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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 2197
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009 - 11:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Jump or Tap Spark, or BOTH ?

This Phiadelphia mfgr advertised this engine in 1904.

Tap spark is a new term to me for mechanical or make and Break ignition ?

Anyone ever seen an engine with BOTH ??


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scott_n
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Post Number: 120
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009 - 03:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jump or tap spark is that when the top of the piston comes in contact with an electrode fore a split secant for dell then the spark jumps from the electrode to the piston as it's breaks ?
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ernie
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Post Number: 1065
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009 - 03:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think there was a 4 cyl Buffalo at Mystic one year with both Jump spark and make and break. We need a description of "tap spark" before we start associating them as the same thing. Assumptions can easily "rewrite" history.
Ernie
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richardday
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Post Number: 818
Registered: 11-2003


Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009 - 08:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ernie, makes a good point. To me make and break systems produce an arc rather than a spark. This is quite evident when looks at the erosion of the firing pin after long use. I would like to know if there was a system using what was called "Tap Spark"
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Dickie Gibbens
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Posted on Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 11:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Tap Spark Ignition System" put into Search engine "ASK" Gets plenty food for thought. The word "TAP" being a second connection is suggested in a two spark plug system. Plenty patent numbers.

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