On Thu, 05 May 2016 00:18:02 +0000, BFR
wrote:

replying to Bruce L. Bergman, BFR wrote:
Many years later, here's an update. Two 12v car batteries wired in series and
hooked to the welder terminals (pos to pos, neg to neg) easily motorizes the
generator with the engine either hot or cold and it starts right up. I just
use a push button solenoid so, when the engine fires, I let go of the button
and the batteries are disconnected. To recharge the batteries, I installed a
one-wire 24 volt alternator on the engine. In retrospect, the alternator is a
waste of money as the batteries will start the engine many times before they
are discharged, and could easily be kept charged with a small solar charger or
a 110 v ac trickle type "maintenance" charger used to keep collection car
batteries charged. Also, although it was costly, I ended up taking the
clamshell fuel tank apart by grinding off the weld that joined the flanges on
each half of the tank; cleaned it down to bare metal with a wire brush, welded
the two halves back together and sent the tank off to a place in New England
somewhere that hot-dipped it in tin (not zinc). Zinc (galvanizing) will not
withstand ethanol but tin will.
It's a good thing you got that one wire alternator because I heard you
can use it to weld with.
Eric