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Homemade Ignitor

By Paul Towne

26 Riched Lane Uncasville, CT 06382

In the summer of '88 I bought a 5 HP Maynard kerosene gasoline engine to be restored during the winter months. This engine was stuck, cracked, rusty and missing the carburetor and ignitor. My kind of engine!

I decided to design and build a low voltage ignitor to use until I could find an authentic ignitor. The first step was to purchase some Mica washers, Mica tubes and Tungsten ignitor points from one of the GEM engine parts advertisers. Next came some studying of Fairbanks-Morse and Stover ignitor specifications to obtain low voltage ignitor construction ideas.

Pictures 1 and 2 show the housing that resulted from a lot of cutting, welding, grinding and drilling. The length of the housing was chosen to place the points approximately flush with the side of the cylinder bore. This length also serves to fill most of the entran...

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