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Request for advice - Miller dynamo problems
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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 4290" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Following Len's comments I thought I would go out to my workshop where my old sprint engine, complete with Miller dynamo and PD16 lurks. No way I could get the PD16 off by hand but as soon as I put a puller on it, it came loose. It has been sitting there for more than 40 years since I sprinted and for the several years whenI was sprinting. I must have been lucky so listen to Len and see if you can get a small puller in there and take off the PD16 or somehow wedge the dynamo shaft and get a nylock nut on there. A question. Why would anyone want to continue to use a Miller dynamo? Is this a question of originality? They were unreliable 50 years ago and almost everyone changed over to Lucas regulators and then to Lucas dynamos (series'D's). With a total potential power output of 50 W they are hardly the thing to be using in modern traffic. Many a night I used to have to ride home without lights, only switching them on when other vehicles appeared. I remember one night passing a whole bunch of late night, unlit party returnees on a quiet country road who must have thought that they were about to be devoured by an invisible roaring, clattering demon as I hurtled past. Modern traffic conditions are not condusive to such youthful indiscretions!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 4290, member: 456"] Following Len's comments I thought I would go out to my workshop where my old sprint engine, complete with Miller dynamo and PD16 lurks. No way I could get the PD16 off by hand but as soon as I put a puller on it, it came loose. It has been sitting there for more than 40 years since I sprinted and for the several years whenI was sprinting. I must have been lucky so listen to Len and see if you can get a small puller in there and take off the PD16 or somehow wedge the dynamo shaft and get a nylock nut on there. A question. Why would anyone want to continue to use a Miller dynamo? Is this a question of originality? They were unreliable 50 years ago and almost everyone changed over to Lucas regulators and then to Lucas dynamos (series'D's). With a total potential power output of 50 W they are hardly the thing to be using in modern traffic. Many a night I used to have to ride home without lights, only switching them on when other vehicles appeared. I remember one night passing a whole bunch of late night, unlit party returnees on a quiet country road who must have thought that they were about to be devoured by an invisible roaring, clattering demon as I hurtled past. Modern traffic conditions are not condusive to such youthful indiscretions!! :cool: [/QUOTE]
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