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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
HANFORD MILLS MUSEUMBy Diane GalushaThe two men bent to their task with a determination that matched that of the cantankerous old engine they were trying to start. While Larry MacClintock opened the choke and depressed the valve on the antique Witte gasoline engine, burly Jim Whitaker grasped one side of the flywheel and yanked it into motion, pulling hard, around and around. Coughing, sputtering, belching puffs of exhaust, the engine almost started, but then backfired, and the men began their efforts anew. This happened time and again. "Can't understand why she doesn't want to start," Whitaker said, beads of sweat standing out on his forehead. "Is it just this particular one that's so stubborn, or is the whole species like this?" he asked MacClintock, who is old enough to remember when engines such as the old Witte were used to do almost every farm chore imaginable. ... 820 of 5817 characters shown.
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