(old video) Cold Start! 6Hp Sandow Hit and Miss Engine #2 

Very good video and sound ! Byg like Man 👍 Nice engine !

Back in 56 there was an old man at the end of my road who wasn't on the grid, was still using kerosene lamps when I first met him and a dry cell battery powered radio in the living room. Outside in a shed was an old hit or miss engine hooked up to an open frame D.C. Generator. I asked why he didn't use it and his reply was my pappy would keep my bottom warm if I touched it so I don't touch it. I asked where his dad was and he looked a long time and finally said he passed away four years ago. So the responsibility for the engine falls to you then. After near ten minutes he asked ever run a hit or miss engine? Nope. Come on I'll teach ya how to care and run her. Took us near 4 hours until he looked at it for the thousandth time and and quietly said " you dummy" . I thought he was talking to me until he said no, that was me talking to myself. The magneto had a lever that flipped up and I was told it was a long ago repair his dad did to get her going again and when he pointed it out we had been trying to start her without the magneto firing once! He dropped the lever into position and several turns of the flywheel and off she went with a loud bang and a lot of smoke. It settled down after a bit then he threw the flat belt over the pulley for the generator and up came the light bulb in the shed! There were 2 old 6 volt car batteries off to one side and he said they charged up and ran the lights at night, i from hanging around a local Gulf station knew how to remove the caps to check the acid level and they were low so I added water from the well to bring them up to the ring in each cell and after he turned on the generator the old meters read 8 volts and showed a charging rate of 12 amps. The engine settled down to a nice bang, bang, bang on every other revolution and then his wife showed up at the door and said " the lights on in the kitchen! ". An hour later over a slice of chocolate cake and a glass of milk his wife said they hadn't had electricity since his dad died as he refused to touch it then asked what did you say to get him to start it? When I told her she laughed and said if I knew it was that easy I'd have said it 4 years ago. I'd visit every day in the summer to oil and grease her up before he started her. He lost his wife in 58 and he finally passed in 86. Every time I visited from that first day I learned something about farming animal husbandry how to store ice so it lasted till the following winter. Everybody in town ignored him saying he was just an old crackpot because they stuck to the old ways and when electricity was run down their road in 47 they refused the offer to hook up when they found out how much money it would be a month. They were quoted $3.00 a month and his dad refused saying that will buy a lot of kerosene to run my generator for 5 months. Kerosene was in 56 7 cents a gallon and was delivered by a tanker truck to the 2 55 gallon barrels they stored it in. The hit or miss engine used roughly one gallon of fuel every 2 days. He only ran the engine 4 hours a day to charge the batteries. What surprised me was the date on the batteries, AC Delco October 1938. He finally bought a new set of batteries in the summer of 57. I haven't thought of that old couple in years, funny how an old hit or miss engine brings back the memories. Cheers!

Hit and miss engines have to be the best sounding engines ever, they all have their unique song that they play and this ones a beauty!

When I was in my early 20s I lived in a tiny dying town called Roxbury KS. There were oil wells all around the town. And at night we could hear the hit and miss engines on the pumpjacks. I would drive out and watch them for hours. I love it. And GOD bless you brother!

I would put that engine in my bedroom and sleep like a baby to that sound.

Okay indeed! no commentary needed, the engine took care of that. Great video, engine oozes it history, and the operator sure knows how to coax her along. Fantastic....

I love all the comments from folks who know nothing about these engines telling you what you do 😎

I need to dig mine out and get her going. Such a soothing experience to be around old critters

Love it....best part is the barn cats wandering around completely unbothered by the noise or activity!

The health and safety people would have a field day with this nowadays..... What a fantastic old engine, full of character.....

wow, that calls old is gold. thanks for your video

What a neat old engine. Thanks for sharing.

Learned a fair amount in watching you set it up.

ahhh . that's beautiful as is . i could fall asleep listening to a hit n miss run because it's music to my ears .

Outstanding job keeping this old engine running!

In cold weather we always heated some water and poured it in the hopper, seems to warm the cylinder up making starting easier, well at least it worked for me. Love your engine, your very fortunate to own a beauty like that! Thanks for sharing!

nice to see a woman that knows how to run an old hit or miss

Great video!!!!! You show a lot of knowledge about the old engine for such a young man . Hope we have more young men that understand mechanical things as you do. Thanks for the video.

Fantastic video like to see people trying to keep these hit and miss engines alive

Am I crazy? I want to own one of these things just for the purpose of firing it up in the morning and listening to it while I enjoy my coffee. I can't explain it to y'all just the puttering of an old babbit-pounder is music to my ears.

Another spring on that flyweight would help it run better at idle.

Nice perseverance. Maybe next time fill the grease cups on the mains, then put some oil in the cylinder oiler too! You know your way around old stuff, like it wasn't delatching. Neat motor, I have a Stover hit of miss rig with a big beautiful Webster on it, all black and gold.

Young lady knows her way around the old machine. Good job

Oddly satisfying to listen to and see this engine in action. Great video!

Looks like something Roy Comstock would come up with and have the stuff on hand to make it.

Excellent video, thank you for putting it up. I appreciate the rawness of just the mechanical sounds.

That engine's rhythm is mesmerizing!

A delightful video, thank you for sharing it with us! You’ve got a new subscriber!!

Easier than getting me going in the morning. Easy to see how it got its name.

Love to find an old gas pump like the one you have sitting they are rare around here

I used to lean like that over rotating things too, until a friend of mine sent me a clip of a russian man literally getting ripped to pieces by a lathe. Awesome engine though.

Ohhh that beautiful old engine hit & miss sound great work engine that never die can go over 1,000 years or more.... Good ol' live old engine that beauty... well done keep look after the engine forever on ur next generation well look after good old engine... Good luck enjoy love old engine

Old flywheelers are so cool!

Fuel bowls have been around for over a century now and we have yet to invent a gasket that works reliably on them.

I love your hit and miss engine!

👍👍👍👍👍 enjoyed it fixing to buy my first one of these

Listen to that all day

I uesd to use one of those when I was a kid to put rice coal in a silo that belonged to Wally Korts. It started a lot easer than that I was onlly 14-15 years old and was hauling coal from Keyser ave by Scranton Pa . I was driving LJ Mack with 16 foot dump trailer. Didn't get a license till I was 16. Those were the days. God Bless America

Great job.I like watching the starting and the brains of my outfit (my wife) loves your cats!

I would love to restore that engine. Nice and shiny like new.

Really enjoy this style of engine sounds so much better than the ones now

If you're a bank robber, don't use this in your getaway car. :)

Pretty cool video! I love these old engines, subscribed. Thanks! 🍺 cheers from Maple Ridge BC

The exhaust note at 12:25 sounds like me, filing my toenails.

Finally got myself a Sandow 1 3/4 hp one.

@ 2:22 I see your "supervisor" arrived to keep an eye on you, he has the best fur coat.

Nice video!! Thanks for sharing.... A.E.V. 😊

I like the cats in the background, just doing their cat stuff. the one that gets up at 4:29 has no tail D:

I just love old hit and miss engines, but they run and sound much better with a little load on them. They are pretty uncommon here, as the hotbulb diesels was more popular here (and I love those too) I would love to have one in the yard to start up once in a while, maybe power a saw and a woodchopper just for fun.

the sound is so pleasing

I could watch one of these run all day long.

It's alive! Breathing!

Absolutely fascinating ! Wish I had one of these. That tiddly-donk-tick-tick is very hypnotic. Enyoyable, relaxing video, thanks.

Came for the hit and miss and stayed for the cat.

My ex girlfriends dad owns a woodmill and he challenged me to start the old hit and miss oh boy it was one hell of a serious challenge then he told me it had not been started for over 5 years since upgrading to diesel with a electric starter. It only powered a water pump for log transport it blew my mind

Love those auld engines!

Osha approved arm ripper offer. If the governor wasn't having an issue it would have kept going on the first pull.

Well done you persevere brill sound thank you.

Their sound is amazing. 😍😍

Lovely engine and a very interesting video - thanks! There appears to be a spring missing between the two governor weights. I can see a pair of unused eyes for one. With just one spring it's unlatching the push rod at too low a speed - there's no way it would run with any load.

More of a ' Hit and Miss and miss and miss and miss and miss and miss and miss and miss engine!'

wow without music, sounds like ASMR.

Nice video and do not worry you do know what you are doing.

Really nice engine

Enjoyed the video. I have a few 1.5HP Hit and Miss Engines but only one 6hp, it's a John Deere early 20's

It seems those old one lungers will run on just about anything, except modern fuel with ethanol. When I was a kid I worked for a used farm equipment guy. We'd get one of those engines every 2-3 months. They were a lot of fun to see if they would run. I wish I had kept some of them.

Very good video!!!!! Nice engine!!!!!

Seems like it would be fairly easy to get that gasoline tank cleaned and lined.

So I'm guessing the governor was stuck or that spring wasn't attached? Or maybe the springs are weak? (Or maybe there's only one spring when there should be two?)

ASMR Ow man if i only had the space, i would be a collector for sure. :))

Nice engine!

NICE OLD ENGINE, NOW MAKE IT RUN

What a beauty. Probably never been apart- which does show in it's behaviour! 5 year gty expired unfortunately...

I liked the cats,

Couple of tweaks and a new spring and away she goes

Cold weather, cold iron = cold hands

Better than any music on the radio

A quarry down on the river would pump overnight . Can't imagine anything else it would do . Guess a light load is all it needs now . T/C/E

I just subscribed to your channel and hello from New Hampshire.

That gas leak my just be do to a cold stiff o ring.

Nice cats you have

What is this old engine used for?

A lot of work but well worth it...

Больше всего мне понравились ваши 🐈!!!

9:14 Bye! lol That made my day. Would a tighter spring hslp it idle a little better?

this old machine needs to be in a building where it can be saved other wise it will be scrap iron

Your supposed to do all the tinkering before hand"

Se necesita que funcione a una velocidad más uniforme, porque si varía tanto de velocidad máxima inmediatamente después de la explosión, a casi velocidad nula en la siguiente explosión, no sirve entonces para mover maquinaria

Grand invent de força gera energia forte tem muita força d uma Union pacific e fundamental.

wow!!!!

Is that it? I saear its supposed to go faster, by the end of the video it had such a weak going. Are you sure thats its normal rate and are you sure thats its normal rate of combustion?

They big end bearing looks DRY. That beautiful old engine needs some love, & restoring.. properly.

l got cold just watching this...!

Hate to get in a fight with the “hit N Miss” girl

Black cat @ 5:05 has no tail! Guessing it's on life 6 - 7 by now?

15:42 I don't feel like running anymore...... ok I lied.

Nice Little funny engine need to be painted

Hit and miss? I guess they never miss huh?

Are the cups above the pillow block blocks contain oil ? Are they dry and not smooth ?

Ya need a heftier governer spring so you dont gotta help it through the compression stroke.