1/4 scale galloway gas engine model

[chuck foster]

heres a video of a hit and miss gas engine i built awhile ago

the castings are from richard shelly.
it has 8 inch dia flywheels, the bore and stroke are 1 1/4" x 2".
instead of a spark plug it uses an ignitor for ignition.
what you see in the video took 40 hours to make (from raw castings)
i have 6 model engines running and about 12 or 14 more to build.
i also have 5 full size engines to work on as well............i just love hit and miss engines of all sizes.

chuck 

[hitandmissman]

Very nice engine you have there.  I would like to build one like that one of these days.

[sbwhart]

Very nice Engine you've built there Chuck:- sounds very sweet  . Do you take your engines to shows ?, ther's a yearly show held near us in the UK, they call the 1000 engine meet, been a couple of times really enjoy it.

Have fun

Stew

[Stilldrillin]

Very nicely done Chuck! 

David D

[Spen50]

What a smashing little engine - sound great too 

[sorveltaja]

Nice work and engine . 

How does that ignitor differ from spark plug ? Does it use engine's piston to produce spark?

[chuck foster]

thanks for all the kind words 

hitandmissman:all i can say is get going on one a.s.a.p. they are allot of fun to build and watch

stew: i go to about 5 or 10 shows each year, sometimes with my models and some times with my full size engines here's one of them, it's a 6 h.p sta-rite

sorveltaja: i will try to post some pictures of an ignitor. you can read about one here http://www.old-engine.com/magign.htm

thanks guys

chuck

[sorveltaja]

aermotor8 thanks for the link. I've read it, but it provides only a hint of that process (and devices related). Still can't understand how it works . Any thing that clarifies it would be appreciated.