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#ALAMO ENGINE PHOTO GENERATOR#
I'm not familuar with the Alamo engine, except that I have a friend who has a Silent Alamo Generator and he can't get the carburetor/mixer to work right. They only had about an inch and a quarter "stroke". The sleeves didn't have any rings on them so they would lose compression until they got carboned up. I was told that the multi cylinder cars compression would increase as the car was driven and carbon would form around the sleeves. The intake and exhaust "sleeves" were connected to the small "valve crankshaft" by very short brass connecting rods, which were bears to hook up (sorry Gary). The sleeves were operated by a small brass crankshaft that replaced the standard cam shaft. A possibility is that a 'C' prefix would indicate that a particular Alamo left the foundry equipped with the Wico 'EK' magneto, but this remains to be proven.
#ALAMO ENGINE PHOTO SERIAL NUMBER#
Alamo City Corvair Association, profile picture. The majority of engines leaving the Alamo Engine Company after engine 110,000 had the letter 'C' forming part of an Alamos serial number and stamped on the engine. I also had two of these generators and they were pretty quite runers. Discussing a future Tom Knoblauch engine re-build for a vintage dune buggy Its a beautiful car and will. Here's a picture of a Willis "Knight" engine generator (curtesy of "Genertor Gus"). Here's a link to an explanation and cut away of a "Knight Sleeve Valve" engine. The last I knew of it, it was in central Wis. I traded it for 2hp teardrop Stover/Economy and a 2hp Fuller & Johnson. I once saw an ad in an old farm magazine from that era. The oil pump and fuel pump were intact as was the control panel. It had only one main bearing with the con throw sticking off the end of it. Another unique feature was the blind crankshaft. The lubricating oil was pumped up to the top of the sleeve and some that seeped past the outer sleeve rings would be sucked into the ports. As the name implied, it was very quiet but it also smoked quite a bit. It did run very nicely and it did generate 32 volts. I was never able to get the oil sealing rings on the outside of the sleeve to seal properly. The sleeve rotates at 1/2 crank speed and has 3 ports in it. A very unique design for a 4 stroke engine. I shrank a new timing gear on the sleeve and machined the "valve" ports where it appeared to need them. 2.I rebuilt a Silent Alamo in my collection 30 some years ago. Learn about this engine and 38 others in Coolspring: Discovering America’s Finest Antique Engine Museum, Vol. Exhibiting moderate wear from extended use, it presumably furnished electric power at a large home somewhere in New England. This engine originally drove a Diehl 5-kilowatt, 125-volt direct-current generator. This particular engine was previously in the private collection of Murray Clark, proprietor of the famous (for his trained bears) Clark’s Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Few engines of this type survive, possibly indicating a high selling price resulting in very limited sales. (Image: Sachin Gokhale/) Bajaj Pulsar F250. We were opportune enough to get our hands on the new Pulsar F250.
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This design features Alamo’s trademark “three-ball” sensitive, centrifugal governor, forced-feed mechanical lubrication to the crankshaft bearings and cylinder, a timed chain-driven low-tension ignition dynamo, a pneumatic intake valve motion-dampener, and a complex dual-fuel throttling-style carburetor with adjustable combustion air pre-heating. In Pics: Bajaj Pulsar F250 First Ride - Closer Look at Design, Features, Engine and More.
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Produced in sizes ranging from 10 to 60hp, it shares only a few general features with their other “consumer grade” models. Introduced sometime prior to 1913, this volume-governed, oil-burning engine design - more complex and robust than some other Alamo designs - could be considered Alamo’s “commercial” model.