UN-RESTORING an old HIT MISS ENGINE with OVEN CLEANER?!?!?!

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  @dalescribner3070 · 1 year ago

  I am 82 and traded for an old Waterloo 2 hp when I was a kid. It was frozen. Got it unstuck, cleaned it up an had a blast just watching it run. I traded it off to a friend who gave it to his dad. Before then dad died, he called me up and wanted me to have it back. I picked it up and had it my machine shop fot years. When I retired at 73 I gave it to another friend. It still runs. Fun engines. Good job.

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• SA

  @sanjayfernando4686 · 2 years ago

  I like the sound of her running slower and back to original paint

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• BE

  @bennysimpson5910 · 3 years ago

  great job good to get stared when you are young I amy 76 and have 15to 20 engins and abad back and all my friends have pased on. Lost my wife of 54 years hope to get back in the game.God bless Benny

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• MA

  @martinconnell3031 · 1 year ago

  Such a pleasure to watch someone with such talent. Thanks for the videos and all the best from Ireland.

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• JA

  @jamessmith7691 · 1 year ago

  An old timer had me put coffee grounds in cheese cloth in the water. You could smell coffee all over. When I drained it the tank was clean as a whistle.

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• ED

  @edbathgate5680 · 2 years ago

  You have really brought back some memories for me. &nbsp;My grandmothers neighbor was a well driller named Paul Boehm, in Freedom PA, who collected and restored old engines. &nbsp;About 50 yrs ago, When i was about 9 yrs old, &nbsp;I remember him and my uncle tinkering with a old oil well engine that had 6 foot flywheels. &nbsp;I have seen thise engine or one like it atnthe portersville PA steam show grounds. &nbsp;<br>It shows these machines will out live us! &nbsp;Well done!

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• DI

  @DijonFromage · 13 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZekP2fTm_YY&amp;t=1217">20:17</a> &quot;The bigger the glob, the better the job&quot;

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  @Michael48B · 3 months ago

  Its been great following your overhaul and restoration of this one-lunger. Thanks for taking the extra time and effort to share your work with us.

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  @dougwilliamson3834 · 1 year ago

  Nothing boring at all. Seeing the process is why we watch

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• WH

  @whitesapphire5865 · 3 years ago

  That&apos;s neat, I&apos;m one of those subscribers!<br><br>When we were restoring one of our vintage tractors, the cylinders were quite heavily pitted, like this engine. We hummed and haahhed over it for ages until one old fella looked down the the bores and said &quot;Them there rings and pistons will pass over them them there pits exactly like a two stroke engine passing over its inlet and outlet ports&quot;. So we reassembled it as it was. The old fella was right, and we ran that engine, trouble free for about four or five years, then out of curiosity we took the head off, and pistons out, expecting to see scratches and scoring on the pistons, but there was nothing to see. The pistons and rings were as good as the day they went in. The edges of the pitting looked sharp and well defined, but as the old man said, they were pits, not piles, and no worse than the ports in a two stroke engine.<br><br>We reassembled the engine and learned to stop worrying about it! &nbsp;That engine ran as sweet as a nut, and never burnt a drop of oil.

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• PH

  @phoneaddict3585 · 2 weeks ago

  that color matching on the head is insane! nice job 👍

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• GA

  @garymccord4277 · 3 years ago

  I want to thank you for the time you take to do these videos, I sure do enjoy watching

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