Recent content by BalkaRoo

Yes, fuel company's such as Shell, BP, Mobil, Ampol, etc have had trucks that delivered both bulk, pumped into overhead tanks and also dropped off 44 imperial gallon drums (50 gal US) onto farms for "decades". Back when I was young, almost all the fuel was delivered in drums, and the fuel...

Yes, you are right about such things as "ceiling fans" being expensive in 32 V, I have only ever seen one set, and that was in a "mansion" owned by a "Very" well off family. They also had 2 top of the wazza generator sets. 1920s Willys Knight-light sleeve valve engine and generators sets...

I asked "AI" and he/she recond that all the B9 models including the 32 volt type were ball races. Don't know if I believe it or not, sometimes the AI just repeats miss information, but looking at the motor it looks like it most likely "is" ball races so I think I will leave it alone. Looking at...

They were actually situated at least 20 or 30 feet away from the house so they wouldn't set the house alight in case of a fire, and also because of the noise. We actually had a fire with the "original" lighting plant that damaged but didn't "destroy" the engine room. That engine was a 2 1/2 HP...

A lot of Australian farms never even got 32 volt power until the late 1940s, although available from the 20s on, it was too expensive for the average person to afford so remained the preserve of the "well off". Mains power was rolled out in the late 60s up until the 1980s. Local towns had large...

The 32 volt DC power plant was a 4 HP Diesel with a direct coupled 1500 watt generator charging a battery bank of single cell batteries, we did have a "rotary inverter", basically a single unit with a DC motor on one end and a 240V alternator on the other end, which from memory was 240volt 750...

It's got just a flat elasticised belt that runs around the pulleys on the brush shafts and then up around the drive spindle on the motor and back to pully line again. It looks like it should have a "stretchy" belt so it can get tension on the "fixed" pulleys as there are no adjusters that I can...

I got it apart, and the problem was just the belt. It was rotten, but intact when I got it apart but incorrectly installed with the belt running around the drive pulleys, but "not" being taken up around the motor drive shaft, so "no drive". I suspect my "mum" tried to replace it and didn't...

I just went out and cleaned it, and found the ID plate under the handle tilt area, so on the plate reads- Model B9 Ser 0 (Ithink, but could be C or G, its a bit damaged) Number ME 0078742 Volts 32 Watt 250 Mum would have purchased it about 1964, but I don't know if it was new or second hand...

G'Day blokes, from Western Australia. It's a very interesting site you have here! I am wondering if I can get some help from some of you with an old, "very old", early to mid 1960s three brush, made in Australia, Electrolux domestic scrubber polisher. This was my mum's unit purchased I would...