Topic: any old honda stuff

[dave500]

how good is any old Honda stuff?i found an old Honda generator the other day,its missing the fuel tank,air filter and one engine cover,i picked it up for its copper but thought id toy with it first,gave it a quick look over and it started 2nd try no #$%*!puffed a little blue smoke then ran clean,i ran a lamp of it and a drill,i gotta tinker with the governor yet,ill end up making a new frame affair for it etc,ditch whats left of the plastic plug board,it looks like crap but its another great running Honda!

[madmtnmotors]

Nice find! I'll give ragged out old Honda generators a second look from now on...

The Honda generators tend to be some of the quietest as well.

[honda_dog]

I've got an old Honda tiller, passed down to me from my father. It's better than 25 years old, still starts first pull....

[Stev-o]

It's unbelievable what you find in the bins, Dave.

[ekpent]

It's unbelievable what you find in the bins, Dave.

May even find a body someday     

[Stev-o]

It's unbelievable what you find in the bins, Dave.

May even find a body someday     

I *think* he may have found his wife!

[flybox1]

Ive got my dads honda mower (HR214)  The deck is a little beat, but it starts easily 1-2 pulls.
Its gotta be 30+ years old....

[Killer Canary]

Hard to believe this stuff is so old. I still remember when "Made In Japan" was the kiss of death.It took them a while to start building cars that didn't rust out prematurely.

[TwoBigCats]

my honda generator is 25 years old, runs like new. mower is 15, runs like new.

if honda made a toothbrush, I'd buy it.

[Retro Rocket]

Hard to believe this stuff is so old. I still remember when "Made In Japan" was the kiss of death.It took them a while to start building cars that didn't rust out prematurely.

I don't know, I have a 1967 Mazda 1500, very little rust , nothing structural, immaculate interior and still has the original, untouched running gear...She's a very solid car....

[faux fiddy]

I have a dead coleman generator, but I think it is revive able from what I read.

You take a drill motor, plug in style and plug it in to the gen set. Then you spin up the drill to create a current that activates the fields of the generator to make it works.

It will probably need done if it sat unused for a long time.

[dave500]

I haven't had a bike project for a while but im always tinkering around with similar stuff,so this is my latest Honda project?not worthy of the project thread so ill dump it here,i decided to knock up a steel frame using the power panel cut off from the stock plastic body for ease,it has all the labels for stuff then,not much to it,ill get some decent rubber feet for it,might paint the thing aswell,under that plastic Honda cover these are unpainted!its only a 1000 watts at 240 volts,it runs 1100 watt 125mm angle grinder fine even loading it up heavily,for a joke I tried my welder and it hardly made a spark!still have to figure out a decent tank and mount for it,all the tanks I find on old lawn mowers and weed wackers are odd shapes to suit the housings with dumb plastic clip set ups that are always broken etc and look crap to mount easily,im working on it.

[ThomasD883]

Why not use an old 500 tank. Dosent have to be pretty , just hold fuel , right?

[dave500]

ha yeah,i want it to be compact,unless I use a knee dented tank and a pod and open pipe and make a café generator out of it?

[demon78]

Great stuff Dave.
Bill the demon.

[seanbarney41]

ha yeah,i want it to be compact,unless I use a knee dented tank and a pod and open pipe and make a café generator out of it?

just make sure it's got enough juice to run the coffe pot!

[Stev-o]

ha yeah,i want it to be compact,unless I use a knee dented tank and a pod and open pipe and make a café generator out of it?

just make sure it's got enough juice to run the coffe pot!

And use pods for stainers to make the coffe?

[dave500]

is it worthy of a couple of fake bullet hole stickers?i also found a year or so ago one of those Honda four stroke weed wackers,the shaft was bent and what not but I kept the engine to see how it could run upside down and not flood oil into the combustion chamber,anyway I got it running fine and put it on gumtree (like craigs list) as an engine to power a skate board or bicycle and got 30 bucks for it!it ran fine!they have a weird cam shaft and rocker set up where a single lobe runs both valves with an under over looking rocker arm pivot jigger,almost a desmo set up?

[scottly]

The oldest machine I ever resurrected was a Graham-Paige roto-tiller, made in about 1946. I bought it for 5 bucks, and after cleaning the tank of the foul smelling fuel residue and replacing the steel cable for the re-coil starter got it to run. After tilling the old man's back yard, I sold it for $30, which was a nice profit for a 14 year old at the time. I found a pic of a similar model...

[jerry h]

Hey Dave, you going to powder coat the frame?

[Terry in Australia]

We used to have those baby Honda gennies when I was in the Army Dave, they were pretty useless as 1000W wouldn't run a fridge or a kettle, but it'd be OK for a drill or an angle grinder, in fact I've got a Bunnings 800W gennie that I'd use when we had a power outage to run some lighting and the TV.

I bought another Bunnings gennie (3KVA, from memory) for 200 bucks on special a few years ago, it'll run anything in my house, so in summer when all my neighbours fire up their refrigerated aircon and blow the local transformer up, I can still enjoy cold beer or a cup of coffee, lighting and TV. Interestingly enough, the larger Bunnings Gennie is a Honda knockoff, and appears to be pretty good quality. Cheers, Terry.

[dave500]

The oldest machine I ever resurrected was a Graham-Paige roto-tiller, made in about 1946. I bought it for 5 bucks, and after cleaning the tank of the foul smelling fuel residue and replacing the steel cable for the re-coil starter got it to run. After tilling the old man's back yard, I sold it for $30, which was a nice profit for a 14 year old at the time. I found a pic of a similar model...

love it,i used to scrounge the dump as a kid and get old lawn mowers going,never sold them but just got the engine running and toy with it,old push bikes etc,thats how I started out,now I have free access to old #$%* all the time and im the original "Steptoe"!

[dave500]

got a tank mounted up,ill make some rebar loops as lifting handles from the frame each end and rubber feet, a lick of paint and the café racer generator will be done.

[strynboen]

nice tank..used on italy"aspera"s lavnmowers...in europa..i have one ,,just the same..for kaburettor vaccum syncro..and stasonary test of kaburator banks for leaks

[dave500]

that tank came off a Suzuki lawnmower.