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Restoration
OK. Let's get something out the way here and now. I am an idiot!!!
I have bought another engine.
Despite the fact that I have way too many things waiting for restoration already, despite the fact that I am running out of room, despite the fact that I have swore to myself I would not be buying any more until I did something to clear out some of the things I've already got......despite all that......
I bought another engine.
But at least it is a nice engine - a J.A.P. Model 4/3. ANd on a positive note - I don't already have one of those, and it fills a hole nicely in my J.A.P. Series of engines. I have a J.A.P. Models 0, 80 2A, 2S, 3 4/2, 5 and 6 - and of course now this model 4/3.
This engine was purchased while I was out working in Western NSW, and it has remained out there and I am working on it while am out there. It'll give me something to do. But having said that - I will be bringing things home to work on them back here in Sydney as well. (Not that I don't have a bazillion things to be working on here already)
As you will see from the photos, this little fella is read - but a cursory examination shows that it did not start its life red. Someone got carried away and just slapped red paint over pretty much everything. I can see from various spots that it started its life in a common J.A.P. colour. Im not sure what it's called, but its a light/pale blue with the tiniest amount of metallic speckle in it. It looks OK - in fact my J.A.P. 2A is done in that colour - but I have decided this one is going to get done red, but properly.
By "properly", I mean the cowl, Air Filter, triming etc will be red, but the crankcase will be bare alloy, which is (I think) how they were originally. Exhaust will be black, Carby plain alloy etc.
And just to support my claim that I am an idiot - when I first got this little fella home, I decided to check the spark. I did as I usually do and held on to the end of the spark plug lead and s-l-o-w-l-y gave the flywheel a turn. On a good magneto if you turn the flywheel around just slowly, you may feel just a little "tickle" from the spark plug lead. If you feel nothing, either the there is no spark, or the flywheel needs to be turned just a teeny bit faster. So that was the method I used - silly me - I didn't know that this model had an impulse system on the magneto......bang!!!! I got the full whack. Magneto is working find....... :)
