I was feeling down at the news of Byron barkers death. When Allen Brickhaus and friends volunteered to sell Byron's engines, I decided to buy a few small capacity ones as a reminder of the man. So a few very pleasant emails were exchanged with Allen and a few days ago the parcel arrived. I was horrified to finds I had underestimated the postage and a quick email to Allen ensued, with a follow up of a $5 bill being sent of to cover my postal debt. Two days later and the bombshell of Allen's death was announced on the forum. I was upset as no doubt many others were. I started to look at the small engines to cheer myself up. My eye fell upon a rather pristine Enya 0.09 Mk 2. I was idly looking this over and this was the start of a very amusing tale!
  I first noticed that the liner was in the wrong way around, with the exhaust being blocked off, so I took off the head and rotated the liner 180 degrees until the exhaust port aligned with the case exhaust.
  I then noticed that the needle valve was stuck into the fuel inlet side of the spraybar, OK soon fixed that.
  I then had this sinking feeling that the piston was in the wrong way around, so I took off the head again and sure enough the piston was the wrong way around! So off with the front housing and the piston was rotated through 180 degrees and everything was put back together.
  Right, time to put on a prop and fire it up. Off came the prop nut and washer and on went a prop. Prop washer back in place and I then tried to tighten up the prop nut. Well it wasn't possible because the prop nut was not tapped all the way through its length!
  I was now getting very suspicious, looking down the venturi, I rotated the crankshaft, that's odd I thought, where is the induction hole in the shaft? there wasn't one! Taking off the front housing yet again, I looked at the end of the shaft, well blow me, no gas passage down the shaft centre!
  Wait a minute, I did not remember seeing an inlet port in the cylinder liner, off with the head again and sure enough no inlet port. The bypass grooves were in the crank case but no port to match in the liner!
  At this point there was a grin on my face! This must have been Byron's pet engine to catch out the unwary. I hardly dared to look any further, but did notice that there wasn't a filament in the glowplug.
  Thanks Byron and Allen for allowing me to become the owner of this tricky engine. It certainly cheered me up a little!

Happy New Year Everyone,

Andrew.
 

Hi Steve,
I am not sure what sort of sense of humour Ken has. He might not be too pleased that one of his engines was selected for such treatment!

Happy New Year,

Andrew.

Hello Dennis,
You could well be correct! It is odd that you query the transfer port arrangement as something was bothering me too, so much so, that I have the little Enya beside me and I was just going to strip it down again! I just happened to sit down with my coffee and took a look at SH and there was your post!


  Well that was interesting. You are correct in that the Enya 0.09Mk2 does have the transfer port cut on the inside of the liner. However I only found that out by stripping down another Mk2 that I have.
  I do need some new glasses, because I thought I could see the transfer ports in the crank case casting on Byron's engine. Well having taken a second good look they are not there! But neither are the transfer passages that should be there on the inside of the liner!
  I am not sure if the liner is a genuine Enya one, with someone having missed an operation, or if the cylinder has been specially made to catch the unwary like me. If so, it certainly succeeded, I am obviously not as smart as I would like to think.
  Thanks for the correction Dennis, strange that I was going to recheck the porting as your message came in!

Regards,

Andrew