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chicamacomico
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Posted on Monday, August 27, 2018 - 07:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Is someone familiar with open spark ignition. I was told it was used in old marine engines and it was dangerous because it was exposed. I have not been able to find this and I wonder if it was misinterpreted to be a Make and Break low tension ignition with an "open circuit". The application is a 3 cylinder (or six opposed) Van Auken/Aristox engine from about 1917. The boat was the famous No. 1046 Beebe-McLellan Self Bailing Motor Surfboat at Chicamacomico Coast Guard that rescued 42 sailors off the SS Mirlo that was torpedoes in 1918 off Rodanthe, North Carolina. www.chicamacomico.org
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jb_castagnos
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Posted on Monday, August 27, 2018 - 09:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The only open ignitions I know of would be slide valve and hot tube, a burner heated a tube protruding from the cylinder head until red hot, the gasses were forced into the tube by compression and ignited. Slide valve used a pilot light to light the gas. 1917 would have been late for a gasoline engine to still be using this, oil engines used a torch to heat the head to encourage ignition, this would have still been in use.
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miro
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Posted on Friday, August 31, 2018 - 01:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Going back a bit ( 12 years) there are drawings that show a spark plug in that engine

http://www.oldmarineengine.com/discus/messages/1/2415.html

Miro
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chicamacomico
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Posted on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 10:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Miro, I believe I see two ports for spark plugs per cylinder. Why would there be two if the combustion chamber is shared between the opposing pistons?
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ernie
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Posted on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 02:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Many marine engines used dual ignition (double spark plugs) for dependability
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chicamacomico
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Thank you gentlemen. This is very helpful. Now we just need to find one of the old Van Auken/Aristox engines to put into our 1046 Surfboat. Not very likely it appears, but worth a shout out. I reckon, we may have to settle for some kind of visual replica.
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raa
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About 5 years ago I acquired a 5 hp Kahlenberg and after making a igniter thanks to Dave Deardorf I was able to get it running. I was told that Kahlenberg had all the build records and after talking to the sales manager I got information it was shipped to a E T Seglem on April 10 1913. I thought it would be cool to see if I could locate anyone with E t's last name. The first blind call got me E Ts great great grandson! after week or so I got the enclosed picture of Grandpa's boat.There is some talk of Peter Seglem coming down to the house this summer to see it running.

Dick

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