Chicago electric 2 stroke GENERATOR abandoned for 10 YEARS. Part 1

We got this Chicago Electric generator Item #66619 from an abandoned house. It had been 10 years since the owners lived in it. No idea how long before that that is generator had run.
This is an older model of the Tailgator and Stromcat generator. This one was sold by Harbor Freight and is rated at 800 watt / 900 watt max.
I'm hoping this will be a simple project but you never know with abandoned items.
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[@BigBlock402]

I got through many storms with one of those 1000 watt generators. Good job getting it running.

[@113Cycles]

I'm excited to have this one. I also got a much larger Porter cable generator from the same house. I'm ready for storms now.

[@juhajuntunen7866]

I have one like that, it need some warming time with choke partially closed.

[@113Cycles]

This one takes awhile to warm up fully as well. Thanks for watching

[@HabitationIntention]

Nice video, I love your production quality. Keep it up!

[@113Cycles]

Thanks, will do!

[@timwindsor03]

Awesome video brother RYAN. Glad you got it going. Thanks for sharing. Keep the content coming. Hope you have an incredible night. Much love and RESPECT brother

[@113Cycles]

Thanks! You too!

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

I have three of these, bought one and it saved my butt severak times so I've been collecting them whenever I find them and now when the power goes out they get fired up as need arrises.

[@113Cycles]

That’s my plans for this one

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

@@113Cycles I swap between freezer and fridge (icemaker gets disabled while doing this) or I run these on seperate gens depending on the circumstances. These are older design hermetic rotary compressors, not the fancy electronically modulated type.

[@strongrootsresources8324]

Hey, thanks for a clear, concise video. I was able to replace a carb, spark plug, fuel line and get this little unit back in service for a neighbor.

[@113Cycles]

Glad it helped. Thank you for watching

[@moogle9168]

You lost me at Ryobi 😅😅 kidding. Great video!

[@113Cycles]

😂😂😂 Thanks for watching. Hope it helped you

[@marcellomarcantonio3217]

A major point was the valve(beautiful design) was plugged both ends, the top of valve was a surprise with a filter ( plugged) sprayed with either n it started.

[@113Cycles]

Thanks for the info!

[@marcellomarcantonio3217]

Fuel/oil is little confusion. 50/1 implies that , 50 grams of fuel requires one gram of oil.
A tea spoon has 6 grams
Thank you for your response

[@juhajuntunen7866]

​@@marcellomarcantonio3217SI measures, 5 liter gas and 0,1 liter 2 stroke oil. Simple, isnt it?

[@seanmckay3392]

You know you could've just took the linkage right off the carb nice air compressor setup though

[@113Cycles]

Thank you, I did not know that. I guess I should have looked at it more. 👍👍

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

Correct, avoid screwing with the governor if possible.