I was a 63B30 (Gen Mech) in the Army in the 70's . We had these along with 3KW and 5KW gens. They are some real work horses.

Hey, due to your mentoring I patiently took the shrouds off of my lawn mower and found the fuel bowl. wondered how you are so patient. LOL! checked the float and cleaned the bowl. Used a little carb cleaner , let it sit, checked the oil, low! cleaned and gaped the plug. "it started after a few pulls. Thanks for the tutoring!

The generator motor is a,,, 2A016 Military standard engine rated at 3 hp it is 2 cylinder 16 cu in. (262cc) It is underrated at 3 hp as most military equipment is underrated. It is probably closer to 7 or 8 hp at 3300 rpm. It was originally designed by Continental but manufactured by several companies for the military. They were manufactured from 1958 through the mid 1980s. early models were point ignition but later ones are electronic It has a 3/4 inch shaft with a tapered end cut for a woodruff key. parts are available on line from Saturn Surplus in Pennsylvania Hope that helps you out..My husband took one of those engines, took all of the shrouding off, cut the fins off of the flywheel along with a few other modifications. It's a really sweet looking "board track" engine under all of that!.

i looked up that government contract number and it looks like it was part of a materials contract delivered to Saigon...cool piece of history

The Maimin foam cutter is worth some bucks if it works.. approx $500.00 on Ebay.. Car upholstery people would love it..

I got a twin cylinder Kubota diesel 7.5kw generator a month ago for $75 run good but no power output $35 capacitor and it was back to putting out just like it was supposed to. Man offered $3000 cash for it last week. Yes I sold it. I wish I could do that every week... lol. I had $110 and 1 hr tied up on it.

The device around the 2:00 mark is a production fabric cutter. Layers of fabric are laid out on a cutting table, and they use it like a jigsaw to cut around the patterns, making multiple copies. They can cut through dozens of layers at the same time, the presser foot on the front only holds the fabric down, it doesn't move.

I love spending the last 6 minutes of my sunday with a mustie vid. Actually how i spend the last minutes of every sunday. Its a great way to finish off the weekend

the top cover comes off and the 120/240 switch is inside as is a wiring schematic, On the schematic, look at the top left corner of the diagram. You will see 2 wires marked F1 and F2 - these are the field. They go to pins 7 and 8 of the 8-pin terminal block (TB1), and from there on to the voltage regulator. you need a D cell battery with wires attached to the + and-- of the battery. with the generator running you quickly touch and remove the wires from the battery to the #7 and#8 terminals. this will give the field a jump start and the voltage needle should pop right up. it needs to be running at full speed not at idle. continental was main contractor for those engines but they sub contracted production out and chrysler and wisconsin also produced them.

Found this one quite interesting. Looking forward to seeing when you get a chance to look into the electrical side of the generator.

Wow, the thing after the fan is a fabric cutter. My father had a few of them in his textile factory. It's used to cut thick stacks of fabric like butter and does it beautifully

That material cutter is used for cutting cloth....big stacks, like a hundred at a time...used one in a mattress factory I once worked in.

That Generater is a 1.5 kw we use to use it when I was in the Army we use to run light sets and film projector ect. When we were in the field. I got out in 1990 and was still in use .

Holy Crap! That material knife is a score! My old man’s friend used to own an aftermarket motorcycle seat company that cut the leather with those. I remember him bragging they were $1000 ea back in the early 80’s (I was 10 and visiting his shop is one of those cool dad memories you never forget)

your material cutter is for cutting stacks of cloth, it's used for cutting out the same pattern of clothes. you actually push it through the stack following the pattern.

I saw a similar generator like this once and it had a Wisconsin engine on it. A very fine running engine. Built for heavy duty use.

That MATERIAL CUTTER is just that . Made for dress, clothes, manufacturers. My grandmother worked for a company that made clothes. They stacked material 20/30 layers thick, then put pattern on top and cut with the machine you have.

Mustie1, nice score on that generator. Has a cool factor to it. Happy to see something that old saved and still semi-working. Hope to see you dig in to that thing soon.

Great finds 🖒 like the military generator

The cutter is for production shops cutting layers of material around 8" tall. Used in clothing factories.

OD green...ugh...but the military sure had "the good stuff." Nice closing bit with the Texaco gas station. Looks like focus frenzy has you covered on getting the generator up and running again, too. What you don't know, your subs do. What a great channel. Thanks, Mustie!!

the gen is a 1.5 kw gas fueled, out is 110 volt don't remember the watts. worked on many of them when I was in the army. they are good gens simple and straight forward to work on. love your vids keep it up.

I worked In a glove factory in the 70's we used the cutter for heavy asbestosis cloth. to sharpin the blade

At one time in my life, my next door neighbour was a professional sewing machine mechanic. His customers were the many sewing shops around East London, UK. His side line was buying machines that were surplus, refurbishing them and then selling them on. He occasionally brought home cutting machines like the one in your video. The sewing shop would have a pile of many pieces of cloth with the pattern on the top piece. The cutter operator would apply the machine to the pile, following the pattern. These machines were/are notoriously dangerous, they'll cut fingers as well as fabric!

That's really great for our tweaking hoarder addictions nice fabric saw I glad it didn't chase after you that's a cool machine,that could be a cool epi for will it chew up a chicken ?!,at lease you got that Garmin screen 👍👌that generator that was great two and that back to that future was cool too thanks Mustie!¡!!!

Weather so nice, I knew you had to go "scrounging"..... ok.. ok... yard sale-ing then. Nice little haul anyway. Glad Everything works. Cutter was interesting.

I wonder if that could be used for upholstery work? GPS might only need to be updated on your computer if it's more than a year or two old. Sometimes the newer ones you don't have to pay for that update. Now everybody knows about where you live with the GPS finding a satellite. You really did great with what you found no question, keep up the good work of selective garage sailing. I love the ending, my kind place to walk around and stop in an antique soda cabinet and sit on the front porch drinking it.

Wow! If I ever had a plug that janky I'd give the neighbor-kid $1.00 to plug it in for me.

That material cutter is for cutting large bolts of material. They also use it for sail making and tarp construction. A neat tool to have.

The cutter is a fabric cutter for cutting layered fabric. You stack up 30-40 layers of fabric on a flat and smooth surface (large table), put your pattern on top and then you cut following the lines. Used in the manufacturing sewing industry to make pants, suits, etc.

Wow, I haven't seen one of those gennys for over 30 years now. It's a 1.5kw generator. There's a voltage regulator inside the panel where a transistor would fail and cause it not to work. I was a gen tech in the Army many years ago. There was only two that were manual start with a rope, yours and a 3kw. The next two were the 5 and 10 kw and they had a starter. Good luck

At 16yrs old, me and a friend bought an old taxi like ('66 was less than $500) that when I lived in Boston area. We spray painted it. Ran around Peabody and Malden "having "fun" with our girls in the humongous passenger area. It was a tank with a huge steering wheel (as I remember it). Easily get 10 teenagers in it to go roller skating and out to local water spots for skinny dipping fun..... haha.

Dave,that is a material cutter most commonly used for making squatch bits for a catalogue....worked in a squatch production catalogue business as a kid....this was used to cut through many layers of fabric... terrifying tool.

Foam cutter is awesome! Great find.

“I kinda want to hold the thirty”. Thanks mate, I’ll use that. Still learning.

The "cutter" is an industrial cutter for cutting clothing. In industrial situations, the cloth can be a foot or more in thickness and is cut to a pattern in "bulk." I have seen these used in the garment section of NYC.

We had one of those generators still in use in the mid to late 90’s. If memory serves me, it wouldn’t produce power in less it was grounded properly. I remember because it had a grounding rod with it and a braided harness to connect to the ground rod. The cable was forgotten while on a deployment and we couldn’t get it grounded and it wouldn’t produce power. I took several strands of 40 thousands safety wire and made a braided cable and grounded it, and it started producing power.

To re-excite the field you can plug in a 110v drill, have the generator running at working speed with outputs turned on, the drill will not run it there is no output. Now trigger the drill on and turn it BACKWARDS (may want to use a cordless drill to run it backwards fast enough). If it works, the 110v drill will start running the correct way and the generator is now producing power. Done it more than once.

Engine is a model 2A016-3, designed by Continental, gasoline, 3 hp, 16 cuin. Manufactured by several companies over time. Manual (Tech Order) is TM-9=2805=252=14. I have this TM and gen-set TM if you want or you can find online.

You're right, it's a material cutter. It cuts thick stacks of material laid out on a huge flat table. It's used to cut patterns for clothing. It rides on the table and works like a jigsaw

Addition or addiction, ha ha ,always great videos, appreciated in the UK

The maimin cutter is used for ‘table cutting’ pattern parts for garments etc. You would have along table and spread layers of fabric up to 36 ply. Single ply or double ply (such as upholstery) would not be efficient as the bottom of the knife going in and out would just catch the plys, (Rotary knifes are much more efficient on single layers.) Then a layer of pattern paper or chalked patterns would be cut with this knife. It literally is a long super sharp blade and usually featured a stone or belt sharpener that would auto sharpen the blade when needed , usually by pressing a lever. This knife looks to be from the 1930’s or 40’s and really is mostly decorative as it does appear to have a floating guard. A lever would be held on the side and foot would ride over the fabric. Without side guards it would not be usable. Even with a guard we would use chain or steel embedded knit gloves. Values depend really on the model and age, I grew up in the industry and we would buy these for between $50-$900. Most cutting today is done via a Gerber type autoknife (CAD Controlled) or with waterjet. Still a cool piece of industrial history.

Cool, the military metal desk and chairs are restorable and they sell good, and every mechanic could use a cheap double door wall locker to store tool kits. Anything military sells, even tow hooks, sub zero sleeping bags, pup tents, etc. I bought the last wall locker for $45 with a few dents but in good condition it's worth at least $100. The office chairs with springs are better than anything you by at office max. My old man has chair that look like one off Mash tv show that Hawkeye used it, Korea or Vietnam era stuff, good for 50+ years, maybe a 100 yrs if you recover the seat.

love this channel! i have learned so much

keep it! freakin surplus is made GREAT, I had a Leland Farady gen a long tine ago, Sliprings at one end and a commutator at the other end to provide the field. a.c. came off the sliprings!

Nice little generator. Motor runs well.

The cutter is a fabric cutter used in clothing factories would cut though a cloth lay up about 3 in thick

Engine is either Hercules or Continental. We had one of these when I was a kid living on Okinawa in 1967.

I used to run a material cutter at our local tent manufacturer. You could cut multiple layers of fabric with that cutter. I cut a chunk of my thumb off after an all night bender. Drank all night went right to work. True words do not run any machinery when you are inebriated!!!

Generator brings back memories. I was a 52 Delta . Power Generator Operator

I laughed when the cloth cutter label was shown....Maimin? That thing be killin!

Man Im so jealous of that military generator , that's one hell of a find bro, a lucky find. Thats certainly something that's not easy to come across. I bet it will last forever with a little love to get it up to par first .I want it

I love military surplus equipment because for the most part it's not used very much before the date of obsolescent which means after so many years its junked and new equipment is sent to replace it even if it was never used, well not junked you get the idea. So its always a pretty good bet when it comes to old surplus.

Cutter is for commercial amounts of cloth cutting. I worked at a place that made drapery samples and they cut sheets of material stacked 20 high.

Nice Sunday morning we're having!

I have used one of these 30 years ago. It is used for cutting up to 50 layers of cloth material in one go. Used in the rag trade. The mechanism that runs up and down is the blade sharpener. This machine would have been very expensive when new. I doubt whether it would pass workplace health and safety these days!

The "material cutter" is used in the garment industry and it's usually called a "pattern cutter". Large pieces of material (cloth such as cotton, wool etc) are laid out in thick stacks on a huge table with a pattern laid on top. A worker then cuts around the pattern then the stack is sent to the sewing room where a number of people sew the pieces together to make a shirt, pants, skirt or whatever their making that day. The foot that moves up and down in front of the blade is used to compress (lightly) the material to keep the stack and pattern from shifting. There is a very similar cutter used to cut thick dense foam but there is a difference in the pro model.

cool little gen set there Darrin , Thumbs up !!

my mom used to have couple of those cutting machines (not exactly like that one but the same concept pretty much) and they were used to cut thick amounts of fabric when cutting molds to produce clothes, such a flashback

The material cutter is used to cut layers of heavy cloth on patterns to make outdoor wear and duffel bags. You line up the cut to be made then push the cutter along by the handle along the pattern or a straight line. The bars protect the pattern and the blade cuts through like if it was butter. Watch those fingers though. You can cut them off without realizing it.

Generator runs smooth! Good motor for a project bike if you can't fix the electrical.

Musti: I used many of these gas generators in Army field radio locations. You will find them to be over designed, reliable and very useful. I would say the era of that genset would be late seventies.

Great finds there mustie

Looks like 18mm aviation spark plugs on the military generator. I've got a few low-time spares if you need some. DO NOT crank the plug wire caps tight and crack the caps. Finger tight, then snug with two wrenches, one on the cap, one on the wire nut to keep from twisting. Also, I believe the Garmin has an addl stay-alive battery inside, too.

Thanks ! The military generator looks cool

We used those generators long after Desert Storm. They were well known for being cantankerous and hard to start, but were at least quiet (sarcasm). I would rather see that generator engine become a powerplant for another bike project.

So it was a great haul. Shirts work, foam cutter works, Garmin works (btw, if it's the same as the one you bought, keep the broken one for parts (board and the like, only the screen is broken after all), fan works, gennie needs some TLC. Nice catch.

..we had cutters with that sort of blade to trim sheets of pink fiberglass insulation to custom sizes when I was a Temp in Toronto in 1987...

Very cool old tractors at the end of video ..

Great find as always🤙👍🤙

That my friend is a fabric cutter. Clothes makers can lay up a couple of hundred layers of fabric and cut them all in one hit. Best used with a chain mesh glove as they TAKE NO PRISONERS!! I drove one for twenty years. 🇦🇺👍

I have one of those generators. Chrysler made some, so did others. They also came in 4 cyl., horizontal opposed, like a mineature volkswagen engine. I like them.

That is actually used in furniture and upholstery shops to cut multiple layers of cloth. Very sharp blades.

That material cutter is for cutting a pattern from many layers of fabric for mass-producing garments, like 50 layers or so. And that up and down thing on the chain is the built-in sharpener. Yeah, when you're cutting a ton of fabric you need to run that sharpener quite frequently.

that cutter you use it like a jig saw when your cutting big patterns out of canvas n stuff like that . thats what that red handle is for on the back of it . we used one of these at the bass boat factory i worked at

We used to sale that Patton fan where I did work it has a life time warranty on the motor. I bought one and they replaced the motor after five years of use.

We had a very large - about 3x the physical size of this one's motor and generator - military generator from WWII, that we used during power failures. Eventually, the field went bad.

You find the coolest stuff!

I'd like to hit the yard sales in your area. We drive up to Memphis for yard sales about once a year and have found some neat stuff.

I love when he works on the generators.

I use to use one of the when I worked at a factory in the cutting department and we would put layers if whatever material we needed on a 100 foot table and then draw a pattern out on the top layer and use one of them to cut several layers out ar the same time. I haven't read comments or even watched the whole video yet but I saw that and it brought back alot if memories and most of which I didnt like because I didn't like working there

you sure know how to find some pretty neat stuff

Cool generator, haven’t seen one that small with 2 cylinders

Man, you find some cool stuff......

A lot of companies made them engines. They came in 1-2 and 4 cylinder, all using the same cylinder. The one I offered you is a single cylinder just like that one, but was made by Chrysler Outboard Co.

My Craftsman snowblower had the same problem, bent/broken bracket for the cable. I welded in a reinforcement, worked for one snowfall but then broke again. Replaced with new bracket, lasted two winters. Finally had someone make a replacement bracket from solid iron (student working in school shop) -- has been fine since. Original bracket is pressed metal, a weak, cheap design.

For cutting denim, would use it on a air table. Used for cutting out pattern pieces.

Doug&Bettsy from SV-seeker could use that to cut the sails for his boat.

Well after 2 full days of binge watching you fix junk, I’m hooked! You have my vote,like and subscription. Well done I’m a difficult unicorn to catch.

That motor sure sounds better than the two-stroke on my generator. Hope you got the generator to work.

Love your videos! Youn get some goood stuff man!

Another grate video, thank you :-)

Nice finds once again sir...

The knife is used in the garment industry. It's for cutting garments in production usually on a long cutting table with fabric stacked many layers high. Probably best bet is to advertise on Craigslist in New York or Los Angeles where they large garment manufacturing business districts.

this winter is going to be fun with a hoard like that.

I googled the Miamin material cutter. A new one costs around $2700.00. Great deal.

That is a fabric cutter. It is used to cut out many layers of stacked fabric at the same time. Used in garment factories.

I got a single cylinder model, looks like the same architecture. It's an air compressor. Parts are plentiful on the internet for you because I think the 1cyl parts will fit yours (minus the crankshaft obv.). I picked mine up for 75 dollars lol so im really effing jealous.

Re cloth cutter - I have seen one in action in a clothing factory. You take a wad of material, say 100 layers thick, with the pattern clamped to the top layer. It then works as would a band saw, and you finish, in double-quick time, with 100 neatly cut collars, cuffs, yokes or whatever. Accuracy depends on the experience of the operator. A curiosity rather than a functioning tool now since microprocessors have taken over.

I got a chuckle out of the name of that slicer... "MAIM-in". :-)