1944 C-15A-Wire-5 Restoration

[Robert Bergeron]

Thanks Bob C . Good advice . God bless & Merry Xmas !!!

[Robert Bergeron]

Bob C. , i had to work on a project even on Xmas Day ! Intalled Gen 2 , the second Chorehorse today because i was dreaming about it last night ..... So this is option 1 with two 300 Watt 12 V Chorehorses . Connected the wires and the exhaust , turned on the proper switches and had BOTH generators running and charging BOTH battery banks ! The other option of course is one Chorehorse and one 110 V Onan 1000 Watts generator . Nice having both options available ... Merry Xmas !

[Wayne Hingley]

Nice work Robert. Im curious how loud it is with the generators running and all the compartments closed up?

[Robert Bergeron]

Thanks for your nice words . It’s noisy Wayne ! I made rubber pads for the supports so that reduces the noise considerably . The fact that they both exhaust outside helps also . The original had a muffler under the body so i installed one on the 1 inch line . It is bearable . I wish i knew how to post a video here it would be neat to let you hear it .

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

I made rubber pads for the supports so that reduces the noise considerably ..

I ain't going rubber pads on my HUW chorehorse. It's metal on metal crankin' out the decibels all the way baby!!!

[Bob Carriere]

If you have ever been to an antique engine collector how you would see civilian Chore Horse running and fitted with a 20 foot section of flex pipe fitted with a cast iron ball type sound breaker.....which they usually buried in a few inches of loose dirt.

The noise level becomes quite subdued and muffled.

Any reason why the military would not have used a similar contraption????

Bob C.

[rob love]

The chorehorses did come with that flex line for burying into the dirt. I think you just transferred the regular muffler over to the flexpipe, but won't say for sure. It's been a lot of years since I worked with them.
It made them very very quiet.