I have not had a chance, was about to bedore i had to go away, i will have it up asap when i get back home!
Cheers Ty
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I have a video of both my twin and compact, excuse my rambling on about this but they run ok.... My twin also has some sort of carb issue I am yet to sort.
It isn't easy to tell at no load, since it is 4 or 8 stroking continuously, but there is an odd sound as if possibly one cylinder is hitting harder than the other. Does it have a 2 cylinder intake manifold on a single carburetor? Might be a mixture distribution problem, or leakage between sections of the crankcase. However if it cleans right up when you put a load on it, I may be misdiagnosing the whole thing.
There is nothing wrong with my one, it runs perfect, a standard digital camera is poor for taking videos. They use a single carb that delivers fuel into the crankcase via reed valve.
There you go now it works.That's what I'm trying to find now,the lightweight.The only thing is I want one with a catcher.I guess that makes it harder again to find one.I'll just keep trying.I must admit eBay seems to be very quite for the collectable mowers at the moment.It's starting to get boring on there.
Joe, it would have to be either horizontally opposed with one crankpin (even firing every half revolution, but awful balance, as bad as a single) or horizontally opposed with two crankpins (the mechanical balance would be very good but the two cylinders would fire simultaneously and it would sound like a single). I had thought it would be single crankpin, because otherwise it seems senseless to make the thing. However from what it sounds like and what you've said, I take it it must be two crankpins. That way it would only need one reed valve and one crankcase cavity, because both cylinders would suck and blow at the same time as each other. The problem is, all it would be functionally, is a single cylinder engine with improved balance and hence less vibration. Seems an awfully expensive way to get improved balance. It does explain why the twin and the compact in your video sounded the same as each other though.
No wonder the model was dropped, it sounds like a crazy idea to me.
Yep, both cylinders fire simultaneously, pointless and expensive if you ask me, but it is a dream mower to use when it does come out. Also has a large cut and gets the job done quicker!
