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TROUBLESHOOTING THE GAS ENGINE. WITH STAN READ

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If your gas engine has electrical ignition but does not use a spark plug it probably uses a hammerbreak igniter. This igniter is used in conjunction with a battery and simple induction coil or with a low-voltage magneto. It has been said that the igniter system is mechanically complicated and electrically simple while the high-tension spark plug type system is mechanically simple and electrically complicated.

Because of its mechanical complications the hammerbreak igniter is limited to slower speed engines, as it begins to malfunction at speeds greater than about 750 RPM.

The hammerbreak igniter (see Fig. 1) consists of a cast iron or brass body, a, which bolts to the engine head or cylinder side so that the breaker points extend into the combustion chamber. One of the points, b, is stationa...

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