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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. |
Engine With A Long StoryBy Nicholas A. FreelandP.O. Box 623, Wright, Wyoming 82732 This story is one about a 1931 1½ HP John Deere model "E" hit and miss type engine. The serial number is 324583. The story behind the engine is a long one. Most of the pieces for the engine had been collected over time by Mel Reints at Pacific Hide and Metal in Gillette, Wyoming. Mel is a friend of ours, and in 1994 Mel gave me all the parts he had for the engine. Since this is a basket-case many more parts had to be located for the engine in order to have a complete engine. In early 1995 work began with brazing up the rear corner on the magneto side. Then it was put in our Bridgeport Milling Machine to put a good edge all around the bottom of the block. Later in the year my dad had to go to Ohio to watch the undergoing construction of a Marion shovel for the Black Thunder Mine (he works there). This... 802 of 8140 characters shown.
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