Like most things I build, they never really get thrown away, merely re-purposed.
I had actually been planning on turning the motorbike engine into a lamp once I wore the little engine out, unfortunately that day came a little too quickly...but I ran to Goodwill and got a cheapo matching lamp for $3.99 and ripped it apart. I also ripped the engine apart, cleaned it, drilled a hole just above the magneto shaft, then threaded the lamp fixture to the sparkplug hole. It wasn't perfect but I used a little piece of plastic to fill the gap to make it snug enough to hold the lamp in place. I reassembled the jug and put the magneto and drive sprocket covers back on, used my over priced $15 engine mounting hardware up front and relocated the acorn nuts from the intake manifold to the back studs to give them a rounded point.
I haven't spliced the cable back together but aside from that it works.
I had actually been planning on turning the motorbike engine into a lamp once I wore the little engine out, unfortunately that day came a little too quickly...but I ran to Goodwill and got a cheapo matching lamp for $3.99 and ripped it apart. I also ripped the engine apart, cleaned it, drilled a hole just above the magneto shaft, then threaded the lamp fixture to the sparkplug hole. It wasn't perfect but I used a little piece of plastic to fill the gap to make it snug enough to hold the lamp in place. I reassembled the jug and put the magneto and drive sprocket covers back on, used my over priced $15 engine mounting hardware up front and relocated the acorn nuts from the intake manifold to the back studs to give them a rounded point.
I haven't spliced the cable back together but aside from that it works.
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