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old gas engine restoration

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dsquire:
Chuck

Doing what you are doing to help preserve our past mechanical history is wonderful and appreciated. You have the right to be very proud of the work that you do. :clap: :clap: :clap:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

Gerhard Olivier:
Wow Chuck that is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I could only do 1 of that level I would be so pleased.

Gerhard

chuck foster:
tinkerer that is indeed a water hopper on top and this engine came with a flat belt pulley bolted to the spokes of the fly wheel. with that pulley you could drive a multitude of things. the most common things to be driven would be a water pump, a grain grinder or a saw to cut fire wood. this engine is rated at 5 h.p.

darren,stew,john and don  thanks for the comments. dad and i have rebuilt engines that were in worse shape than this one was, but that was before all this computer stuff and digital cameras. we never took pictures of half the stuff we fixed. i wish we had but we didn't.

geroli: you could do the work. it is just like building a model or anything else, you just do it one part/piece at a time and if it isn't right you do it again.
when i start a project i look things over and get a game plan, then i just start working on one piece till it is finished then move on to the next part. eventually with enough parts finished you will have the project finished.

glad you guys enjoyed this post.

chuck  :wave:

chuck foster:
for what it is worth i found a better picture of the fly wheel pattern that my dad made.



the fly wheels are 24" dia. and weigh 165 pounds each.

chuck  :wave:

Powder Keg:
Your dad did a great job on that pattern!!! It looks wonderfull. A lot better than some of mine. Can you find out what he coats them with? It looks like it would about jump out of the sand:o)

Thanks, Wes

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