[FieldDay] FIELD DAY GENERATORS

[fieldday@mailman.qth.net]

The secret to long engine life, regardless of brand and type of bearings, is 
frequent oil changes. I change all my engine oil twice as often as specified, 
even the cars which are running on synthetic.  Knock wood, I have never had 
an oil related problem or bad bearings in any of them.  I have run up way 
over 200K miles on 2 GM engines and over 100K on several motorcycles.  Also, 
countless hours on generators. The cars died from rust, wrecks or other 
causes but the engines were like new. There was nothing wrong with the bikes 
or generators, just went larger. I am running a Sears Custom tractor with a 6 
HP Tecumseh engine from 1959.  Just used the front mounted snow blower to 
clear the 18" of snow out of my driveway! Sears doesn't carry the muffler any 
more but the Tecumseh doesn't know that.

My field day generator is a 2 cylinder 1.5K Onan dated 1944 and still running 
strong.

73,

John,  W4AWM


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