Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
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I assume that is an electric start engine? The Chinese build a
multitude of small diesel engines, mainly air cooled with a recoil
starters. I assume that as they keep selling them someone can start
them but I certainly can't.

Hold the compression release and they turn over all right, but when
you release it the engine just stops. Being in the middle of a
tremendous yank on the starter rope and the damned thing just stops
turning is an experience - you have to look to see whether your
fingers are still attached :-)


It's electric start. You need the battery to preheat it, anyways. They do
have more expensive remote-controlled models and way higher powers.

I stopped by "Pep Boys", an auto parts place, to get two windscreen wiper
blades for my stepvan truck. Cost me $1600 after I spotted the little
diesel gensets. Big mistake going into that store for wipers...(c;]

The thing is built like a tank....heavy steel, even the cabinet. Somewhere
along the distribution line, it gained a little exhaust stack that sticks
up about half a meter above it, probably to keep the cabinet from being
discolored by the blowby. Looks like a miniature 18-wheeler truck exhaust
pipe...(c;]

It's amazingly quiet for a diesel. The cabinet absorbs a lot of the
knocking noise and the big muffler works quite well on the exhaust
note...even under a good load.

400 pounds of ballast....it won't float away.

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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?