Posted by David Sherman on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 6:26PM :
I got the pictures of that welder I mentioned on the last forum uploaded. All the pictures are thumnails. Click on them for bigger versions.
The engine is a 6-cyl continental with a magneto ignition, a welded-up crack in the block, and all the freeze plugs rusted out. The oil is clean and full, but it does not turn over via the fan. The electric end has nothing burned-out or cannibalized on it that I can see. It has a little bellows arrangement that apparently at one time injected an extra squirt of gas into the manifold whenever the welding current suddenly increased, sort of like the accelerator pump on a vehicle carburetor.