re: Small generator maintenance

Two ways to do this if your generator doesn't produce voltage after you start it. One requires you to wear leather gloves and have really strong wrists. The other requires you to cut the male end of a cheap extension cord off and strip the ends of the wires back about a 1/4 inch.

The glove method: Take a 120 volt drill and plug into the running generator. Pull the trigger full and then turn the chuck with your free hand. This will cause the drill motor to induce a magnetic field and re-excite your generator coil. When it happens the drill will come to life and might sprain your wrist(s).

The cut off extension cord method just requires you plug the cord into a 120 volt outlet on the generator. Generator should be running, but sometimes this works without starting it first. Touch a 9 volt dc battery to the stripped wires of the extension cord, polarity doesn't matter.

Either method will work. Good luck, and be strong if you use the drill method.