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Lena looked at the boxes of wooden flooring planks in the hall then turned her attention to my engine sitting proudly on the workbence and said "have you finished that thing now?" followed by "what is it for anyway" ... This means 'time is up'!  Well she was working today so i ripped off some of the skirting in the living room and half the carpet to assess how much of a task it is going to be, and make it look like i made an effort 

Did the washing too, cleaned the carpet in the office, then hurried off into the workshop to play 

Despite the broken crank the engine still ran to a fashion.  Without the govenor it had a real bark and sounded rich but would cut if i tried to lean it out, re-maching the inlet valve collar to add more sping tension fixed that, infact it fixed it too well, the next run saw it rev to about 2000rpm and i just managed to shut it off before one of the flywheels came shooting off the end of the crank.  Remember the wobbly flywheel? i had to machine a bit more off the rim to true it so it was slightly narrower.  Well the flywheel that jumped off was the straight one so while it was off i turned it to the same size as the smaller one and made a new locking collet using the know how i gained from the ex-wobbly flywheel.  I think 2000 rpm is a 'bit' much so i need to remake the carb with a smaller venturi.

I put the governor back on and tried it in hit and miss mode.  The crank needs to be replaced as one of the crankpin solder joints has failed hence the wobbling flywheels and i need to make a muffler.



Thank you all for the support and following along
Ade