[SEL] Another engine running

[Wayne Thackery]

Greetings Harry,

Glad to hear you have gotten it to run! I have both the 2 and 3 HP IHC
Verticals in both the air cooled and hopper cooled and have yet to have any
trouble like you have described. Is your intake valve seating all the way
closed? I also have a few engines that I run on propane and have great luck.
You'll get it figured out. Stick with it!

Wayne A Thackery

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of Harry
Terpstra
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:51 AM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: [SEL] Another engine running


Hi all,

Saturday we had our 2HP vertical air-cooled International Famous running.
It's running very nice, and only needed little "fine tuning"
The problem is that it's very much "snottering" from the carburettor.
Every time it has an intake stroke, it snotters gas out of the mixer (air
intake)
It is so bad that painting the engine will be pointless as it will damage
the paint within a few hours.

Since I REALLY hate leaking or splattering engine's we tried something
different today.... Propane......
Well it really seems to work, it's running very nice (after a short warming
up) and every time it can coast 12 times.
The engine is has very good compresion, and really is in top condition
(we're lucky this time;-)
We did have allot of work making allot of parts for it though.
many of the xternal parts were missing.

Is there anyone on the SEL that has an air-cooled Famous, or any other
experiance with snotering from the mixer?

However expect for this problem I'm very happy to have it running this
great!



H.Terpstra
Sint Anna Parochie
Netherlands
h.terpstra at wxs.nl
http://home01.wxs.nl/~terps027/home.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Tonneberger" <flywheelin at hotmail.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 2:00 AM
Subject: RE: [SEL] A pair of Economy Engines


> I like the color Dave. I bet the red striping will really set it off. Once
> they are finished and on carts, wheel them out into the sunshine. The red
on
> the decals will probably get picked up better by the camera in some
natural
> light.
>
> Luke Tonneberger
> Rockford, Michigan
> USA
> ==============
>
> >From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
> >Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >Subject: [SEL] A pair of Economy Engines
> >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:52:33 -0800
> >
> >I posted a while back about restoring a couple of Hercules built Economy
> >engines and painting them something different than usual, like yellow.
One
> >person said he had stomach problems over it, so now there are two to look
> >at!
> >Still have skids and carts to build along with some red pinstriping, but
I
> >think they surely will draw comments at the shows they will be attending.
> >pics at
> >  http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=3009545
> >
> >Under Bob's Hercules and Hercules Restoration albums.
> >
> >Dave
>
>
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