Yesterday we got our propane fired engine running at the Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum. This engine originally powered a pump jack at an oil well and was sold by the Continental Supply Co., a subsidiary of Youngstown Sheet & Tube.
Here is a video if it running. It drives an air compressor but will also run an alternator to provide an alternate means of charging the solar batteries.
http://youtu.be/iCaXIA6SeVY (http://youtu.be/iCaXIA6SeVY)
Hey Rick - are you still thinking about animating the Tod Engine with an external
motor of some type, down the road?
That would be an eye-popper to see, for sure, with that huge flywheel and
pistons turning and pumping....