Wagyu Porterhouse and two Wagyu ribeyes

done the other porterhouse at work last night, wrapped in foil, in the pie warmer 3 hours, seared on the sandwich press, cut like butter

the wife and I had 4 teas and a lunch of it all

5.5 kW, powered by 13 hp Honda clone (I know I said 10 on another thread, mistake)

The compression release was jammed, couldn't spin it with the starter motor and couldn't pull it through by hand fast enough to start it.

These days it's easy to find out that this is a known failure mode with Honda one lungers and their clones, there is fine clearance between the weighted arm that swings out as revs rise and the cam drive gear, this can get jammed by small bits of crap.

Repeated soaking in diesel and blasting with compressed air finally dislodged a couple of carbon fragments and a staple sized piece of plastic from that small space. With those out, the weighted arm move out freely and came back under its spring tension, and retracted the pop up ramp next to the lobe of the exhaust cam that acts as the decompressor.

So back together it went, and worked.

And take the brush holder out of the stator housing before refitting the stator over the armature or its likely you'll break the brushes like I did. They're freely available online for about $25 and postage from China, haven't found a local supplier yet.

One more thing, the general build quality in the Chinese clone motor looked pretty good, no wear on the cam lobes or cam follower faces, crankcase ball bearings spinning freely with no play, no free play in the bigend bearing. It's had a lot of use, with an annual oil change with Penrite HPR30.

Apparently the brush sets are common to both Honda machines and most of the clones, if it looks like this, it will fit.

So I spent my $16 in this country, and didn't have to wait a few weeks for international postage.

The brushes instal with one bolt, then 2 bolts on the end cover. So, all done, I have a working back up generator again.

I just cooked tea, chicken breast, garlic, tomato and soy sauce, with garlic butter broccolini and cherry tomatoes

less than $10 and 30 minutes cooking

just have to give it a go, Japanese A5 Wagyu

and comparing it against the Aussie Wagyu Ribeye

I'm night shift, this week, 14.5 hour so no time to cook, next friday will be it, my mate had a slice and he said it was the best meat he had ever had, this was his

had a slice of the 5A Japanese wagyu, garlic broccolini, par steamed then fried potatoes and carrots, the meat is worth every cent

I have never had a more tender, buttery piece of steak, absolutely amazing

the wife and I shared it, a quarter each, we will have the rest for lunch tomorrow

just to follow up, the reheat for lunch, the wife bunged it in the microwave, still the most tender chunk of meat ever, 

I would highly recommend that if you had the funds for a try, don't give it miss, even as a once off, I reckon it was worth it

Spent Sunday morning doing burn over drill with the crew, practising in case we have to ever do this.we got it down to 45 seconds, out of the truck, drip torches and spare fuel drums off and put downwind (thrown in an emergency), pump on, beacons and siren on, all back in the truck, air con on max on recirculate, windows closed, reflective shades rolled down, cab deluge sprays on, huddled down below window level under fire blankets with helmets on, visors down, smoke masks and gloves on, red red red radio call made.

We shaved 30 seconds off it with practice. Hope we never have to do it for real.

The wheelie bin in the clip doesn't last long does it? Thanks to Dunmore RFB for the clip.

Must be fuckin terrifying. 

Fortunately I've never had to do it for real, Obi Obi is blessed with 1 to 1.5 metres of rain a year, although we did manage to melt the plastic bullbar on our Nissan Patrol fire truck once. Where I live now in the upper Brisbane Valley only gets about 2/3 of that, so bush and grassland gets dryer, and soil moisture levels get way lower. Twice last year I rocked up to grassfires in pretty heavily grazed paddocks and was very surprised by how hard they were to control, like working along the fireline as fast as you can go while  still putting it out, and the head of the fire is racing to the horizon way faster than you're rolling up the back of it. That's when you start radioing for more trucks and air support.

Any one who's reckons theyre not shit scared in a burnover is either crazy or has no imagination, hope my mob never has to do it for real.