I have a 2 stroke engine, what can i do with it?

[Elite Engineer]

I have an old leaf blower with a 25cc 2 stroke engine. The plastic casing cracked making the leaf blower useless, but I took the out the engine and it is perfect condition.

 

-Any ideas on what I could do it (besides sell it)? I don't have ALOT of tools so I can't mount it on a bike but that would be hella sweet though.

 

-Thanks

 

~EE

[Acme]

Hook it to an automobile alternator to charge a battery for emergency use.

[Elite Engineer]

Hook it to an automobile alternator to charge a battery for emergency use.

you mean if the alternator can't be used?

[Enthalpy]

- Keep as much of the leaf blower as possible, assemble some refractory bricks, put coal, you have a forge or an iron smelter.

- Aerate water basins, produce trouts.

- Build a model aeroplane or boat.

- Propel a pirogue.

- Couple a water pump, fight floods.

 

I suppose Acme meant: lack of electricity in your house.

[Acme]

you mean if the alternator can't be used?

No; I mean get a working alternator at the junk yard. One that is not in use in any car that you then connect to your motor with belt & pulleys. You will also want the voltage regulator from a car and a 12V battery. Now when you have no other power, whether out in the wilds or power goes out at home as Enthalpy mentioned, you will have a generator & storage system run by your motor. Add an inverter and you can power 120AC devices from the battery.

[John Cuthber]

Run the engine at three o'clock in the morning and annoy the neighbours.

 

(You didn't ask for useful things you could do with it)

[Acme]

Run the engine at three o'clock in the morning and annoy the neighbours.

 

(You didn't ask for useful things you could do with it)

For this application I recommend removal of the muffler.

[Delbert]

Use Gaffer or Duct tape to repair the cracked plastic blower housing. I believe such tape has been used to repair just about anything, often rendering the item better and stronger than before! I understand it's even been used to maintain human life aboard a space capsule.

[barfbag]

@ OP,

 

I don't have ALOT of tools so I can't mount it on a bike but that would be hella sweet though.

 

 

A variation of this would be building a push trailer (like video below). Then anyone could use it on their bike.

 

 

I recently bought a pump to water my grass from the canal so I might've tried building a pump (not really), but the idea is fun.

 

I'd go push trailer.... If you cannot borrow tools... hmmm.

 

A Jigsaw is better than a Skillsaw (not always obviously) because it can cut straight or curved, but it takes longer. I'd try to get a Jigsaw, and a drill (power screwdriver type). With those two tools you can build many things.