[SEL] Good engine day

[John Hammink]

Hi Harry,
   That's good news to hear you overwon the troubles you had.
Don't know what sparkplug you used, but would suggest a D21
from Champion these are best for propane firering is my experience.

C-ya,

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


> 
> Yesterday we had a good engine day.
> After some trial and error trying to get the Vertical air-cooled IHC Famous
> going without snottering from the carburettor, we changed over to propane.
> This too needed quite some fine tuning.
> It was very hard to start, and after lots af headscratching we tried another
> sparkplug, and it's startning with only one pull through compression.....
> Seems we always were looking at the wrong end to find the problem.
> 
> Anyway this mornig we started it up at around 9.45am, and it has been
> running flawless up until 4.15pm.
> The engine will stay on propane!!
> 
> We also worked on our vertical Japy. We orederd new piston rings for it, and
> this morning we put them on the piston and put the (headless) cylinder back
> on the engine. It all turns over very nicely. I know we're still far from
> having it running. (the magneto needs to have the coil rewind) but it was
> much fun putting it back together.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Harry Terpstra
> Sint Annaparochie
> Netherlands
> h.terpstra at wxs.nl
> http://home01.wxs.nl/~terps027/home.html
> 
> 
> 
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