It’s Absolutely Ridiculous

I don’t think it’s even real because I’m not seeing a spark plug wire on the spark plug.

But now I want one.

Because it is, ridiculous.

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8 thoughts on “It’s Absolutely Ridiculous”

It’s actually a DIESEL. What appears to be a spar plug is an adjustment for the contra-piston used to regulate compression. Not all of them had that and those were quite a challenge to start.

Also… it very well may be a glow plug instead of a spark plug.

bustednuckles on June 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM said:

Good call, I never thought of that.
- Eric on June 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM said:
  
  Boneman is right it’s a glow plug. that engine is very similar to the one in the generator the Moose built if you remember it. Depending on the starting systems some will have a wire some won’t. Also it probably runs on Nitro (Castor oil) not Diesel. But I could be wrong on the fuel.
  
  Eric.
  - Boneman on June 21, 2026 at 2:58 AM said:
    
    Glow engines have a platinum filament that reacts with the nitromethane. I’ve had many model airplane engines that run on it. You hooked up a battery to the plug to get it to glow and once it fired off you can unhook it and it continues to run.
    
    The old DIESELS ran on a far more volatile mixture if Nitromethane, ETHER, Amyl Nitrate and castor oil. They were notorious for not giving ANY warning as to if they were starting or not. I still have my Dad’s Drone Diesel from around 1941. It was not equipped with a contrapiston so it was not the easiest to start.
    - Igor on June 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM said:
      
      Same here, Boneman – I have several of those types from my Grandfathers’ collection. Never gonna sell them.
      I also have one with POINTS and even a Champion-branded spark plug. Don’t have the original coil, but easy to build one if I wanted to…