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Title: Trying to identify a neat little engine
Post by: DJoksch on May 17, 2021, 07:42:55 pm

This engine had sat next to the fireplace since 1968.  The intake and exhaust looks like a Pacific, however I was told it might be an Oriental.  I made a new crank shaft and ran it at an engine show years ago.  I had an antique Folgers coffee can installed as a water cooler. People used to ask about the “coffee grinder” next to the fireplace so I added the strange piping amd a Luk mixer to complete the coffee grinder look.  I suspect it had a gas vapor fuel system.  The Oriental pic. shows a small flyball governor on the intake cap where a wing screw sits.  The brass side shaft make and break mechanism looks like an add-on.  There is a stub on the piston where a post used to be that was likely the original ignition.