[AT] Whoa!!!!!!

[charlie hill]

generator is better anyway Carl.  It will run without a battery!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Carl Gogol
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 1:37 PM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] Whoa!!!!!!

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

-----Original Message----- 
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
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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

rugenl at yahoo.com





     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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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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