[SEL] Economy 1 HP fuel mixer needed

[DMcDonald]

Dear Dave, Keith and all

I went back to the auction bill and there was no mention about the 
engines were used or
new.  So I ended up paying about 6 times the new price.  Darn!  Next 
time I will ask more
questions before I buy. :)

Good news - A number of collectors have contacted me about the fuel 
mixer and in the end
a great fellow from Oregon had some extra 3/4 inch Lunks and he traded 
me for my
1 inch.  Turns out he collects Stovers and I had (not sure where I 
picked it up) a Stover
brass tag for a 18 hp.  Thought he might find a use and told him I would 
send it with
the 1" Lunk - he did not have a 18 hp but had a friend that did, so the 
tag will
get a home.  :)

He then talked me through some of the other things I would need or take 
care of
one was a check value.  He said he would include a check value with the 
3/4 lunk.

Looks like I will have the gas taken care of soon.  Now to start working 
on the electrical.
No problem getting a small 12 volt gel battery, looking now at coils.  
Might be fun
to make one.  Then to make a nice battery box.  Has anyone seen an very 
good image
of the labels on the old battery boxes??

I will send a private email to Keith to get the books.  Sounds like good 
information.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I sure enjoy reading the emails from this list - even when they are 
about engines!  :)

Last - Dave are you the one that collects Magtags?

later and thanks again for all the help
david

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:20:40 -0500 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> 
Message-ID: <DB12456A-BE75-4204-BBAF-31CF49F506D9 at me.com> Content-Type: 
text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes 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
> >
> >  Athttp://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)


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