yes it is wet sleeve, and also comes with a handcrank
and i am sure that gravity feed is no impediment to hand cranking the engine.
Doug:
it would seem you are a bit negative toward this engine, and i am wondering why?
this whole thing should be allowed to evolve, without evolution we would all be strapping down
maytag washer engine's and old delco 6volt generators to cob up some sort of power.
to me the mini petter had its place, its time in the sun, and found to be a bit more trouble than it was worth
was it a bad design? probably not, but if you can't get a decent build quality it is time to move on.
same with the listeroids, not a bad design actually a well proven design, but continuing QC problems, so time to move
on and try something else.
enter the redstone, in my opinion at least it has all the necessary components to make for a successful engine, the QC
is many times better than india to start with...
besides
continuing to do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
in my business i try to reserve judgement until i have had a chance to at least look an engine over, if upon inspection i see
what follows as classic design que's, high quality castings with good finish, clean and sharp machining, and if it appears to be modeled
after a successful design, then i can get excited about it. and why not?
kind of hard to get real excited about another listeroid, when 9 of 10 times the same sad story will be the result, no matter how
excited the seller is about his product and QC assurances from india.
it just seems like the redstone' time has come to step up to prime time and take its place competing with the twins and big singles.
pressed to make a bet, which would i put my last dollar on in a contest of longevity?
a typical listeroid twin (or big single) vs the redstone
the listeroid's fight card is not at all impressive, with its 1-0-999
where one in a thousand might have done well with no issues, 999 had all manner of issues
and there is no way to come out with a tie!
if the listeroid was a fighter no one would show up for the fight!
probably why the redstone came up,, maybe trying to sell a ticket to ownership of a listeroid was getting to be too few
and far between?
bob g