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Finally got off my butt and reassembled the engine again. Took a little fiddling around with the adjustments to get it running the way I wanted but its ok now. After it breaks in Ill reduce the speed a little, hopefully. I'm moving from the island of Grenada in a couple of weeks so I'll polish...

So I finally got around to making a wooden base for my Olds Hit Miss. Im not exactly what kind of wood it is but i\Im guessing some kind of mahogany. Now I need to apply some kind of finish to it to seal it. What do you guys use to protect your wooden bases? It has to look good but it also...

So how do you guys go about painting inside the hopper and around the water jacket in a hit or miss engine so it doesn't rust in there? If I look into the water hopper I can tell I wont be able to squeeze a paintbrush in there and I doubt spray will be able to give every nook and cranny a coat...

Just testing it prior to disassembly for painting and general smoothing out of cast parts. Still have to make a couple parts like a muffler and fuel tank. Oh, and a base too. Here it is running on camp fuel with 10% WD40. It's not broken in yet as it only has about 4 or 5 minutes run time on...

Ok so I recently started up my 1/2 Scale Olds hit miss engine (Breisch castings) for the first time using regular gasoline from the pump. I found it extremely hard to turn over to start. Most of the engines I see one youtube appear to turn and start very easily with just a "flick of the wrist"...

So I just about to finish running my 1/2 scale Breisch Olds Hit Miss engine for the first time and need some advice. Now that I know that everything is mechanically working, I want to take it apart and paint the parts that need to be painted, as well as polish the parts that need to be...