On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:19:32 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:14:22 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 21:03:18 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:26:08 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:29:20 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:43:08 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:46:17 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On 06 Dec 2015 16:01:54 -0400, Mike Spencer
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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.

OMC was Johnson. (also Evinrude) and this engine was sold under all 3
names at one point.
I've seen the plans. Saw one built with a twin cyl 2 stroke Maytag
years ago. There wereplans to build a midget car and a scooter using
the iron horse too - as well as plans for and a commercially built
Maytag Midget.

The "horse" was also used on quite a few early lawn mowers and some
generators and garden tractors.

They also built 2 stroke iron horse engines (used on early Lawn Boy
and Jacobsen mowers)

There's a lot of charm in those old engines. I have only one of them
left -- an O&R from the '60s (I think -- maybe the '50s).

It's interesting that we never feel that from electric motors. g The
motor that powers my bench disk sander is a 1-hp GE Century from
before WWII. It's as big as a microwave oven, and all of the inertia
makes for a great disk sander. But it has as much charm as a sump
pump.
That - sump pump with the vertical shaft and column removed - is what
powers my Dunlap jigsaw.
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Gerry :-)}
London,Canada

Mine is from our first dishwasher. g You're the only other person I
know who has a Dunlop jigsaw. I still have to make a blade guide for
it. The old one plumb wore out, and I haven't used it for at least ten
years.
I made a blade guide/hold down foot from a die cast, floor mount door
stop.
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Gerry :-)}
London,Canada