Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)
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I have a hit and miss pending restoration... if I had a saw like that... It would be 'under restoration!!!'
Damn America was such an awesome place before OSHA and liberals came along and fucked it up. Back then, you either knew your stuff or you died. Or became 'stumpy' and then died of sepsis.
It was better for everyone back then!
Sirhr
How about one of the old lathes or mills that they had in the factories in the 1800s? One of the ones they powered with the belt coming down from the ceiling. Think it could power on of those?
OK razor peeps, I found something special. An early 1900s Golf brand bakelite slant razor in unused condition. I scored it from eBay Germany and it is enroute. This was made in Solingen Germany and is the razor head design the Fine brand slant razors were patterned after.
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It's all about flywheel size and... yes. Sawmills to butter churns to big threshers... hit and miss motors kept big flywheels spinning and could do damn near anything!
It's a whole collecting genre until itself. So many cool engines out there. And restored ones are cheap, because noone is collecting them any more. They're all dying off.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Yours specifically or just in general? It would be pretty neat to have one powering one of those old metalworking machines and use it to build a rifle or make gun parts.
I'd like to have on powering a small saw mill but I don't have much use for making lumber... yet.
One of my favorite uses is to power a washing machine. Yes, they did that too.
Indeed they did! Maytag Step Start motors are one of the most commonly restored small engines.
Cheers,
Sirhr
The guy that owns the Harley shop in Stillwater, OK had (probably still has) a giant ice cream churn powered by an old restored hit and miss. It was pretty cool to make ice cream on that thing. Sounded neater’n hell running.
I just saw a small one for sale online, the one with the foot pedal, usually used for small appliances like a washing machine. Guy wants $650. I remember seeing them at flea markets for $100. Seems like 100 years ago, but probably only 15 years ago.....
This hangs on a wall in my house. Mike's daughter was in my daughter's class and he sold a limited number of these.
