Is the briggs in the process of restoration mt? looks very old!
Thats a beasty generator! would take a few bullets
I dated the last engine i got at 10/51 which is october, 1951 - making this engine 59 years old to this day, i just have to pull the cover off the first engine tomoro, to date it.
Getting exited now, hope fully not too long before its going.
Cheers, Cam.
My Briggs 5S I forget, but I have the info on the old thing by Model Serial and I think it is two years younger than your old engine. It came off a self propelled reel mower that said Moto Mower Company founded in 1919. So I guess they had about 30 years of good business, but they person leaving it all at the curb could have taken better care not to get it rained on and rust the exhaust valve in place. If anyone has info on that company let me know. I guess since it came with a Briggs when it was trashed, I think maybe try to contact Briggs about Moto Mower?
The mix-up on not seeing the clearest pic on the post #2 about the muffler I now know what you mean now. If you check out and look at the 6th picture down on this web page of The World of Motor Cycles dot com about a 1914 Indian, you see the same a pipe cut at an angle pointed downward. No baffles in the short piece of pipe. Just like I guess most piston driven aircraft, no baffles or resonators, damn noisy!
Vintage Indian Motorcycle Photos
I heard one of the WW2 vets speaking when I was on the B17 tour talk about what really help protect other than thin skin aluminum of the aircraft, it was the radio sections that had RF shields.
Maybe that’s why a lot of that stuff, especially with wire wound transformers that included iron core, instead of today’s switching supplies, are called boat anchors! They can stop some stuff, but really you would have to be lucky to be at the right angle to have it protect you in that manner.
I suspect this radio component some time took the hit instead and so it was mentioned.
I know of a similar kind of event where I guy from a company that at the time was making underwater direction finding for scuba and some to military. The military version he was trying out in Monterey, CA had a way thicker aluminum cover on the console attached to the high pressure hose. A great white shark put him in the hospital, but his torso was not affected.
The more vulnerable area than legs and shoulder got protection from the scuba cylinder and the console. The meat was his belly in the sandwich. Teeth marks were made in the tanks and the console, and he just got static pressure bruise in the torso.
Let’s all be that lucky!
Ride safe!!!
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