On 13, Apr 2007, at 19:18, J.R.Alsop wrote: > Having worked a JP3 in a Bantam tug for the last two years the best > advice that I can give is give it a good thrashing!.
What's that then, a motorbike ? > get the low compression out and give it hell, a big engine like that > does not like popping along firing at every other bridge hole!. If you > want to see how a good one runs come and see one pushing a 100 ton > load load, thats what they like.Give me a call. Where is it then ? By the way Uncle Mort's engine hasn't been run that much in the last 6 months - perhaps 30 hours. But they were all on the Severn and G&S canal and were mostly at about 3/4 full speed. Now that may well be a throttled back speed - I checked UM with Mr Millin's bespoke mobile rev counter and I think the max recorded on the speedwheel stops was little over 1000 rpm. So perhaps 800 rpm isn't a really good outing after all. Thanks for the advice JR. Beeky
