On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:43:08 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:46:17 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On 06 Dec 2015 16:01:54 -0400, Mike Spencer
wrote:


Ed Huntress writes:

A Steampunk washing machine! But you need a "Casey Jones Engineer"
certificate to run it. d8-)

There were wringer washers that ran on small gasoline engines. In the
70s, an old guy near me said he remembered (gesturing toward the road
he lived on) when they came up along there installing power poles,
hooking up houses, in the 1930s. Right behind them came a salesman
selling electric wringer washers.

Yeah, we had the gasoline-engined washers here, too. I remember seeing
some as a kid, in south New Jersey.
I've got the engine..

See: http://snyder.on.ca/pages/Old%20Engi...501_engine.htm

Very cool. Johnson Outboards made a motor for washing machines in the
1930s. And, if you have a copy of the 1952 edition of _The Boy
Mechanic_ (I do), they have a plan for a flat-bottomed "sea sled" boat
powered by one. It used a piece of rubber garden hose for a coupler to
the prop shaft.

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Ed Huntress