My AS2 escapades so far

The blue ex-baler was heat-seized due to a front seal oil leak, and a subsequent clogging of the cooling ducts and fins. And the red compressor-set mover has had a worklife as a light plant on a small fishing vessel, and obviously spent some time outdoors after it was taken out of service. I found it full of water and seized in rust.

The compressor is a 15hp V4 two-stage Devilbiss 445 from 1969 btw. I love these, they're an orgy in cooling fins and old school design, and made to last 30-50 000 hours between overhauls. The pressure tank is just an old stainless water heater tank.

Both engines are bored and completely gone through with a valve job, seals and gaskets, and refurbished pumps and injectors. Sandblasted and clearcoated aluminium. Sandblasted, zink-primed and RAL red and some blue metallic as a topcoat for the rest, all in 2k industrial paint. Heat resistant satin black for the manifold, heads and cylinders.

All the fasteners are stainless BSF, from Ralph at Motalia Ltd UK. Not peddling for him per se, but he was very helpful and made a couple of stud-dimensions to special order just for these.

Still lacking some detailing with a stainless exhaust and tanks, hopefully I'll get the time over the winter. They're mostly made as an excercise in prettying things up, and how far I could take it with my limited knowhow, tools and workshop facilities.

And I also have two good barely used singles to go through to the same standard as these, and this year I finally found no less than two good triples too. After years of searching without luck. One of them has barely been used and is in "as new" condition mechanically, as it was a back-up generator set with very limited runtime on it. The other was a waterpump on a farm and has seen some use, but runs smoke-free and nice on it's first oversize bore done before my time owning it.

The goal is to go through atleast one single and one triple over the winter, and a small JAP model 55 too if I find the time for it. Maybe I'll make a restoration thread on them, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

I know 'shiny shiny' is not everyone's cup of tea, but

I've just had to find my dark glasses to look at it

Maryalice

Very nice restorations Norseman. Isn't it odd how we can get fixated on a particular manufacturers engine ?

mattblack wrote:I know 'shiny shiny' is not everyone's cup of tea, but

Haha, their workclothes were nowhere to be found anymore, so I took a few liberties giving them a makeover. When I first put some efforts into something, I can't seem to stop until I've taken it as far as the circumstances allow. But I have fun doing it, in a compulsory sort of way.

maryalice wrote:I've just had to find my dark glasses to look at it

Maryalice

Must be the chromed pushrod tubes. An exhaust and a tank in polished 316 is in the works, we'll see. I did say compulsory... But fun! And sort of an excercise in how far I could push it.

blue cat wrote:Very nice restorations Norseman. Isn't it odd how we can get fixated on a particular manufacturers engine ?

Thank you. Yeah I first saw one advertised locally a few years back, and fell in love with it. It was since degraded to a parts engine of sorts, but it has a much wider and heavier flywheel than the rest for some peculiar reason, so I'm actually slowly collecting something here and there to put it back together again. By now I'm only lacking the base as it came without, probably been installed in a boat I think.

And like many others I have a slight hoarding instinct  And since I have gotten to know their inner workings so to speak, I almost feel responsible to save and preserve them once they show up. I dare not tell how many I have by now. But a goal from the start was to have one of each, 1-2-3 cylinders. And I doubled that, and then some. The twins are somewhat easy to find, the singles a little harder, but the triples... Don't show up too often, to put it that way. And just out of the blue this last year, I came across two, both from estates.

So the winter is occupied and will be spent in the workshop if everything goes to plan, but that's the point of it anyway. I can only take that much reality, makeover shows and bridezillas

Nice work Erik - nothing wrong with a bit of bling now and again.
Whereabouts are you, if you don't mind me asking?

Woodsman wrote:Nice work Erik - nothing wrong with a bit of bling now and again.
Whereabouts are you, if you don't mind me asking?

Thank you. I'm in southern Norway, around 150 km's east of Oslo on the swedish border.

Ah, thank you. I spent many happy hours working in Grimstad a little more south. Lovely place and lovely people.

Woodsman wrote:Ah, thank you. I spent many happy hours working in Grimstad a little more south. Lovely place and lovely people.

Glad you enjoyed it there, haha on the southern riviera. I just passed through there on a roadtrip to go and pick up yet another JAP 55, of which I also have more than a couple. A couple of times each year I get bored, and have to find an excuse for a little excursion in the car. Good thing I have some storage space here in the woods. Or had

I too have spent quite some time in Norway, mostly Stavanger and Bergen. There's a very nice unknown make engine in the Stavanger canning museum if you are in the area.

blue cat wrote:I too have spent quite some time in Norway, mostly Stavanger and Bergen. There's a very nice unknown make engine in the Stavanger canning museum if you are in the area.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I have only vaguely heard of the canning museum. It must be 25 years ago since I visited any of those cities, but back then I had a job servicing some cargo alarm systems on tanker vessels so I flew there for work now and then.

Never visited Great Britain either, even though the job also took me to a few ports both in Europe and Asia. I would love to see it and some of the museums, canals and victorian installations, but I got somewhat tired of travelling after too many long flights. Not much of a city boy really either, I prefer the quiet rural life.

And I'm not gonna take their corona-potion, under any circumstances, so my out-of-country travelling days might just be over. We'll see.