Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

Pretty cool

It’s funny, I often think to myself “I wonder what the older fellas in scrounge think about……”

Lot of wisdom in the group of guys in this thread

I couldn't agree more. Figured this was the beast group to ask about something like this. If nothing else, everyone would like seeing a pretty cool model engine.

 

[MustangMike]

Looks like a little hit and miss engine to me. Pretty cool. Looks like you could power stuff from the "drive" side. The heavy flywheel should keep it moving.

 

[sean donato]

Looks like a little hit and miss engine to me. Pretty cool. Looks like you could power stuff from the "drive" side. The heavy flywheel should keep it

Yes, there's a pully to run a belt on it opposite the flywheel. I'm assuming it had a purpose at some point, you can see some wear in the groove like a belt was running in it.
I'm having a really hard time figuring out what type of engine it is, it doesn't seem to fit into any one class. There's no carb, no govenor, no hot/glow tube. You light the wick, and slide it under the tin shield, and it's supposed to run after you give it a spin. I'm leaning more towards an odd ball hot air/ stirling engine, but I can see the cylinder is full of soot/ carbon so I'm sure it's some sort of "internal" combustion engine.