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    WW2 US Army Homelite Generating Set

    Interesting, you talk about lubricants. I've been thinking about this & I was going to use the original mixture, but straight oils are quite expensive these days, & like you say, it'll be hard to start (I believe these units could use the 27v DC genny as a starter, so this probably wasn't such...
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    WW2 US Army Homelite Generating Set

    400Hz isn't such a massive problem over here, in the UK, as our houses all run on 240v anyway, so I was only going to power some light bulbs from it (we use 110v on our construction sites, for safety, so 110v incandescent light bulbs are pretty easy to come by). It certainly is a neat little...
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    WW2 US Army Homelite Generating Set

    Hi, I have recently started to restore a WW2 Homelite US Army generator. I understand these old Homelite sets are quite common over there, but over here, in the UK, they are quite rare. So far I am learning as I go, this is quite a complicated machine, but very well engineered. Basically I am...
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