Savage Salvage

[Judges]

Keep us posted on this ,,,sounds and looks interesting,,but,I
Like stinky smelly little spark-plug engines I immediately think,,propeller,,
Have you found the Fault yet?
As I Say,,Do Keep us up on what your doing with it,Regards

Joe in Texas

[z.monkey]

Judge,

There was a lot of varnish in the combustion chamber, and I suspect the carburetor looks the same way.  This one sat around a lot, and ran a little.  Also the fuel line was old and cracked, leaking.  A good cleaning and a tune up would probably make it sing...

I do have a great appreciation for any motor, and this one is pretty neat for it cheapness.  It has an ignition coil which is activated by the magneto on the flywheel.  It has an Iron Cylinder with a Steel sleeve as a bore.  The head is Aluminum, as well as the rest of the castings.  Also the crank is balanced, with a 1 piece connecting rod to the aluminum piston.  Neat little motor...

But, I feel a need to do something different with this alternator.  There are some problems there too.  The nose shaft on the alternator gets press fit into the crankshaft, so I would have to modify the nose casing, and the crankshaft to have a nose casing, bearing and shaft that I could couple to something else, like a impeller...

I'll let it fester in the back of my brain for a while, and see what pops out later...

[shylo]

Great stuff Z ......I have a 3000w geny but it quit working ,it has a breaker switch in it do you think, maybe the switch is f@#d,.....because it stopped putting out juice but the breaker never kicked?........you seem to know alot more about these kind of things than most....thanx for any input,......looking forward to your future postes............shylo

[XS-NRG]

thats a classic 2 stroke 70cc driven design with forced air cooling.
It's output is between 600 and 900 Watts usually.
And they normally run at 3000 Rpm 

[z.monkey]

thanx for any input,..  shylo

3KWs, huh...  Could be a lot of things, and there are not many specifics to deal with...

Brushes, Windings, Bearings, or Corrosion, who knows?  You gotta take it apart to find the fault...

Remember to unplug it first...