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HOW TO SERVICE YOUR CARBURETOR!!!   Local generator repairers get about 60% of their income frrom just changing or servicing the carburetor. This DIY will not only save you money but also workshop labour. Now i'm guessing you've tried to srart your generator at this point and it's not responding or it shoots and goes back off, now go to the steps below......... STEP 1: DISMANTLING THE CARBURETOR firstly loosen the tank so you'll get enough space. then loosen the cover covering the carburetor(for small gens). Then you get the carburetor's bolts, loosen them also, move the board forwad so you can get to your carburetor. Unlock the throttle cable from the carburetor linkage. 2: Place it in a container to catch the fuel coming out, open the carburetor from bottom(you'll see a short bolt) loosen the bolt & remove the bowl. check for corrosion if there's corrosion you'll probably be needing a sandpaper to scratch of the corrosion and make the bowl...

HI everyone, before we go back to the CARBURETOR i'd like to share with us something very important.  You might have tried or still trying some of these few steps on how to get your generator working but might have failed; OR you are learning basic studies of engineering through my blog & ain't seeing many successes.  A great woman once said "every great success has struggled with failure-everyone of them!!!!"Emma bombeck.  Everybody fails, the winners are just the ones that keep getting back up again. You are not a loser; really, the only way to be a loser is to fail & not look beyond it, or fail and let it define you as a failure.  Thomas Edison (INVENTOR OF THE INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB) said, "many of life's failure are just people who did not realize how close they were to succes when they gave up".  Failure is like a fertilizer; it is the stuff success grows in. Before Thomas Edison gave the world incandescent light, he conducted ...

Hi eveiryone, today i'll be sharing with us "WHAT A CABURETOR IS" And "HOW IT WORKS" A carburetor (American and Canadian spelling), carburator , carburettor , or carburetter (Commonwealth spelling) is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine. It is sometimes colloquially shortened to carb in North America or carby in Australia. [1] To carburate or carburet (and thus carburation or carburetion , respectively) is to blend the air and fuel or to equip (an engine) with a carburetor for that purpose. Carburetors have largely been supplanted in the automotive and, to a lesser extent, aviation industries by fuel injection.   Etymology The word carburetor comes from the French carbure meaning "carbide". [2] Carburer means to combine with carbon (compare also carburizing). In fuel chemistry, the term has the more specific meaning of increasing the carbon (and therefore energy) content of a fluid by mixing it...

Hi everyone, we still gonna be looking at more causes of generator hard starting. Another thing to watchout for is a free passage of fuel going from the fuel tank to the careburetor; if fuel is not going to the carburetor, then you could draw the generator for years without getting a response...  Now lets get down to work, but if you don't know how a generator works i'll suggest you check out my previous post on how generator works!!! HOW TO CHECK FOR FUEL BLOCKAGES.   firstly remove the pipe conneted to the tap that is fitted to the tank, ON the tap(turning it down vertically). if the fuel is running freely then that's not what's causing the generator to hard start, now connect the pipe back to tap. But if the fuel is not running freeely or not at all, then you need to loosen the tap. i start this process by first loosening the four(4) bolt of the tank....Now if it's a small generator there will be 4 bolts but for big Generators  it'll be six(four on top...

                                                      SPARK PLUG I've been asked alot of questions about generators in the my few years of being in the field, but one common question is the question of "hard starting"...well , hard starting in a generator both big and small can occur due to different reasons. I'm saying that not one particular component can cause it!! one common factor of hard starting is the PLUG. When the plug is bad or filled with lots of carbon, it can cause hardstarting.   HOW TO CLEAN OR REPLACE get your plug spanner, you can get one in any mechanical store.. Fit it in the plug then rotate or loosen in an anti clockwise way, when it's out clean with a needle or something tiny that can go into the...

on my previous post, i talked about how a petrol generator works and i also did some explanations on the main components.Now lets move on to how a small petrol generator works....                     SMALL GENERATOR All generators works with a process called internal combustion, it consists of different parts: Piston   A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms. It is the moving component that is contained by a cylinder and is made gas-tight by piston rings. Rings    A piston ring is a split ring that fits into a groove on the outer diameter of a piston in a reciprocating engine such as an internal combustion engine or steam engine. Spark plug     It is a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a...

OnlineGeneratorMechanic Do it yourself..... Having problems with reaching a mechanic within your area for your generators? It could be frustrating. OnlineGeneratorMechanic shows you that you can be a banker, lawyer e.t.c. and yet service/repair your generator yourself. Awesome right!!? OK, First let's see how generator works... The Generator Generators are useful appliances that supply electrical power during a power outage and prevent discontinuity of daily activities or disruption of business operations. Generators are available in different electrical and physical configurations for use in different applications. In the following sections, we will look at how a generator functions, the main components of a generator, and how a generator operates as a secondary source of electrical power in residential and industrial applications. How does a generator work? An electric generator is a device that converts mechanical energy obtained from an external ...