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Superb site, well done admin/members.

A member whom I recently bought a scrap/spares engine from recommended I join up. I am utterly new to stationary engines but aim to start by dismantling a Villiers and keep photographic/notes record. I'll update about any potentially viable spares I am happy to help-out other members if they are of use. It one ran on LPG. It has an enormous generator/dynamo? A unresolved as yet beast to detatch.

Spec from casing plate info.

No 152711. Mark C25 10 06


Not sure how to enclose photographs! I have several other projects I want to explore once I have gained confidence and experience. Removing stubborn flywheel/magnetos is a challenge - advice please?

Welcome sir

Hi John, welcome aboard.

Plenty of info in the projects section to give you some ideas.

How to upload photo's here: https://ukengineforum.forumotion.com/t9665-how-to-upload-images

As you're just a couple of miles away feel free to phone/text for advice/help.

Thanks, just discovered the procedure pages as I picked-up this message. As ever, learning the protocols treading carefully.
Again, thank you for kind offer of advice and help. Plenty to study and learn here. An enthusiastic forum!

Regards,

John

jkvambo wrote:


Not sure how to enclose photographs! I have several other projects I want to explore once I have gained confidence and experience. Removing stubborn flywheel/magnetos is a challenge - advice please?

Hello and welcome!

I you are talking about Villiers flywheels, DON'T try to stop it turning by wedging something in the fins, you will break a fin off. With the piston at BDC feed a length of thick string or cord through the spark plug hole (you'll probably need a couple of metres or so). Then turn the engine over slowly until it locks up. The flywheel retaining nut incorporates it's own puller. It's a conventional right hand thread, Whitworth spanner size (can't remember actual size off the top of my head). It will be tight, then go loose then tight again as it pulls the flywheel off the taper on the crank.

Very clever indeed! Valuable advice, wedging the fins seemed only course - obviously disastrous. Many thanks, will report back in due course.

JK

As mattblack says - don't use fins.
I have also used a piece of wood, shaped to support the flywheel, screwed to the bench with a piece of scrap leather in between.  I prefer to use a hex rather than bi-hex socket so that the flats take the strain rather than the corners. Give the handle a good clout with a mallet and, with luck, it should come free. It will turn a couple of times then tighten up again as the flywheel starts to slide off the shaft. Good luck.

Welcome to the forum Villiers are robust little engines i put a ring spanner on the flywheel nut steady the flywheel with my free hand and give the spanner a clout with my big wood mallet it as never failed,
Regards,
Chiefy.

Thank you all for generous suggestions. My friends at 71000 Duke Of Gloucester, Tyseley Loco Works, Bham, throughly enjoyed the stuffing-of-the-cylinder-pot-with string! I secured the exposed cylinder-head with wood and used a 24mm socket and hefty thump - odd how it tightens then eventually screws-off.

I have stripped as much as I can/have time for. Magneto technology is new territory and I am learning so much with forum contributions and the lesser wobbly YouTube uploads. Also needing to learn how to use multi-meter at long last. There are some bits that may be of use to people and they are welcome to them. Intact fin-flywheel. Flywheel casing - needs tlc paint job - the magneto casings are in good nick to my novice eye - damn heavy as well. I'm using photos and schematics to teach my self the fundamentals. Very clever concept. Regards to all - again an exceptional friendly and rewarding forum. Regards, JK

jkvambo wrote: <snip> ...Also needing to learn how to use multi-meter at long last....

I'm a sparky by trade so if you need any info, just post up.

Some of the settings can be a bit bewildering to someone learning

Very kind of you,

Regards,

JK