Hello to all, This is my first post here on this forum, My name is Gene, AKA ekap1200. I am a profesional mechanic, ( heavy equipt. Deisel ) and have worked on many gas engines also. I changed careers 14 years ago and work doing military spare parts for a family owned machine shop, and welding shop. Here in the south jersey pinelands I work on most anything that rolls, pumps,walks or crawls. Coming of the age of 58 , a more simple way of making a living is leading me into small engine's. We have a small mower, ( snapper 8hp briggs ) that was passed down from my grandfather after his passing. It never would hold a charge , but had a pull start cord. As I finally got tired of pulling it I looked it over one winter and found the windings burnt and the insulators melted. Diode cracked and in an open condition. I remember my grandfather always complaining about it, and the dealers in Fla. would always just put a new battery in it. Well there was enough of the windings left to note the number of turns and the direction of the coils along with the wire gauge. Having access to a Water/Jet machine I fabricated some insulators and within a few hours had it rewound as the pic below shows
Well thought I had a pic. Had to post a smaller size. Keeps reporting the size is wrong but this image is 640 x 480. any thoughts on why I can not post this pic. ? I post to many forums powered by phpbb that allow the width to be 640 wide not 600 max.
I had no manual to work with and have had no trouble with keeping the batt at full charge, at full throttle I have a voltage of 16.2 DC off of the half wave rectifier diode that I had also replaced with a 5amp diode. That voltage is with a fully charged batt. Sure is nice for this old man to just turn the key. It worked so well that I also utilized the lighting coil to power one 55 watt fog light for the front which came in handy during our snow storms recently. Not getting home from work until dark, it make plowing the drive-way and walk ways a pleasure in the dark.
Well enough about me. Eugene Kapuscinski,
PS I am far enough south to have lawnmower racing in the area in the summer. LOL
