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Painted the bases of the H&M engines. A bigger job than I thought initially taking these apart.
A hint if you take one of these engines apart. When you have stripped it down, the screw holding the Hall Sensor (that fires the spark) is held on with a screw that is 6.5mm long, do yourself a huge favour and put it in a vice and file it down to 6.00mm and it will make your life so much happier when re-installing the Hall Sensor.



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Thanks Nick, each got three coats of spray enamel.

I did this with the thought of it being a stopgap measure to get away from the ubiquitous 'Domino Box' look, but I have looked at ways of making a more substantial and better mount for many hours and come up with some ideas, but the short HT lead always circumvents any really flair in design.

The M91's rather "liberalized" H & M engine interpretation with unusual fully enclosed crankcase & brass radiator features lends itself to "anything goes" design flairs....Spliced HV spark wire extension or elevated, wood boxed-in ignition module would allow unlimited compatible artistic configurations......tom