Travel through this site to explore the world of Antique Gas and Steam Engine Collectors, learn about abrasive blasting, repairing magnetos, buy engines and parts, or join us in the Smokstak Antique Engine Forum. Engine shows are represented from the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest and Midwest. Audio recordings are available for some of my hit and miss engines and from the shows in Idaho and Washington. There are hundreds of engine photos, and many links.
These are the shows that we visited, generating even more interest for us in antique engine collecting, starting with the Canandaigua engine show. The hardware and the people involved were obviously of our liking.
Engine Restoration:
Abrasives: Collecting rusty iron created a need for a method of rust removal and preparing items for fresh paint. This is my story about selecting abrasive blasting equipment for engine restoration.
Belts and Pulleys: The transmission of motion and power between shafts that are some distance apart may be effected by belts, ropes, or chains running over suitable pulleys. (two pages)
Classified Ads: The FIRST and OLDEST and LARGEST classified ad board on the internet dedicated to antique engines! Over 100,000 ads have been posted on the main engine board!
Engine Bookstore: Here's a selection of new books on all types of steam and gas engines, antique tractors and traction engines, old tractors, marine engines, railroading, and books on shop equipment.
Engine Troubles: Everything you've wanted to know about running and repairing old engines and then some, as written in the textbook of their time, 1907.
Gas Engine Articles: These are the articles that we published in Gas Engine Magazine from the Smokstak Bulletin Boards. This is a good place for beginners to read some of our hints and kinks of gas engine collecting.
Ignitions: It seems like most every old engine has a magneto or a buzz coil and more than likely there's a problem with it. Since electronics was my life long work, I wrote up these pages of information about the subject.
Old Engine Engravings: Here are several electronically processed engravings of stationary engines in use in the 1890's.
Power Gas Producers: The principles of gas engines and gas producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
Recent engines, tractors, machinery, parts, tools and antiques on Enginads:
For Sale: MINNEAPOLIS 17-30 B TRACTOR by Gary Biewer
For Sale: 3hp. Fairbanks. reduced by Devin Cline
Auction: IHC LA LB Starting Handle by Bryan Storey
Auction: IHC LB 3 to 5hp Aluminum ID Tag by Bryan Storey
Antique Engine Forums:
SmokStak: A conversational bulletin board about antique engines and the machinery that was used with them. Over 190,000 posts on 32,000 threads for 8,300 users are available on this web site! See below for current topics.
SprkArcs: A conversational bulletin board about antique electrical power generators, gensets and old electric motors.
Railroading: Selected books and magazines on locomotives, steam and Diesel railroads, model railroading and old toy trains from American Flyer and Lionel.
Suppliers: Parts, materials and services related to Internal Combustion Gasoline Engines and Steam Engines. When you order, tell them where you saw their ad!
Web Server: Harry's Old Engine and EnginAds has grown to the point that a dedicated web server was required to handle the traffic flow. Oldengine.net was created to serve this need.
About Harry: The fellow who put this entire mess together.
Site Search: Look for information about your favorite engine model or manufacturer, or key words about a particular engine subject.
On Line Shopping: If you're gonna buy on line, go here to click for your stuff.
Other Links: A trailer load of links to collecting, restoring and showing antique stationary gasoline and steam engines and a whole barn full of other stuff too.
There's a WHOLE LOT more to this site so click and cruise around!
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