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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. |
Kentucky Collector Shares PhotosBy Richard (Dick) BrownRt 2, Box 336, Gilbertsville, Kentucky 42044. I've been heavy on old engines for about 10 years now and also wouldn't miss a single issue of GEM. My first engine was a 1½ HP Model M McDeering that was my granddad's. I remember playing around it as a kid and that was a few years ago. I would like to show you some photos of some of my collection of engines. The photo at below shows the big engine, a 6 HP model H 1912 Fairbanks Morse. When I purchased it from a fellow engine collector it would run!! Barely, that is. It was completely disassembled and sandblasted. The cylinder was bored and sleeved. It sports new rings by Joe Sykes, valves and guides reworked. I've done all of the main machine work myself with some help from a good friend and neighbor, Marvin Doyle. I built the varnished oak skids and batte... 784 of 1736 characters shown.
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