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davidbliss
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Homelite were used on many generators to chainsaws, Drones and Ken Wallis them in his Auto-Gyro, one that was used during the war used for the emergency generator that sat under wireless operators desk? in the liberator was bit unusual being two stroke with a governed rotary inlet valve, A 8-1 pet-oil mix and a no float carburettor sat on-top of the tank with hand petrol pump to start, then used sort of petrol lift by bubbling air into a pipe that was submerged in the petrol tank. They had to run on 100 octane and with extreme cold had the masked type of plug-ignition, running at low altitude combustion chamber would soon overheat and stop. were very problematic to start if not done properly, one I built up for a museum had been given a Latin name by one of the air crew of scratched into the top of Sh-ttus-Rotus. Most likely all written archive is now lost thats a bit sad and I just remembered it was a Mr Alfred Feaviour got some recognition for development of improvements for the masked plug ignition for the first WW1 aircraft engines, I have them from 1906 it was used and plug savers still sold in the fifties. Photos, the Homelite carb and petrol lift. left to right, 1906 6 HP Rover, Homelite WW 2 gennerator, 1950s plug saver.

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