Stationary Engines at Binton Crank Up 2023, plus some vintage cars, bikes and tractors too.

In this video we've got a small collection of Stationary Engines running at the Binton Crank Up 2023, held at Binton Social Club, Binton, Warwickshire. The stationary engines were a little thin on the ground this year, but there's a few clips of the massive motorbike ride in, along with some of the gorgeous classic cars and a small group of vintage tractors.
In the stationary engine section, we had my BSA 300 watt generator/charging set, a 1923 Bamford Tulip Top 2.5 HP with a Bamber butter churn, a 1920 Fairbanks Morse Z Type 1.5 HP with a 1920 Fairbanks Morse Typhoon pump, and a Lister D with a relatively unheard of Osborne Bros diaphragm pump.
Here are some links to the renovation videos for my BSA:
Part 1 • Military BSA 300 Watt ...
Part 2 • BSA 300 Watt Generator...
Part 3 • BSA 300 Watt Generator...
and some of my other stationary engine videos:
• Stationary Engines
Start 00:00
Fairbanks Morse 00:10
Bikes, Cars and Tractors 01:43
BSA Charging Set 02:20
Crikey, it's the rozzers 03:18
Bikes, Cars and Tractors 03:46
Bamford 04:32
Bikes, Cars and Tractors 05:48
Lister D 06:40
Bikes, Cars and Tractors 07:59
Outro 09:06
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[@iosmusicman]

Aside from the great footage Tim, the sounds are a superb tinnitus aversion therapy session. As a further aside, that bucket holds a good deal of water 😊 Cheers. Lee

[@GrumpyTim]

Yes Lee, it's a great distraction from the monotony of tinnitus, or at least it works for me anyway - there are other channels, like Bidone1967 that provide a similar service!!! That bucket would be very useful if you needed to carry some water from here to there, such an amazing capacity. I wonder if it deals with the gravity issue at the same time, that would be really handy......

[@enginelover1]

As always can not ask for a better video. Nicely edited as I aspect from you mate :) The BSA sounds great now. I like the good flow of that water pump belted to the fairbanks morse.

[@GrumpyTim]

Cheers, that's really kind - I wasn't totally happy with the footage I shot at the time, but it edited together into an ok video in the end. That Typhoon pump is really impressive, as you say, it's a really good stream of water coming out of the tap. Cheers for watching.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Looks like a decent show a little something for everyone Doubled up the silencers on the bsa?
Like the Espada.

[@GrumpyTim]

Yeah, I made an additional silencer with a different design inside - that one takes away most of the high pitched bark of the engine, and with the two it now has a nice little burble that doesn't drown out the other engines. Technically the Bamford next door was far louder, but as it only goes "pop" now and then, no one notices.
The Espada is one of those cars that made me go "wow" the first time I saw one, and I haven't lost that feeling when I see one now. The same happens with the Maserati Khamsin - both designed by Marcello Gandini, and both having that extra glass panel at the back that I love.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@GrumpyTim Hard to get an idea of how loud it is over the camera but it was definitely more muffled. Did you glass pack it or similar?
I don't think I know either of those names, Gandini or Khamsin, I'll have to brush up on Italian designers always thought the Mustang Mach 1 bears an uncanny resemblance to the Espada which is amusing as the engineering under the design couldn't have been more different, Detroit parts bin vs mustachioed old Italian men assembling one off carburetors on the kitchen table with a glass of wine and some cheese.
Just love those sharp lines and inset balloon tyres, the glass is cool as are those overhangs.

[@GrumpyTim]

I didn't do any glass packing, purely because I wasn't sure what and how much I should be using. Instead, there's a smaller diameter pipe inside the mig bottle (the same stuff that I used for the inner chamber on the last silencer), which has a plate welded to the outlet pipe, then the other end of said pipe is flattened out and welded shut to form a kind of fish tail, and lots of 4mm holes drilled into it for the gas to pass through. So the exhaust enters the mig bottle, expands a bit, then has to make it's way through the drilled fish tail before exiting and passing into the original silencer that I made.
Gandini was one of the designers working for Bertone at that time, so you can think of the Espada and Khamsin as Bertone designs. I agree, the Mustang Mach 1 does have a very similar feel about it - that's another one I love to bits, and as you say, a very different approach to the engineering. When I grew up, the Countach was the big name that everyone had a poster of, but many years later when I saw my first Espada, that became the one that I wanted.........or a Miura........

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@GrumpyTim ok, I can picture whats going on in the second can.
Had a little look on wiki, don't think it would be a stretch giving him the title king of the wedge.
Stratos certainly captured my imagination as a youngn despite it being old by then.
The Citroen bx was originally a design intended for Volvo though! Mind blown.

[@GrumpyTim]

Now the Stratos is more wedge shaped than a piece of cheese - if you forged a model of a Stratos out of steel you could probably use it to split logs!!! What a car, and nice to see some popping up in some of the classic rally events these days. I'd clean forgotten that the Citroen BX was a Bertone design, and I don't think I ever knew it was originally intended for Volvo, although I'm sure I'd heard about other designs that were initially penned for one manufacturer, before ending up with a completely different company.

[@ohjajohh]

They all sound great! Do you use an external mic for this or just the camera microphone?

[@GrumpyTim]

I always try to be vaguely inconspicuous when I'm filming engines that are on display so I just use the camera mic - it's not that great but so long as it's not windy it's not too terrible. I do have a home made wind muff taped over the microphones which helps a little bit. If I was using my external audio recorder I'd want to do a clap in front of the camera for each clip so I could sync them up during editing, and I think that would just look daft and maybe a little bit over the top. The ideal would be to use a camera that had external audio inputs, that way I could use a decent mic and not have to think about audio sync issues - maybe one day.......

[@BensWorkshop]

Do we recognise that BSA charging set? Nice show!

[@GrumpyTim]

Yep, I think we might just recognise the BSA from somewhere Ben.... It's a great little show, very relaxed, with cars coming and going all day long. I'd have liked to spend more time looking round the cars but I didn't want to shut my engine down (at times mine was the only one running as it was), and I was cautious about over charging the battery, if for instance the inverter (that was powering some of the lights) conked out, then it would just have pumped about 16 volts at around 12 amps into the battery continuously.

[@BensWorkshop]

@@GrumpyTim I can see that! Hope you had a good day.

[@GrumpyTim]

It was ace, and the predicted thunderstorm didn't arrive, which helped too!!!

[@BensWorkshop]

@@GrumpyTim Yes, I bet it did. There's a time and a place for thunderstorms and that show was not it.

[@GrumpyTim]

Yep, I love a good thunderstorm, but not so much when I'm in the middle of a big field with lots of stuff that I don't particularly want to get soaked.