[SEL] O.T. Test now question about touch paper

Arnie Fero fero_ah at city-net.com
Wed Aug 12 05:33:39 PDT 2009


Hi Ray,

I vividly remember a bloke at the Lister-Petter rally who was cranking one of these.
 He watched the progression of that cog along the spiral track VERY carefully and
made DAMN sure the crank came out before the end of the spiral was reached.  8-))

See ya,  Arnie

On Wed, August 12, 2009 7:49 am, Ray Freeman - Portable Line Boring wrote:
> The main flywheel on the right hand side had a coarse thread on the outside
> edge.There was a steel wheel an inch or so in diameter that was connected to
> a normal looking poppet valve down in the head via a wire cable. For crank
> starting you sat the wheel in from the edge three threads.The idea was that
> in 3 revolutions of the cranking handle you had enough momentum built up
> that when the wheel dropped off the flywheel and closed the valve the engine
> would get over the compression and fire.Now and again it would fire half
> hearted and bounce off the next compression and start running backwards.For
> cartridge starting the wheel was put in just one thread and there was a mark
> on the flywheel to line up to ensure the piston was in the correct spot.
> Ray Freeman






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