) for conversions. A maximum output of about 6 amps or even less would be fine for anything I use. These days I start late and stop early and almost never need any lights.


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