[SEL] cleaning an engine

[Rob Skinner]

Jeff,
Both Gunk and oven cleaner will damage old paint.   Keep them away  
from your engine.  I like Simple Green and turpentine, depending on  
what I'm doing.  But keep in mind that even these can be damaging.   
Take your time and be gentle.

	
Rob Skinner
Antique Stationary Engines
La Habra, California

rob at rustyiron.com
www.rustyiron.com





On Sep 29, 2009, at 7:18 PM, jeff chattin wrote:

> The 8 hp Mogul is an engine I first saw when I was about 8 years old  
> and it took me about 26 years to get it. I turn it over many rounds  
> through the years to keep it from sticking. I've had it running a  
> few times (pulling a cut off saw) but I'm finally getting around to  
> cleaning it up. It has a good bit of paint under the grease and I  
> don't want to do anything to make it come off. Its a stationary  
> hopper cooled engine and the only thing I missing is the pot  
> muffler(anybody got an extra or a pattern).
>
>  We don't have many engines that have local history in our area  
> (North Georgia) and I'm trying to gather some of them up. The owner  
> of the mogul wanted it to stay in the area and he was grinning when  
> we first fired it up. He had it close to forty years and he had  
> never heard it run.