JCDammeyer's 42 projects

[jcdammeyer]

I was looking for a specific photo for a totally different project ran into these old ones. Making a heat sink for my sailboat voltage monitor.

Pouring 4 of them.

The result of the pour and installed on the module.

 

[Chicken lights]

Any pictures of the yacht?

 

[jcdammeyer]

Any pictures of the yacht?

This was it. An O'Day 28'.

The alternator/regulator failed and the alternator was a set of coils under the flywheel. It was easier to rebuild the front pulleys and add an alternator onto the front of the engine.
Which meant casting brackets,

Casting and machining pulleys.

All done on the Gingery Lathe before it was even finished.

 

[Chicken lights]

Nice! I've never sailed one that big.

Is what you're describing just a magneto?

 

[jcdammeyer]

Nice! I've never sailed one that big.

Is what you're describing just a magneto?

No it was a 3 phase alternator on the BMW Diesel. Magnets in the flywheel and stationary coils inside that area out to the regulator. Cost of repair parts was off the charts. A friend gave me a brand new tractor alternator and regulator that was originally intended for home built aircraft. Just had to make it fit.

We did our cruise and learn in Comox on a Catalina 27 in spring of 1985. Then bought the HotFoot 24 in summer of 86 after Expo 86. Sold it when we moved to The Netherlands in 1992. Bought the O'Day 28 when we moved to Victoria in 1997. Sold it when it got to the point where the resale value was less than one year moorage.

 

[David]

Sold it when it got to the point where the resale value was less than one year moorage.

Yup... feel this. One has to go into owning a boat knowing it's a losing proposition.
Just sold our Catalina on Wednesday. Didn't lose any money so happy days.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Is that a Datsun 510?
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Yes. And here's a better picture of it racing around an AutoSlalom course. The fuzzy haired driver is Linda.

We also had an '63 MGB with straight cut gears in first, over head valve 1800cc tractor engine with twin SU Carburators. No suspension modifications. You can't really see the rust on the rocker panels.

 

[trevj]

No it was a 3 phase alternator on the BMW Diesel. Magnets in the flywheel and stationary coils inside that area out to the regulator. Cost of repair parts was off the charts. A friend gave me a brand new tractor alternator and regulator that was originally intended for home built aircraft. Just had to make it fit.

We did our cruise and learn in Comox on a Catalina 27 in spring of 1985. Then bought the HotFoot 24 in summer of 86 after Expo 86. Sold it when we moved to The Netherlands in 1992. Bought the O'Day 28 when we moved to Victoria in 1997. Sold it when it got to the point where the resale value was less than one year moorage.

I was serving in the CF at Comox then! (1985!) VU-33 Squadron, I was fixing Trackers and T-33's.

Funny how close paths can cross without meeting! Had a friend that was crewing on a pretty large sailboat invited me out for one of their practice sessions. Was fun, but the money (that I didn't have)was way above my affordability, even trying to be crew, and the allure wasn't there as it need to be to have a fella pour all his spare coin into the hole in the water where the money goes....

Pretty much been my experience with glass slipper gliders, and several other avenues of burning money. LOL! Interesting enough, until you have to meet the price of admission. If it burns in your soul, no price will ever stop you. Sailing wasn't it for me!