That is a wonderful engine Tone, great score 
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Goran, these old engines are really interesting, simply and well made…
Got a new 95 diameter piston with rings from a Fiat / Universal tractor at a local shop, it is 10mm higher which will give a higher CR and with a thin copper cylinder head gasket I will change the CR from 1:4.5 to 1:6, it does not work much, but the compression space will be reduced by 30%. I think it will be a great wood gas engine that will drive this Russian electric motor as a generator, it has a winding designed to allow operation in a star with a voltage of 3x380V…
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Hi Tone, yes these old engines are really designed to work, and hold up forever, very sturdy built, for a stationary engine the extra weight doesn’t matter.
Looking forward to see this project come together.
I have some old documents (somewhere) that explains some benefits how Imbert style gasifiers seems to work very well with slow running single cylinder engines, seems the oxygen gets time to “dwell” between strokes, gives gasifier time to recuperate, and work better than with a steady gas stream. I can’t explain this, but will look if i find the papers.
Maybe the working principle comes close to Dowson gasifiers, with two moments: 1 air blast= heating, produces mainly CO, 2 water reaction, blast with superheated steam, which cools the hot zone, producing lots of Hydrogen, and some CO.
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tone, the post with the electromotor is not translated in english…my translater dont make it…
the magneto of your motor is working yet?
the piston, you said is iron…is it cast iron or steel?
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I will continue here, maybe I will open a new topic eventually,…
The new piston has a larger diameter pin, so it is necessary to make bushings for adjustment
Fits nicely to the cylinder
It will still be necessary to weld the recess
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D*mn!, Tone, you are fast working 
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tone, it would be a very good idea if you open a new topic like " mechanical modification of engines for woodgas use" …or such a title…
it is always very difficult to find again special things what forum members have done, when it is spread in different topics with title what not belongs so much to the argument…so one know there was a post of a certain argument, but where…?
you show so much interesting details of your engines, so it would be nice to find it in one topic collected, also the older things you have made, like the jenbacher piston and regulation modifications ecc.
we learn always a lot from you and other active forum members…thanks to all what share knowledge!
ciao giorgio
my workshop is blocked today because of rain…yesterday it was cold, but we whitstand…
in the kitchen roof water enters, the mice has have eaten the bitumen paper …five buckets on the floor
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I don’t have anything clever to post, maybe just a picture of this chainsaw, which is probably quite well-known among our friends in America, and of course I can’t forget Goran… 
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I have one of those. It’s a great saw. 60cc and an additional thumb pump for extra bar oil besides the regular oiler. All metal cases and I don’t know if it’s the particular muffler but it kind of barks when you rev it. Owned it since 1983 and used if for many years full time. A gift from my wife. Why she chose that particular saw remains a mystery but It was proof that she was the woman of my dreams. It still works fine.
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Nice!! It has all its paint too! It still looks brand new.
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Well, I brought something home too.
I bought it on a store return auction warehouse website 4 miles from home. It was minus the bar and chain and charger but it had the two 24 volt 4 ah batteries for a total of 48 running volts. I was high bidder at only 3 dollars! I spent 17 dollars for a charger from Amazon and I robbed the bar and chain from one of my other saws. Call me a cheapskate if you want but am happy with it even though it is mostly plastic.
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Tom, you wrote a beautiful story about your wife and this model of chainsaw. This chainsaw will probably always remind me of you and your wife. I wish you a beautiful life.
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Nice one Tone, Homelite xl series feels pretty modern even today, nice saws.
I got a couple of them too, but i can’t beat this guy from Finland
Jari has around 600 Homelites.
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So a elderly friend of mine had a washing machine go out, I got the machine after they replaced with a new one just to haul it away.
I yanked the motor out found it is an univeral motor so it runs on DC, should work good off my solar panel. I took the rest apart and I found this video of how to use a washing machine tub as a fire pit…
Now that I have the shell of the washing machine, I was thinking about making that either an oven or my next improvement on my sand battery…
I had an idea of using waste motor oil to heat the sand battery, then cook with the retained heat…
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3 bucks, and it included the batteries is a great deal. The bar and chain weren’t worth anything. The stock ones suck and need to be replaced anyway. 
Hopefully you get some use out of it!
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I thought it looked familiar. I’ll bet it had a hard time keeping up, when it followed you home 
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Ha, second pic looks like you already mounted a hopper 
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Hehe, i thought the same, i had to look closer
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I was thinking the same thing but then I remembered Tone got a 4hp engine last week. and he probably just hooked it to the pto, rode it like a unicycle and brake steered it. He is tricky like that.
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