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How Your Hobby Started Part XXVI

By Carle ton M. Mull

3904-47th Avenue S., Seattle, Washington 98118

Since writing the twenty-fifth chapter of this story reporting engineering specifications and historical data of gasoline engines, much time was spent this winter restoring my "one and only" 1-1/2 HP Economy engine. It was in junk condition when my grandsons found it out in the woods, completely rusted inside and out. It was difficult to distinguish what it was until all of the pine needles and dirt was removed. It was complete, with exception of the Webster magneto and a crank. My good friend, Claude Knudson of Gully, Minnesota supplied me with a magneto and I am still looking for a starting crank.

It required great pressure and a lot of solvents to remove the stuck piston. Then it was found that the drain cock had been closed when the engine was last used, and the rains filled with hopper which ...

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