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Hit-And-Miss Engine? I'll call it W-T-F engine

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago

Well, so far it works, whatever it is.

Wiki: A hit-and-miss engine is a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine that was conceived in the late 19th century and was produced by various companies from the 1890s through approximately the 1930s. The name comes from the method of speed control that is implemented on these engines (as opposed to the "throttle governed" method of speed control). The sound made when the engine is running is a distinctive "POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh POP" as the engine fires and then coasts until the speed decreases and needs to fire again to maintain its average speed.

11 Comments

Very Steampunk. Very cool.

sounds like the flubber car!

Them hydrocarbins is cumbustin' Where'd I leave my teeth.

That green motor could put me to sleep with its Idle.

pop pop pop pfff pop pop pfft pop pop

Very smooth ride...

All the valets hated when Willy Wonka came a-callin'.

Porksandwich says...

Wonder how many fingers, hands and arms that thing has eaten in it's lifetime....also looks like a pain in the ass to get it running properly.

Hate to see the carnage that would cause if it became an external combustion engine.

fascinating!

I've been toying with old photography methods as a hobby... neat to see this level of ol' time technology enthusiast on the 'tubes

My friend has one of these, it drives a 10+ kilowatt generator. It weighs... a lot.

I was reminded of the old make-and-break engine: http://youtu.be/UxGw4d2NFMo

Which I only know of because of the late Stan Rogers' "Make and Break Harbour:" http://youtu.be/6E2DFa18kYI

edit: Now a Sift! http://videosift.com/video/Stan-Rogers-Make-and-Break-Harbour

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