[SEL] old engines on Propane question

[John Hammink]

Hi Harry, Steve and all,

You may save yourself the trouble, I got a nice picture of our
well known propane gas regulaters in stock. It can be seen at:
http://www.oldengine.org/members/hammink/regulater.jpg

The RED regulater is for the pressure and the BLUE one is for
demand or as we say here "sucking valve".
When starting the engine you push the brass botton on the BLUE
one and the gas flows to the engine, the engine starts to run and 
every inlet stroke an amount of gas flows to the inlet side. When
the engine stops the valve closes and there's no further harm.
These regulaters are very scarce at the moment here cause more
and more engine man switch over to use gas for their engines.
Originally all those regulaters come from the UK, they were used
on the Listers, Wolseleys etc. and mostly for milking units.

Ps. Visited Harry and his Dad Lieuwe this afternoon and had a
great time playing with their new 2 hp vert. air cooled Famous
and running on propane of course.

Regards,
John Hammink
Anna Paulowna, Netherlands.
jg.hammink at quicknet.nl
www.oldengine.org/members/hammink/web




> Hi Steve,
> 
> Very nice job!!!
> I also like the way you hide the propane tank.
> I think in the US you have different gas regulators than we have here.
> I'll make a picture of our type tomorrow, and I can send it to you (or maybe
> to the SEL?)
> 
> I also see that you have a Blackstone vertical.
> We have one, but it's just a little diffrent than yours. Ours is a parafine
> engine. You can see pictures of it here:
> http://home01.wxs.nl/~terps027/blackstone.htm
> I guess yours is gasoline only? You did a GREAT job!!
> Oh could you pass on the address that suplied you the information?
> 
> TTYL,
> 
> Harry Terpstra