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Nanzy Gas Engine
Nanzy was machined from a set of castings purchased from Russell Snyder. They are now sold by Jay Peters. The engine has 1-1/8" bore, 1-1/2" stroke and 6" flywheels. I made babbit crankshaft bearings instead of bronze and a positive crankcase vent check valve is installed inside the crankcase. The ignition system consists of a 6 volt 4 amp hour sealed lead acid battery, an old style Briggs & Stratton magneto ignition coil, a Floyd Carter designed Electronic Buzzcoil Circuit built from one of my kits and a dual Hall Effect magnetic pickup. One of the Hall Effect sensors is activated by position of the exhaust valve push rod and serves as a spark saver. The prototype engine used a rather crude push button type points system. A fuel pickup filter screen was built into the engine base fuel tank. The engine runs on my blend of 70% Methanol and 30% Ozark Trails camp fuel from WalMart and at the lowest speed setting, will run about 24 hours on a 5 ounce tank of fuel!