Hit And Miss Engines

ambrola · #1 12-03-2016, 11:48 AM

Do any of you guys play with Hit and Miss engines? I have always wanted one, but don't know enough about them to make a good purchase. I would like to have one to pull behind my Original and make popcorn?

RLause · #2 12-03-2016, 01:04 PM

Here is a couple of pictures of mine that I like really well.

Mike McKown · #3 12-03-2016, 03:48 PM

I had one of these when I was a kid but that was 60 years ago.

Jeff in Pa · #4 12-03-2016, 08:28 PM

I have two ( so far

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1913 Associated 1-1/2 hp Busy Boy. Air cooled, hit and miss governor and make and break ignition.

I just picked up a 1905 Olds Gasoline Engine Works 5-7 hp

DieselDoctor · #5 12-03-2016, 08:58 PM

I played with them many years ago, and found them to be very enjoyable. Unless you plan to permanently mount them on a trailer, smaller and lighter are much easier to move and have fun with. 1hp - 3hp are about the limits that two grown men can move.

john hall · #6 12-03-2016, 09:53 PM

They are fun. Neat to watch all the "internal" stuff that you never get to see on conventional engines. I've got a 1905 2hp IHC vertical, 1914 4hp IHC Famous screen cooled (throttle and governor), 20's 1.5 hp Deere that crapped the timing gears 20 years ago and I never have bothered to fix, and a dishpan flywheel Lauson (I think 1.5 hp and pretty certain its Hit and Miss--been waiting to restore for the last 10 years). If I can find any pics I'll post them.

If you want to stay with IH, search for Famous, Tom Thumb, and type M. There was a guy named Larry Trammel in Chapel Hill that horse traded in them for years, don't know if he still does. He dealt with runners only--great for folks just beginning in the hobby.

Tractors are more my thing. I got this one running and then life just kind of got in the way of the time needed to finish it. It's not much different than a 2cylinder throttle and governor flywheel engine.

ambrola · #7 12-04-2016, 09:10 AM

If any of you guys has one you want to sell, pm me here. I would like to get a small one to put on a trailer and pull behind my Cub. I don't know anything about them, but sure would like to have one. They are really cool.

john hall · #8 12-04-2016, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ambrola

If any of you guys has one you want to sell, pm me here. I would like to get a small one to put on a trailer and pull behind my Cub. I don't know anything about them, but sure would like to have one. They are really cool.

Try the guy I mentioned in Chapel Hill, he used to run an ad in the N.C. Agricultural Review. On the web he used to go by The Engine Merchant, or something like that.