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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Making An "Old Engine"By Richard Sabol1 Piscataqua, Road Dover, New Hampshire 03820-5206 THE "Sahire" engine in last month's GEM magazine is a late 1920s Briggs & Stratton enginemaybe an FH. I started gathering pieces for this engine about 1994 or earlier. Frank Hietala had helped me get many of the parts. To him I owe a great thank you. As in Photo #1, the crankcase, head, connecting rod and piston came from an auction in Nottingham, New Hampshire. The rest of the parts in the photo came from Frank, one way or another. Frank has built a few of these engines, so I went by some photos of his engines and an occasional "what did you do here, Frank?" when I saw him at a show over the years. The sideplate of the Briggs was used for the timing and the points. I turned it down to a smaller diameter on my lathe (photo 2). The 2 to 1 gears were left inside the cra... 810 of 2803 characters shown.
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