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  1. 10th April 2011, 05:23 PM #1
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    Ok as promised I was going to start a thread on a slabber project. The thoughts have been mulling in my head for a LOOONNNGGG time. One of the main problems I have faced is the fact that raising a young family and such the funding for my hobby has been fairly minimal, so a new motor has really been out of reach for the project and I have had to prioritise what equipment has been more essential (new chainsaw gobbled up the hobby funds for last year.) So I have managed to scrounge a couple of 8 horse briggs and stratton vertical shaft motors, one complete, one good for parts to make a goer of the other one. They are electric start motors but at the moment the starter is absent however the bloke I got them off of is going to chase the starter for me. So at the moment it might not look like much but it is a start. Over the next few weeks I will try to amass the steel and such that I need and try to find a centrifugal clutch and such to make it doable. Any how no pics means it didn't happen right so check em out below.
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  3. 10th April 2011, 10:35 PM #2
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    Gotta start somewhere and a couple of scrounged motors is a start, I assume you'll pull them apart an give the good one a rebuild


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    Good luck with it Travis, look forward to watching the progress
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  5. 11th April 2011, 06:46 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by pjt View Post
    Gotta start somewhere and a couple of scrounged motors is a start, I assume you'll pull them apart an give the good one a rebuild


    Pete
    Certainly will be doing that Pete, Thankfully where I work we deal in a lot of the briggs stuff so whatever I can't do I will get our small engine mechanic on to. The white one turns over well and has good compression so thats the one I reckon that will get the spruce up.
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    Travis

    What size bar are you hoping to run with these motors? Lucas standard slabber is 1500mm but they use a 16HP motor to drive it.

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    Planning on about 42 inch (1065mm) bar with approx 39 inch (990 mm) maximum cut at this stage. I figure that if a ms660 magnum can drive that with about 7.6 hp an 8 hp four stroke should be able to. Will make it so that I can upgrade to a bigger bar and motor at a later date as funds permit.
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    This will be good another interesting work in progress.
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