factory

@CNew Do these cut-away engines still have a serial number or is it just blank? Obviously no model number as that side has been cut-off. David

Woops, that was just suppose to just be “some”, I dislike auto-correct... Same here with auto-correct, sometimes it's just completely useless. David

Wow, that's doubled the amount of them we know of, the one in the Norwegian Technical Museum is a 0.85HP version with metal caged bearings, but the separate gearbox (on it's own) has the older plastic caged bearings, I suspect they couldn't use the newer wire caged bearings as they would fall out. Clint, check that your starter has the groove for that retaining ring. David

All bring and buy sales run by the Cotswold Oil Engine and Preservation Society are cancelled until further notice. http://www.cotswoldoilengine.co.uk/ David

Old radio/electronics surplus sale at Hack Green bunker is cancelled too. David

Someone covering up after loosing one of the four induction case screws on the floor, after the mounting flange has been removed & the remaining screws shortened. David

It won't start, compression is terrible, gas leaking everywhere...... Very nice engine @CNew, I still haven't got one & have been collecting O&R's for years, looks like all the starter parts are missing not just the spring & cord, needs a reel too. Neither of the other two have a gearbox either, maybe it was a one-off for the brochure. David

It's nothing unusual, just an older 3/4HP engine, these Type 133 engines have turned up with a wide range of serial numbers indicating the military were wasting tax payers money for several years and leaving us with plenty of nice NOS engines on the surplus market too. David P.S. What's the Somme (WWI) got to do with it? We don't want that getting out, as it's bad enough people incorrectly listing them as WWII vintage.

Nice find Paul. For some reason that spark-plug cap reminds me of those used on old CRT TV's for the high voltage connection. @CNew needs to do some more homework , the letters forming part of the model number on these TAS/Tanaka engines gives the tool they were used on, e.g; *BC= brush cutter *CS= chain saw *ED= engine drill *EG= electric generator *HT= hedge trimmer *OB= outboard The history page at "Hitachi/Metabo" indicates the T-23 engine was produced from 1975. They are also still incorrectly claiming to have introduced the world smallest industrial two-stroke engine (P7) in 1962, how wrong they are. https://www.metabo-hpt.com/us/main-navigation/tanaka-history And they still can't spell Villiers. David

Not me either, nice looking usually costs more too. David

Neither of the pair of later style red chainsaws I bought had any surviving decals, as they were both identical I sold one of them to Paul & he had some decals made from the best image I could find at the time. Here are various images of the Chip-A-Saw & Paul Bunyan decals I have saved from either ePay listings or the web; Wallfish should be able to help with dimensions for the above Chip-A-Saw decal on the red chainsaw (it's from the ePay listing of the one he bought), I forgot to mention that this Paul Bunyan decal image came from another forum, Paul Bunyan chainsaw on forestryforum. David

No it isn't, it's a Type 215 engine with gearbox, I think the starter housing may have got swapped at some point, the Type 133 engine doesn't have a gearbox. David

Here are some more pictures of the mystery mini-bike, sorry @CNew just noticed I haven't taken a complete front view picture. No tools are required to separate the three parts, it has a spring loaded mechanism for the frame & the seat section just slides in. David

Both of the model motorbikes were in the US, found a pre-war Norton motorcycle that has some similarities to the second one. There are some ready made wedge shaped gas tanks for RC use, no idea if there is one big enough for the model motorbike. Example : https://www.ebay.com/itm/323751586744 David

There was a second one sold around the same time, this one made $1775, I haven't seen another scratch built model bike since these two. David

You would probably have a better chance of finding one on eBay with a saved search. David

Not sure either, but I've edited posts to fix broken web links before. I have all seven pictures from the ePay auction for this model, it doesn't look like a toy to me, more something a model engineer may have built, the copper parts are solid not tubes. If anyone was wondering it sold for $844. David

RC glow plugs use low voltage from a battery to heat the coil in the plug, not the high voltage from the magneto. It stopped raining long enough to take some earlier today, need to edit & upload them later, got to go out now. David

Also remove the redundant magneto parts and use them to fix another engine. David

I'm worried about the future of the local engine rally I go to, it was cancelled last year due to the field being flooded, another couple of bad years in a row could finish it off. David

Is that definitely a Type 133? They normally have the green (military) starter housing (oddly my minibike has one of these but is Type 215), the Type 133 wasn't supplied with a muffler as presumably they wanted a silencer instead. Here is NOS military Type 133 (not mine) the sealed packets contain the gas tank & air cleaner. Same here I can only work on my engines at home, the walls & girders at work have eyes now, so can't sneak anything in to keep me occupied while waiting for the CNC lathe to complete it's cycle. David

The carburetor operation is explained in detail in the manual; David

Another one here, plus pictures of the one from the linked site (& old forum); And forum member @Roving6 has one, no pictures; David

Good advice, I have a damaged generator here (mentioned in post #2) the governor malfunctioned causing the engine to rev to silly speeds, unfortunately in the process of trying to figure out why, the generator was damaged. The cause was an early all metal governor vane being bent out of shape, it rattled it's self out with vibration from the engine. I have since scanned & uploaded the later Tiny Tiger manual here (section 4, last one); I still have an earlier Tiny Tiger manual to upload in the future. Sounds like someone took the starter apart incorrectly by drilling out the rivet, you should never need to drill out the rivet as it only holds the starter reel bearing in place, the spring & starter cord can be serviced without removing the bearing. David

No, none of the Tiny Tiger alternators outputs are regulated, for the 110V (or 230V) output the governor is adjusted to give the correct voltage for the load. As has been mentioned in the other thread you posted in, a vehicle voltage regulator module could be used if you wanted a constant battery charging voltage. More information can be found in the Tiny Tiger manual I scanned & uploaded to this thread (last one in Section 4); David