[SEL] Economy 1 HP fuel mixer needed

Skip Landis skipl130 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 7 19:34:22 PST 2010


i have a 1 horse economy #33658. it has the lunkenhiemer & has the same casting 
date.  skip




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From: David Rotigel <rotigel at me.com>
To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sun, November 7, 2010 5:20:40 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Economy 1 HP fuel mixer needed

Hi David,
    Sorry for the delay, but I had trouble locating the Karch book titled  
"SPARTA" ECONOMY. From what Glenn writes I have gleaned the following:
        1.) Your engine is indeed a 1 HP.
        2.) It was built after Hercules bought the Holm's Machine  
Manufacturing Co. (in 1913) but likely manufactured in Sparta Mich.  
BEFORE all the Holm's equipment was moved to
            Evansville IN.
        3.) The model of your engine is CX
        4.) The engine sold new for $28.95. (I sure hope that someone didn't  
take advantage of you for buying a "used" engine!)
        5.) A total of about 10,000 model CX engines were built in 1, 2, 4,  
6, 8, and 10 HP
        6.) In late 1913 the 1 HP engine was rerated to 1 1/2 HP. (No  
changes were made in the bore, stroke or RPM.)
        7.) I pretty sure that your engine had a Lunkenheimer "Generator" on  
it and not a "J" mixer. (Yes Sparta called it a "generator" not a  
"mixer." It's kinda like calling a DEMOCRAT a
            ........ Oh, never mind!)
    Karch has many more details about the Sparta Economy engines in his  
book. You should buy a copy.
        Dave
PS, You have a real piece of history there. Take good care of it!
PPS, Good luck finding the "generator" you need!
PPPS, Until you find a 3/4" Lunk you could use a 3/4 male to 1" female  
adapter.

On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:38 PM, DMcDonald wrote:

> Dear Dave
>
> At http://www.montanairon.com/stationaryenginesimages.html
> I have placed images of my Economy.
>
> Sure looks like a 1 hp on the tag?????
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Back to playing with my 'trucks'!
>
> later
> david (on digest mode so will be slow to answer)
>
> On 11/7/2010 10:00 AM, sel-request at lists.stationary-engine.com wrote:
>> Message: 2 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0400 From: David Rotigel
>> <rotigel at me.com> Subject: Re: [SEL] Economy 1 HP fuel mixer needed  
>> To:
>> The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes 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
> cut
>
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