desperado

Well, so much for trusting someone elses sugjestion. The guy that sold me the start capacitors sold me ones that were rated for 165 volts. Said they would be fine. I sent smoke signals with it tonight. The caps cooked, and they ALWAYS smoke to beat hell when you fry them. So I got some parts on order that are of the correct voltage (250) and I will get it back together and running soon.

Someone needs to find an old oven sitting that the oven part works in. Then we could paint them with VHT paint and bake em like it says to and get the paint to stay on for a while.

First thanks,,, Second, yeah you sort of have it right. I have the big MIG welder that i can use right now. But if I find a three phase CNC mill or lathe, I only need to haul it home and connect it to the 3 phase power, instead of theneed to replace all the motors with single phase one and in the case of a CNC unit, deal with any of the power supplies that are 3 phase that run the numerical control. And like I said before, stuff like this gets sold at auctions for pennies on the 100 dollar because most people can't just take it home and plug it into the wall.

Na AEP hates me. I looked at setting 3 phase at the shop at one point. $5000 to put it in and $200 minimum monthly bill for the electric. I will say that the startup is a bit intense, and dims the garage lights pretty bad, but I still have some values to tune on the start capacitors. But the idle current draw is about 3 amps, so having the motor running draws less than my refigriator. Now once I start welding with it and running other stuff, it's current draw will increase the load for sure. But because it's 3 phase load and not single phase it doesn't draw as much, that's why factories use 3 phase. You have to remember that with single phase, the power drops to 0 twice per cycle. With 3 phase there is always power because there is always a voltage potential between 2 of the 3 legs at all times. It's sort of hard to explain without being able to graph it out. But if you know what a sine wave looks like from either trig class or from any electronics work you have done. Single phase 220 (actually its 2 phase but no one calls it that) are two sine waves 180 degrees out of phase of each other. Each phase is 110 volts RMS. So as the phases hit their peak RMS voltage the potential between then is 220 Volts RMS. But when they cross the 0 voltage line there is NO potential (voltage) between them. With no voltage there is no current flow and what ever you are driving freespins (motor) With 3 phase there are 3 lines or phases that are at 220 volts RMS between any two phases at peak and becasue the three phases are at 120 degrees of phase shift and not 180 there is always voltage potential between two of the three phases at all times and hence the ability for current flow which is the torque so to speak of electicity. It's like conpairing a two stroke motor and a 4 stroke motor. A two stroke motor fires every time the piston reaches the top of the cylinder. It has less pumping loss and only has to be kept spinning until the piston reaches the top again. A four stroke fires once every other time the piston hits TDC, it make one full revolution on stored power in the flywheel using only inertia to carry it around. This would be considered single phase basically. Now while you can't create something from nothing, you cal lie to what measures the power you are using. The meter on the side of my house is designed for single phase, and that's what it reads. Because I am shifting the phases around, the single phase current is lagging behind the voltage changes as it alternates. The meter is designed to read single phase and not 3 phase, so for it to read correctly it beed the voltage potential and the current to be the same, not the current lagging behind the voltage. It's called meter droop. Newer meters take it into account and will measure it, but the older spin type meters don't have that ability. The other think I am doing is placing alot of capacitance across the 220. Most EVERYTHING that you have at home is a inductance type load. That goes from a record player to an electric furnace. The capacitance cancels the inductance on my side of the meter and again will balance the load. Here again, it's not expected so it's not designed to spin faster. Now I don't want anyone to get some idea that I am stealing power here. That ain't the case. I am just converting it into a more efficent power that due to the increased efficency I use less than if I went out and bought the same size motors or welders that were single phase and ran them off the standard household electric.

I finally got 3 phase power in the garage at home. I did some swapping and ended up with a large 3 phase motor and abunch of parts that I turned into a rotary phase convertor. What it does for those that have never heard of one is it takes regular single phase 220 and makes it 3 phase by using the windings in the running motor and the run capacitors that are connected between the motor leads. This makes it possible to run most any 3 phase piece of equipment that has less than a 40 amp draw (which is set by the size of the motor). I also ended up with a rather large 3 phase industral MIG welder with seperate wire feeder. (For some idea of the size, the power supply weighs 600 lbs and the seperate wire feeder is as big as as a run of the mill 85 amp wire feed welder that is self contained). While this may sound a bit overboard, consider that I can run high dollar industrial equipment that is all but given away at auctions because most people see that it's 3 phase and turn away from it because it will not run on standard household power.

Not to nitpick. but I am really curious as to how you can tell that the proper torque was not set on the rod bolts on the rods that were thrown? Typically if a bearing spins for ANY reason on a rod it stretches the cap. Now it would seem to me that if you did some real damage, and actually threw a rod through the side of the block or something, which is what it sounds like. There would only be pieces left of the big ends of the rods and not a full end to check torque on. Could someone please explain this to me so that I havea better understanding of how this happens so if I ever see it I will recognize it.

I am looking for a Simpson helmet. The model of the helmet is The Desperado. Jegs' gets $500 for one so I figured that I would ask first and see if anyone here had one they would part with.

Larry I am interested in the helmet, do you typically come out to the geeros meets or are you on the east side so we can get together and I can look at it?

There will be others.

Your ethnic background is irrelivant. It says NO Racial slurs. And you are referring to me with a racial slur.

If you are wanting a track thats well prepaired go to Pacemakers. It's an 1/8 mile, so they see fewer oil downs, the track is very sticky and well preped because 1/8 mile cars are geared lower and tend to launch harder. The trap speeds are not as impressive, but unless you drive a real dog, you can get a sub 10 sec timeslip to brag with. The test and tune almost every Friday night and it's closer than Norwalk. www.pacemakersdragway.com

Gee, we get true colors here. Not only do you threaten me but you decide to use racial comments, all in the same post. I figured you would have better sense than that.

So is this gone then for sure??

Like killing people. "something Desperado said but the piece of shit UBB didn't leave in my post" Without trying to offend you too much, I'd never let her, nor would she, date a redneck.... I won't finish that setence. Dude, I really have no interest in dating your sister. Hell man, I am most almost old enough to be her dad if's she's really underage. But you seems to get so twisted about it I couldn't pass it up. I was just being an ass in that post. I know Eli and Anthony, and they are both standup guys (even if Anthony did put wire loom all over his motor and make me a mod he's still a nice guy) The idea that they were pissed at each other sort of threw me because I hear that they have been friends along time and letting Bullshit that involved RICKY of all people come between then is silly.

John, Something that I forgot to mention. With livestock that are not going to be slaughtered within a short amount of time are required to have blood tests for certain things. This is a state regulation, but all states have the same thing pretty much. I realize this is a pet and not livestock but you might want to look into it. I doubt that they can simply ship it in and if there has been no discussion between you and the seller about how is going to pay for the fees for importing the animal then you will get that bill too. You might want to know what that's gonna cost before you commit because it might be more than the dog is going cost you.

Hmmm, interesting thread. Lets see what we've learned. 1. Anthony has a temper and uses bad judgement from time to time pertaining to shit concerning the board. (this isn't really anything new, remember that he made ME a moderator at one point, proving that his judgement is questionable at times.) 2. Eli is a type of guy to accept admissions of people that use poor judgement and their applogies and let shit go. 3. Eli pointed out that Anthony has some of THE GAYEST LOOKING green wire loom all over the engine in his car. (Again, we all knew about the gay assed wireloom, at least anyone that has been within 50 feet of Anthonys car when the hook was opened. I Assume that he doesn't back his car into the garage any more because people driving down the street would roll by and see the hood up and laugh their asses off, making comments that it looked like something a 15 yr old kid would do to a car.) But we did learn that he is going to wise up and get rid of the geyness. Then again, even as gay as it looked it's still on a 10 sec car, but wasnt that gey assed thing in the fast and the furious a 10 second car too???? 4. We learned that Jesse has a sister that is underage and hot. 5. We learned that Jesse doesn't like anyone commenting about how hot his sister is and how there are a number of people that want to get with her. All in all a very informative post, I guess. BTW, just how old is your sister there Jesse?

Sam, did you ever get your fill station??? If you did try to pickup a couple CO2 20 LB cylinders like they use for soda fountains. The neck is th same as the older style nitrous tanks so you would only need to get a valve and a siphon tube. Bars will typically give you these if they changes from Pepsi to Coke and the tanks were not picked up. Valves are $50 or so bucks at Jegs leaving only the need to fab a siphon tube. CO2 is stored at 2000 PSI and N2O is at 1100 on the high side so the tanks are quite capable. The biggest reason that you need a fill station to do this is guys that fill N2O typically have NO idea about tanks. If it doen't look like a NOS, Edelbrock or Compucar tank they will not fill it. Hell, some quick sanding and blue paint and a NOS tank sticker and you got it licked.

John, I don't believe that with wire transfer that you can do much if she doen't send the dog, especially since it's overseas. CAll Western Union and verify that, but I believe that's the case.

Damn, just ... Damn.

Right.. If that add is right it will go for 90 or so. It claims that the car is unrestored. The only thing I saw as far as molestation to the car was the stainless exhaust, not factory or even a reasonable attempt. Other than the front pinion seal needing changed, some minor touchup on the undercarriage and that half ass exhaust system that needs cut out and replaced with real factory stuff. That is a trophy car, and its never been restored, that right there makes it worth way more than 60.

I can't speak to teh legality of it. But you need to consider the fact that when you blow by the rice boys and they get over behind you don't let off. If you do chances are when they run up under you, you are going to give the nose of their car a gasoline bath.

OK, Nitrous and Nitromethane are never a real good mix to begin with. So lets do it on a motor that turns 28000 RPM (yes, its that many zeros) That's a bunch of bucks to spend for no more that it will get you. It's cool and all, but going up to a 40% fuel will do the same thing. After all Nitrous oxide is 36% oxygen content, at least that what is liberated from it during combustion. Nitromethane is 53% oxidizer, so there is more oxygen in nitro than nitrous. What someone needs to figure out is how to safely add hydrazine into the mixture. This was tryed in top fuel years ago. After a few engines blew apart idling in the pits and hurt people NHRA banned the stuff. Biggest problem with it, other than its ridiculously explosive is that it's very highly controlled because it's a main ingredient in alot of explosives. But it would make one hell of a octane booster, if you could figure out hhow much you could get away with using without blowing apart the motor in your car.

Yeah, it is what you said. I just said it different. Layman's terms.

Do you still have this, and would you be interested in swapping it for an RC 10 GT gas remote controlled truck with starter box and all the stuff needed to make it go?? If not it's a free bump

Digital meters will show weird shit like that because they don't apply any load to the circuit. It sounds like something has happened with the switch and you are seeing the twelve volts feeding through a light bulb or something like that. Once you connect the wire to the compressor clutch the load increases and the voltage drops to 0. Try connecting the wire to the clutch, and turn on the AC switch. I figure that the little light in the switch will light up. Then disconnect the wire from the clutch. If I am right the light on the switch will go out even though its turned on. If that's the case, and you have power in the dash at the switch the switch is most likey bad. The way to tell is to reconnect the clutch and see if the twelve volts goes away at the switch feed, if it stays at 12 volts then it's the switch for sure. Make up a jumper and jump the connection from the feed of te switch out to the compressor clutch to verify this.