[SEL] ~RE: No Spark on John Deere Model E

[Elden]

George:

I'm sorry if I treated you like a newbie.  I didn't know that you
were familiar with flywheel engines.

Good luck and let us know when you get it running.

Take care - Elden
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On
> Behalf Of Best,
> George
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:51 PM
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> Subject: [SEL] ~RE: No Spark on John Deere Model E
>
>
> Elden,
>
> Your post reminded me that many many years ago when I
> was first getting into engines I bought a 3hp John
> Deere locally.  It was missing the factory magneto and
> the owner of the engine had been trying to run this
> ignitor engine off a battery and "buzz" coil! They had
> bought a real nice engine buzz coil, not an old Model
> T Ford coil.
>
> Anyway, the engine was cheap as they couldn't get it
> to run and were giving up on it.  So I got the engine
> which was in pretty nice shape, plus the buzz coil
> they had been using to no avail.
>
> Got it home and pulled out an old auto coil I had
> laying around as I had no low tension coils, and
> hooked up the one side like you mentioned in your
> posting and had the engine running fine in a few
> minutes!  So I ended up with a running 3hp JD, plus
> had a nice engine buzz coil that I found a use for
> many years later.
>
> No longer have the JD engine but I probably still have
> that buzz coil sitting on a shelf somewhere.
>
> George