I still have an old Homelite chainsaw that was ancient when we got it in the early 60's. The handle turned with the carb so it could cut while on its side. We posed with it in front of The General Sherman redwood tree in 1961 at Sequoia National Park for custom Christmas Cards that my mom always made. The Ranger about had a heart attack. We also had that same Homelite generator you have. Ours was chromate yellow and came off a WWII bomber. I don't know where that thing went. My dad never threw anything away. Always remember, a clean garage is the sign of a sick mind! Keep 'em running!
👍Меня удивляет не тот факт что они сохранены а то что за столько лет простоя у них не размагничны маховики !!!!! Какое качество, какие технологии!! 👍👍👍👍👍
I think the motor is camera shy. LOL! Also it seems to be a stubborn motor. I am impressed how good that motor did for having just gotten unstuck. Thanks for sharing again.
watching you tinker is much easier than actually going up to the barn and doing it myself...............my Dad used to make primer bottles just like yours , i have never seen anybody else using one........kudos to you, and thanks for letting us watch you tinker..............wb
Awesome .Makes me want to get into a tear down of a seized big ass Remington chain saw I got out of a old barn. Thanks for the inspirational. And informative video.
That whole machine is extremely well made. These generators were used in WWII quite a bit. This could be a late WWII produced Homelite, although I don't think they would have painted it red if it was produced for the U.S. Military,, LOL.
We had 2 of these engines like that but they were water pumps and they had sat for decades when my dad gor them and then got one running and we used the other for parts, thats how we watered are lawn for years was those. Haha! Love it! Keep them wrenches flying!
True, although Mustie1 actually is fairly good-looking, and so the women probably would indeed find his cheery pleasant-mannered self to be appealing to them, especially if he performs mechanic-work for them. :)
You are spot on about that anti foul cup, I had an old bike years ago that was prone to fouling the plugs a lot. I got a couple of those anti foul cups for the spark plugs and it greatly reduced the times I had to pull & clean them. Looking Good there, Cheers !
+Mustie1 Dunno if you see comments from a years-old vid like this, but a nice trick I use for priming an engine is to put straight fuel (not pre-mix) on part of the air filter. Works well, lasts for more revolutions and does not wet the sparky plug. Adjust the 'mixture' by varying the saturation and fraction soaked.
What a great video brother, you gotta love the torque of that drill driver.... Very cool you got the old Homelite to fire ! Long live the "old iron" :)
That 1945 date indicates to me that the orange one probably is from a B-29, though the B-17 was still in production until May of '45... I feel pretty certain the green one is an earlier WWII genset probably from a B-17 but possibly from a B-24 Liberator.
I can see your next place, a barn and all your bike creations flanking one side of it. Those motors have soul in them, they look cool just sitting there. At least they're runners with some tuning.
Yea I've pulled the crank rope a many time and either whipped the knot to hit my hand and/or the handle bang me winding it up sooooo many times only to realize out of gas or not choked or plug wire off. I laughed when you said "what's this lets try it" and pulled the post on the carb.
I believe these Homelite engines drove a 28 Volt generator in the aircraft during WWII and were mainly used in the tail of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and in the Consolidated B-24 Liberator as its located close to where the nosewheel would be. some call these APUS Putt Putts then.
I saw another video about a similar generator that was 110 volts, and it sounded very cool running. I think there's some sort of governor on it but it didnt show it in the video. It had a Coleman lantern style pump to prime the carburetor. That would make a really cool Whizzer style bicycle motor!
Mustie, I have that same Engine, it's set up as a Homelite water pump. Mine runs but has cracks in the gas tank and the plastic lines for fuel and vacuum need to be replaced. Looking to sell it to a good home.
Don't ever shut the camera off, because this it what it takes to start a pull cord engine. I remember the old days of pulling on the rope. Such a thrill when I was a kid, when the engine started. Now I can cut the lawn, like a man, same as my father.
Thats why I always carried a bottle of gas oil mix,a spark plug and rope with me when going to look at old snowmobiles. If I could get the engine to fire over,then I would buy the sled. I had to cut a tree down that was growing between the track inside the frame of an old John Deere Snowmobile. The only thing wrong with it was the rear track tentioner was shot. The rest of it looked like new except the seat had rotted away. I made a new seat and replaced the broken track tentioner and we had a blast with that big ole green machine. Even the old crusty yellow barn find snowmobiles will start with a bit of gas oil mix and a tug of the rope.
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Lol @bicep workout...wow..you'be been at it a while...stumbled across and ancient one Mustie1
I think the piece that threads into the head is a spark plug adaptor, antique plugs were larger and it looks like you have a modern plug. They make these adaptors because they don't make the plugs anymore.
Certainly started a lot easier once the crankcase flooded drain was closed :-) !. Old time two strokes would use the crankcase and under side of the piston as a vacuum pump to draw the fuel mix through the carburetor into the crankcase, then on the piston downstroke the mix would be slightly pressurized before the transfer port opened allowing the mix to squirt up into the cylinder. The crankcase pressure pulses could also be used to operate simple diaphragm fuel pumps. Keep running it and it should get better, the rings are probably stuck on gummy old mineral oil. Top job and a great find there bud.
Aircraft are 24 volt systems-im guessing they used this to help start the aircraft engines-P-51 Mustang engines are v12 Rolls Royce Merlins BUILT BY PACKARD IN DETROIT that displace 1,650 cu in-that takes some juice to crank. Also I think that collar in the plug hole is to REDUCE the thread size from an aircraft spark plug thread-either 5/8" or 3/4"(I'm sure you can operate a tape measure) because a crew chief would have more aircraft plugs in the field than automotive application plugs-remember the warning about hi test?Avgas?Dont try this at home-do it at work or your friends house!:}
Love the red homelite generator...Ive got two possibly around from the 80s or so Homelite Generators foudn them both at the scrap yard...the older one i dunno if it works anymore...took it apart and left it in peices for a year before i got the parts...think i got a bad ground. The motor runs strong....does the red one produce power? I'd love to find one of those and buy one...but they are hard for me to find..
I thin that spar plug adapter allowed folks to use current spark plugs in head's designed for early spark plugs which were much larger in thread diameter than later spark plugs.
for fueling dead equmint i use a pump up sprayer large engines like a car n a small rattle can with a tire tire nipple in it or refillable small can very useful just pull push button n fuel it to get it running
+Mustie1 I have the exact some one, except its green. Got it in close to the same condition that yours seems to be in although I have yet to get mine running or try to.
You know the older regular gas had lead in it to lubricate the top side of the pistons. You can still buy it and add it to the fuel. Think it would make the difference?
You should still be able to get new point condenser kits for those old two strokes Oh yeah they use one quart of 30 weight Jon detergent motor oil to five gallons of gas anything less will seize the motor.i learned about them at my uncles small engine shop back in the 60s
In the UK very old small engines used 18mm spark plugs could that strange thing in the cylinder head be an adaptor sleeve to adapt the head to a normal sized plug?
You sure it's a homelite? The way you were a poulan, and a poulan, cudda swore twas a Mac.. Love your vijayos.. Sorry I was about 5 years late to this party. K
There is a drain cock to drain excess gas out on the right side of the crankcase facing the flywheel its there to drain excess gas when it floods very helpful getting her going.
The military must of used allot of these, back in the 70s, people use to give these to me. I had two red ones from the air force, one was a 1942 the other was 1944 the green one was army, that was a 1942. I also had an army pump with the same engine dated 1945 all Homelites. I thought they use to have allot more compression than that but it was so long ago. I also had a set of DC military lights that these generators use to run.
Man homelite stuff is indestructible. They will literally run 100 years with no maintenance. I have some of their old And BEAT UP stuff, runs EVERY TIME. Nice machinery there man. Love the video.
Yes that is supposed to be a sparkplug defouler, used them on my slant 6 dodge dart, had about 200 thou miles on it and would foul up the plugs without them
Hi there, i got the exact same engine but the ignition coil has broken down. Just wondering if youd know where could i find another one, either the original or just a replacement?thanks in advance.
How doyou avoid the engine overdriving your impact driver? Are you pulling socket off drive bolt/nut head or do you have some type of slip device? Love the video!
I still have an old Homelite chainsaw that was ancient when we got it in the early 60's. The handle turned with the carb so it could cut while on its side. We posed with it in front of The General Sherman redwood tree in 1961 at Sequoia National Park for custom Christmas Cards that my mom always made. The Ranger about had a heart attack.
We also had that same Homelite generator you have. Ours was chromate yellow and came off a WWII bomber. I don't know where that thing went. My dad never threw anything away.
Always remember, a clean garage is the sign of a sick mind! Keep 'em running!
YOUr vidoes got my two lawnmowers and old 80's generator and a go kart running thanks for the videos, Youre awesome
that my friend is the kind of stuff I love springing new life in a vintage motor I get worked up just watching lol
👍Меня удивляет не тот факт что они сохранены а то что за столько лет простоя у них не размагничны маховики !!!!! Какое качество, какие технологии!! 👍👍👍👍👍
I think the motor is camera shy. LOL! Also it seems to be a stubborn motor. I am impressed how good that motor did for having just gotten unstuck. Thanks for sharing again.
watching you tinker is much easier than actually going up to the barn and doing it myself...............my Dad used to make primer bottles just like yours , i have never seen anybody else using one........kudos to you, and thanks for letting us watch you tinker..............wb
You are a magician with those old engines.
Great job. :-)
its the same idea each time to get them running,
It's at times like this when things are difficult, I have found warming the cylinder and head with a propane torch helps. Cheers
Awesome .Makes me want to get into a tear down of a seized big ass Remington chain saw I got out of a old barn. Thanks for the inspirational. And informative video.
There is something to old engines. They are amazing machines. leave them for ages and still you can get them to run. good work there!,
Thanks for showing the "struggle" to get it going, first time I've seen that from you, inferiority complex is relieved a bit.
*smirk*
That whole machine is extremely well made. These generators were used in WWII quite a bit. This could be a late WWII produced Homelite, although I don't think they would have painted it red if it was produced for the U.S. Military,, LOL.
I always like watching what you find, and get running again. nice videos
You are 100% correct that is a spark plug defauler they also make them for cars that have bad oil rings on the pistob .
Homelite APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) used on B17 bomber WWII.
Dang, it would be pretty cool to work on an engine from the ww2 era
We had 2 of these engines like that but they were water pumps and they had sat for decades when my dad gor them and then got one running and we used the other for parts, thats how we watered are lawn for years was those. Haha! Love it! Keep them wrenches flying!
my god man .you have the patience of a saint ...and go
if the woman dont find you handsome, they should at least find you handy
canadacatalyst you sound like the guy from the red and greene show
Red greene show, nice
Just so lonv as uve got some duct tape handy,eh? Heheh
True, although Mustie1 actually is fairly good-looking, and so the women probably would indeed find his cheery pleasant-mannered self to be appealing to them, especially if he performs mechanic-work for them. :)
That is very cool. Pretty amazing to see those WW-II era machines coming back to life.
Love your channel learning a lot about small engines
“Now we’re going to play with number two” lmao
I'd call that a successful day!! Well done Mate!!☺
wait for the green one, it gets good
Hairy pussy
You are spot on about that anti foul cup, I had an old bike years ago that was prone to fouling the plugs a lot. I got a couple of those anti foul cups for the spark plugs and it greatly reduced the times I had to pull & clean them.
Looking Good there, Cheers !
There ya go then, Thanks
I've never heard of them being an OEM feature either
+Mustie1 Dunno if you see comments from a years-old vid like this, but a nice trick I use for priming an engine is to put straight fuel (not pre-mix) on part of the air filter. Works well, lasts for more revolutions and does not wet the sparky plug. Adjust the 'mixture' by varying the saturation and fraction soaked.
Wow. That was awesome. You can get anything running..!! Great job..!!!
That old rope drill brought back some memory's
What a great video brother, you gotta love the torque of that drill driver....
Very cool you got the old Homelite to fire !
Long live the "old iron" :)
drill kicks ass,,
Awesome VW in the background!!
That 1945 date indicates to me that the orange one probably is from a B-29, though the B-17 was still in production until May of '45... I feel pretty certain the green one is an earlier WWII genset probably from a B-17 but possibly from a B-24 Liberator.
Always something cool happening on this channel.
that little piece under the spark plug is an antifowler
love to to have the home lite awesome little gen-set.
Back in the 70's non-fouler adapters were available for auto engines. Good for preventing fouling when you had an engine pumping oil (like mine).
Two common concepts, many engineering variations, thousands of applications. JL
Very cool to see those old engines coming back to life
I can see your next place, a barn and all your bike creations flanking one side of it. Those motors have soul in them, they look cool just sitting there. At least they're runners with some tuning.
Yea I've pulled the crank rope a many time and either whipped the knot to hit my hand and/or the handle bang me winding it up sooooo many times only to realize out of gas or not choked or plug wire off. I laughed when you said "what's this lets try it" and pulled the post on the carb.
I like that you made up the word “chunktified”, and I knew what you meant.
Man I love your Bus !!!
Really love these engines!
I believe these Homelite engines drove a 28 Volt generator in the aircraft during WWII and were mainly used in the tail of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and in the Consolidated B-24 Liberator as its located close to where the nosewheel would be. some call these APUS Putt Putts then.
I wonder if these were the cause of alot of the b-25 crashes and explosions mid air!?
I saw another video about a similar generator that was 110 volts, and it sounded very cool running. I think there's some sort of governor on it but it didnt show it in the video. It had a Coleman lantern style pump to prime the carburetor.
That would make a really cool Whizzer style bicycle motor!
other then the carb the motor has that early look for the bike engine,
looks like great fun! Thanks for the video!
good workout
"Kajunktified" points? Did I get it right? Glorious word!
Or funkynofireatall!
Mustie,
I have that same Engine, it's set up as a Homelite water pump.
Mine runs but has cracks in the gas tank and the plastic lines for fuel and vacuum need to be replaced.
Looking to sell it to a good home.
super cool little vintage motor. It's sure to look great on one of your rat bikes:)
Don't ever shut the camera off, because this it what it takes to start a pull cord engine. I remember the old days of pulling on the rope. Such a thrill when I was a kid, when the engine started. Now I can cut the lawn, like a man, same as my father.
That is one cool saw, it runs and all, but in my world, it's a wall hanger !!
Thats why I always carried a bottle of gas oil mix,a spark plug and rope with me when going to look at old snowmobiles. If I could get the engine to fire over,then I would buy the sled. I had to cut a tree down that was growing between the track inside the frame of an old John Deere Snowmobile. The only thing wrong with it was the rear track tentioner was shot. The rest of it looked like new except the seat had rotted away. I made a new seat and replaced the broken track tentioner and we had a blast with that big ole green machine. Even the old crusty yellow barn find snowmobiles will start with a bit of gas oil mix and a tug of the rope.
Lol @bicep workout...wow..you'be been at it a while...stumbled across and ancient one Mustie1
engines like you thats why they start for ya,,,excellent vid
I think the piece that threads into the head is a spark plug adaptor, antique plugs were larger and it looks like you have a modern plug. They make these adaptors because they don't make the plugs anymore.
Hey good bud! That fuel bottle should be your signature, I enjoy your enlighnting videos.
I built 2 motorized bikes based on watching your videos, I’m a genious now. So my wife say.
Certainly started a lot easier once the crankcase flooded drain was closed :-) !. Old time two strokes would use the crankcase and under side of the piston as a vacuum pump to draw the fuel mix through the carburetor into the crankcase, then on the piston downstroke the mix would be slightly pressurized before the transfer port opened allowing the mix to squirt up into the cylinder. The crankcase pressure pulses could also be used to operate simple diaphragm fuel pumps. Keep running it and it should get better, the rings are probably stuck on gummy old mineral oil. Top job and a great find there bud.
whorayful 2 strokes still work like that.
EragonSuperM
Aircraft are 24 volt systems-im guessing they used this to help start the aircraft engines-P-51 Mustang engines are v12 Rolls Royce Merlins BUILT BY PACKARD IN DETROIT that displace 1,650 cu in-that takes some juice to crank. Also I think that collar in the plug hole is to REDUCE the thread size from an aircraft spark plug thread-either 5/8" or 3/4"(I'm sure you can operate a tape measure) because a crew chief would have more aircraft plugs in the field than automotive application plugs-remember the warning about hi test?Avgas?Dont try this at home-do it at work or your friends house!:}
Mustie1, U got the old beast running!
Think you are moving that machine the opposite direction .
Been around those older machines and never seen one run in the anticlockwise direction.
A man after my own heart
good job, those old rope tugs are a pain for sure........tony
Good work 👍👍👍
My uncle used to build one stroke engines on the side
troponinnutrition steam locomotive engines?
troponinnutrition Explosions?
Which side?
Love the red homelite generator...Ive got two possibly around from the 80s or so Homelite Generators foudn them both at the scrap yard...the older one i dunno if it works anymore...took it apart and left it in peices for a year before i got the parts...think i got a bad ground. The motor runs strong....does the red one produce power? I'd love to find one of those and buy one...but they are hard for me to find..
Hey I want to know do you have anything else to show me on RUclips did you find anything like antic from the garage sale ?
I thin that spar plug adapter allowed folks to use current spark plugs in head's designed for early spark plugs which were much larger in thread diameter than later spark plugs.
for fueling dead equmint i use a pump up sprayer large engines like a car n a small rattle can with a tire tire nipple in it or refillable small can very useful just pull push button n fuel it to get it running
*_It's gonna be a choocher._*
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That is a nice old engine.
I think that was an adapter to allow you to use a modern3/4 inch plug in an enginevwith an antique 7/8 diameter plug.
I see after you closed the valve on the base of the motor that was spewing fuel out of it it finally fired. It can’t run with no base pressure. Lol
Nice! Good exercise for the right arm! :-) Will you eventually need to find a replacement for the points in order to get the right gap?
+Mustie1 I have the exact some one, except its green. Got it in close to the same condition that yours seems to be in although I have yet to get mine running or try to.
I thought I was patient you're competition
Nice job.
You know the older regular gas had lead in it to lubricate the top side of the pistons. You can still buy it and add it to the fuel. Think it would make the difference?
wow you are the man
You have more patience then me, pull starting that motor for that long.
Hand tool rescue restored one of these!
I learned how to turn over a motor with a drill. That is a good idea. The power plant is cool.
corded 1/2 inch drills work well too,
You should still be able to get new point condenser kits for those old two strokes
Oh yeah they use one quart of 30 weight Jon detergent motor oil to five gallons of gas anything less will seize the motor.i learned about them at my uncles small engine shop back in the 60s
In the UK very old small engines used 18mm spark plugs could that strange thing in the cylinder head be an adaptor sleeve to adapt the head to a normal sized plug?
That was exciting!
You sure it's a homelite? The way you were a poulan, and a poulan, cudda swore twas a Mac.. Love your vijayos.. Sorry I was about 5 years late to this party. K
Beautiful old Dub bus in the background. Have you done a video about that?
+doctorno0070 That's Lucy.
There is a drain cock to drain excess gas out on the right side of the crankcase facing the flywheel its there to drain excess gas when it floods very helpful getting her going.
thanks
My arm is sore watching you pull that rope.
love the type 2 in the background :)
The military must of used allot of these, back in the 70s, people use to give these to me. I had two red ones from the air force, one was a 1942 the other was 1944 the green one was army, that was a 1942. I also had an army pump with the same engine dated 1945 all Homelites. I thought they use to have allot more compression than that but it was so long ago. I also had a set of DC military lights that these generators use to run.
l think it just needed some spin time to get the rings seating, the more it ran the better it got,
LOL, you were spinning it backward turning clockwise on the generator end.🤣 Being a 2 stroke, it'll run, just not very well.😁
Man homelite stuff is indestructible. They will literally run 100 years with no maintenance. I have some of their old And BEAT UP stuff, runs EVERY TIME. Nice machinery there man. Love the video.
its actually electric start!
Didn't Jimmy Stewart have this same problem trying to start the engine on the Phoenix ?
That used a Kaufman starter. Ahhh im gonna try one ignition off to clear the cylinders......NO YOU ARE NOT!#!#!!
Nice.. 2 out of the 3 run so far. It wouldn't surprise me that with a points clean, the 3rd will pop right off as well...
gotta leave you with a cliff hanger,
that's a check on the chain saw, a check on the reddish orange one
Yes that is supposed to be a sparkplug defouler, used them on my slant 6 dodge dart, had about 200 thou miles on it and would foul up the plugs without them
That's pretty cool.
hi im john i have a homelite 2cycle generator 1954 ,,,it runs but wont generate ,do you know how to induce it to put out current,,
Hi there, i got the exact same engine but the ignition coil has broken down. Just wondering if youd know where could i find another one, either the original or just a replacement?thanks in advance.
That plug adapter is an anti foul device for oil burners
That's exactly what the adapter looking thing is an anti fouler for the spark plug.
How doyou avoid the engine overdriving your impact driver? Are you pulling socket off drive bolt/nut head or do you have some type of slip device?
Love the video!