[SEL] Economy 1 HP fuel mixer needed

[David Rotigel]

Hi David, A picture of your "Economy" would help a lot. I think that  
Hercules never built a 1 HP. Sears owned the trademark on "Economy"  
but the casting number 5-23-13 does not make any sense.
	Dave
PS, As far as a cart being called a "truck" that is just what they  
were called. It's much like calling a DEMOCRAT an IDIOT! (That's just  
what they are called!)

On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:01 PM, DMcDonald wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I think I need some help but first some background.
>
> Over 20 years ago I saw some running hit and miss engines working at a
> Colorado tractor show and thought it would be fun to have one and  
> watch
> it run. So after some looking around I found an auction that was only
> about 300 miles away and went and bought a 1.5 hp McCormick Deering M
> engine and what I thought was a 3 hp McCormick Deering M but after I  
> got
> home I found it was another 1.5 hp.
>
> After some work and buying a fuel pump I had the engine sitting on  
> metal
> table. Wait for it…... I tried to start it up. Well, it did start  
> and
> there I am holding onto my engine so it does not fall off the table  
> and
> break while trying to find the off switch. I guess they did not need  
> one
> when it was new. Or more likely when it was new no one would put it  
> on a
> table and then start it. After about five minutes of this monster  
> piece
> of metal bouncing around the table I got it stopped. The next time I  
> did
> have it on the ground to start it.
>
> But I knew I needed someone to teach me some of the basics of these
> engines so went to a local tractor collector show and found out who  
> was
> the best to learn from. Just wanting to learn how to make them work I
> walked up to the gentleman and started to ask questions. I watched  
> as he
> worked on getting some engines running, offered to help where I could,
> handing holding and helping move things. I had my daughter with me and
> it was fun watching but somehow I asked the wrong/right question and  
> he
> gave me his engines. Four or five big ones and 10-15 small ones like  
> the
> Maytag. It turns out he was retiring from his farm and moving in town
> with a son on the other side of Montana and did not want to take the
> engines and wanted someone to enjoy his engines. So for a number of
> years I took my tractors (IHC from the 1950’s) up to the show and  
> would
> haul out engines. I would run the M, picked up a corn sheller and a
> flour mill (the engine and flour mill was used for many years in a  
> small
> town of Wibaux) so I would have corn on the cob that people could  
> shell
> and then make corn meal on the spot. It was good.
>
> I slowed down after hurting my back so have not made the show for a
> while. But this fall found some auctions close by that had some hit &
> miss engines. I got bit with the “bug” again.
>
> I ended up buying a 1 hp Economy Gasoline Engine “Improved Model”  
> sn
> SN33709 - (not sure of year or model but the casting has 5-23-13).  
> It is
> missing some things and I have found and bought a gas tank and the gas
> filler tube and a cart/truck and then started to look for a  
> carburetor.
> Did you know that many of these engines do not have carburetors but  
> have
> fuel mixers?? Who knew? And why would a small cart be called a truck??
>
> So looking and asking around I found that there might be a J type fuel
> mixer for the Economy but also a Luckenheimer fuel mixer was used. I
> found one dealer that had one but it was stolen off his table at a  
> show.
> So after posting a message on Smoke-stack I was pointed to some ebay
> listings. One for a 1 inch RH and one for a ¾ inch RH or LH (not  
> sure)
> Luckenheimer. I measured the pipe the mixer would screw into and it  
> was
> about 1 inch. Looked at images of RH and LH mixers but how do you know
> which was correct. I won the ebay auction and waited until it showed  
> up
> in the mail. But like lumber what you ask for and what is measured  
> does
> not match!!!! *&^(*&%%$%%^***
>
> I now have a nice 1 inch RH Lunkenheimer but need I am pretty sure a  
> ¾
> inch LH Lunkenheimer fuel mixer.
>
> So DOES anyone have a ¾ inch LH Lunkenheimer for sale or know where I
> and get one???
> Anyone need a nice 1 inch??
>
> Once I have the mixer then I have to figure out how to get the  
> spark???
>
> This is not like the McCormick Deering M at all.
>
> I would love to get this engine running before the new year. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. While I wait I am working on a 2.25 hp
> Galloway, John Deere, Whitte and a Grey. All in pieces but it is cold
> here in the winter. 
>
> This is a great list and I enjoy reading it every day. I am on digest
> mode so will see the emails only once a day.
> Later
> david
>
>
>
> -- 
> David McDonald                  Collector of Japanese Swords and Old  
> Iron
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>
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