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Sounds crazy but a low cost tiny well built engine like that makes me want to bolt it down and run it continuously 24-7 as an endurance experiment. Figure out a way to put tiny amount of lube in its air and let it run mid speed for 3 months then tear it down for wear check. Maybe I have a little twisted streak, but it would be fun to see how much abuse it could take from somebody that knew how to do it right. Maybe an oil bath crank, it would end up a holy mess blown off with an air hose and washed down with WD 40 once per month.  It must be late, goodnight.

by the time I had filmed  that Tim it had probably ran 3 hours continuously at a slow speed, I was hoping it would break in a little more and become a self-starter, neither of those things happened...it's just the nature of the Beast, I find that common with very small engines, too much friction to overcome for too small of displacement 😊
the only thing I would have changed on this design was to add an oil port on the axle shaft support tube.