[SEL] two questions about hit n miss engines
Alan
rustaholic777 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 11 16:14:14 PDT 2008
Hi Dave,
"Hitting every time" means,,,, Hitting on every compression stroke.
Only engine guys that don't know how to file points and clean them
have problems making a Maytag engine run.
OR,,, They DO know HOW to make them run,,,,
They just HATE that loud smoking single so much that they
claim they never run. 8>)))))
I took that stupid Shotgun Maytag to Buckley this year and folks
loved it. Well,,, Everyone except me.
I sure hope at least one of my three Maytag washing machines will
accept a twin engine.
I refuse to put a loud, smokey, single on a washer and take it to a show.
Alan
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, David Rotigel <rotigel at alltel.net> wrote:
> From: David Rotigel <rotigel at alltel.net>
> Subject: Re: [SEL] two questions about hit n miss engines
> To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:14 PM
> Hi Jim and Alan,
> While it's almost true that a hit and miss governed
> engine should not
> hit "every time", it's only ALMOST true.
> Several things must be
> considered.
> 1.) The great majority of hit and miss engines are 4
> cycle. Four
> cycle engines "hit" only every other time.
> 2.) Hit and miss engines that were used in various
> applications
> would "hit" every other time while under load for
> a SHORT time.
> (Consider, please, a buzz saw rig, or a lift [as when
> elevating a boat up to dry dock, or a load of bricks to
> the top of
> a structure being built.]) In such cases the engine would
> hit" every
> other time for, say, 5-10 seconds and then return to
> "hitting"
> only once in a while.
> 3.) On other (most???) applications Alan is correct--if
> the engine
> is "hitting" every other time over (most of the
> time) you should get a
> bigger engine.
> Dave
> PS, Yes, I know about 2 cycle engines! The MAYTAG single is
> the most
> common, but no one has ever seen one running, so that does
> not count!
> PPS, Ask any real engine collector "Do you own any
> MAYTAG MOTORS." If
> he/she/it responds "No" you can rest assured that
> he/she/it is a LIER
> and CAN NOT be trusted!
> PPPS, How was that last PS for being politically correct?
>
> --------
> David Rotigel
> rotigel at alltel.net
>
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Alan wrote:
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > If you load a hit n miss engine until it is hitting
> every time you
> > are working it too hard.
> >
> > Alan in Michigan
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Kangas, James G.
> <james.kangas at timken.com> wrote:
> > From: Kangas, James G. <james.kangas at timken.com>
> > Subject: Re: [SEL] two questions about hit n miss
> engines
> > To: "The SEL email discussion list"
> <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 8:00 PM
> >
> > "* In my experience hit and miss run cooler and
> the hoppers don't
> > boil dry nearly as fast as throttle-governed. "
> >
> > I didn't think of that and it would made scense if
> the engine only
> > fired once in a while. If the engine is working under
> load does it
> > still miss or do they fire constantly? Jim
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