[SEL] Factory Hot Tube Ignition

[fero_ah at city-net.com]

G'day Russell,

Damn, that sounds like an engine designer's sick joke.  8-))
Do you have any close-ups of the flyball governor & pendulum area?
I'm having trouble trying to picture how it all would work together.

How far away is completion of this project on your "list"; you mentioned the
next National?

See ya,  Arnie

Arnie Fero
Pittsburgh, PA
fero_ah at city-net.com

Quoting Russell Gilbert <russell at ncable.com.au>:

> Rob they really are a great looking engine. the top shaft is a side 
> shaft running the flyball governor only. The movement of the flyball 
> works the pendulum engaging the push rod to work the rocker arm. I 
> have not seen one running and will be fun getting this one restored. 
> It would seem that the engine will be a hand full to set up with fuel 
> flow needing to be spot on, the flyball govenor tension right, and 
> then the adjustment of the weight of the pendulum. All that while 
> learing about constant flame hot tube ignition.
> 
> At 04:39 PM 8/12/2007, you wrote:
> >Man, that's a beautiful hunk of iron, Russell.  I can't quite tell
> >from the picture, but is your Campbell governed off a pendulum on the
> >bottom pushrod, or a flyball off the upper shaft?
> >
> >On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Russell Gilbert wrote:
> > > Arnie I have a 6hp Campbell that has hot tube ignition, roughly
> > > about 1909??
> > > http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2469500470036399874CPItML
> > > I must get some better pics of it up at some point. I will be putting
> > > great effort into getting this one restored for the next Aussie
> > > National rally.