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sixfootdan Samba Smartass
Joined: February 13, 2002 Posts: 4848 Location: \Lo*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act or process of locating.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:00 am Post subject: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Went to a swap meet yesterday and bought a 1 1/2 hp hit and miss. Needs a few parts fabricated but is 90% there and has good compression. It says Polson Implement Co. Seattle Wa. From what I understand it's a pre sparkplug model which would put it around 1900-1915.
_________________ Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar and it didn't.
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mark tucker Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2009 Posts: 23937 Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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tune it up.it might stop missing |
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Gary Person of Interest
Joined: November 01, 2002 Posts: 17069 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Small time engines are a cool hobby. We always attended the Rock River Thresheree in Janesville, Wi. during my youth. The last time I went was around 2004 or so and I want to return. It's neat to see engines harnessed to either era accessories or something someone built as the engines range from 1.5hp to absolute monsters.
What are you plans? Freshen it up and take it to shows? Have you been warned that stuff like that is addictive? _________________ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) |
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williamM Samba Member
Joined: August 07, 2008 Posts: 4333 Location: southwest Arizona
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Is the Rusch, Or. show still playing- it had some monsters. _________________ some days I get up and just sit and think. Some days I just sit.
opinion untempered by fact is ignorance.
Don't step in any! |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12818 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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It's fun to watch those & see the mechanisms that actuate to fire the cylinder when it drops below a certain RPM, I watched one for 10-15 minutes as it was churning ice cream at the Denton farm park during last years antique motorcycle show. This years it coming up next month.
http://www.amcasouthernnationalmeet.com
The farm park that hosts it has a threshers convention & a lot of equipment stays on site.
A threshers reunion is scheduled for July.
http://dentonfarmpark.com/event/2015-southeast-old-threshers-reunion/ _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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sixfootdan Samba Smartass
Joined: February 13, 2002 Posts: 4848 Location: \Lo*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act or process of locating.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:47 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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I need to research and look at pics. I'll fabricate some parts and get it working. I go to an antique machinery every year so I can arm myself with knowledge there too. I've wanted one for the last decade so I'm pretty stoked now. _________________ Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar and it didn't.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12818 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Is it going to be a "toy" or do you have a purpose for it? _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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sixfootdan Samba Smartass
Joined: February 13, 2002 Posts: 4848 Location: \Lo*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act or process of locating.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Is it going to be a "toy" or do you have a purpose for it? |
Just a toy _________________ Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar and it didn't.
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jwp67 Samba Member
Joined: February 12, 2012 Posts: 652
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Lucky! I have wanted one for ages. I have had old B&S engines, but THAT IS COOL! Nice score! Please keep us posted on the rebuild. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12818 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 6:59 pm Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Cool, (although powering an ice cream churn is a worthwhile cause (especially considering how much the ice cream was.)). _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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sixfootdan Samba Smartass
Joined: February 13, 2002 Posts: 4848 Location: \Lo*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act or process of locating.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:05 am Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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jwp67 wrote: |
Lucky! I have wanted one for ages. I have had old B&S engines, but THAT IS COOL! Nice score! Please keep us posted on the rebuild. |
It won't be a fast build but I will post the progress and pics. _________________ Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar and it didn't.
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jwold Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 2088 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Got my first hit and miss engine. |
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Those are cool. We have this place near us between Salem and Portland, they have a huge variety of working engines. |
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