Hit and Miss - Restoring a McCormick Deering 6 HP Type 'M' Engine - Part 1

[@hiproofproducts5472]

I’m just getting into hit and miss engines and your video was very helpful to me, thanks!

[@Radiotexas]

Glad it helped! They are getting harder and harder to find. If you live in the midwest there are a lot of shows trhough.

[@craigfoster3431]

Congrats Jay! What a great restoration! Thanks for taking us along on the journey.

[@dgeoffreyfitton2836]

Love the music and detailed explanations, what a great professor. Can't wait to see Part 2

[@frankschultz4170]

Another smash-hit! Jay is quality in everything he does! Love the stylish steel-toe work shoes!

[@Preso58]

So many piston rings! No wonder it has good compression. Nice job.

[@Radiotexas]

Outlaw Jack's explanation of that will be in Part 3. Thanks my friend!

[@andrewclark1451]

Great video, Jay--really enjoyed learning about something I never even knew existed! of course, totally loving Outlaw Jack's machine shop-- a bit of heaven, for sure....

[@thehamelsduck1600]

Very interesting. Can't wait to see it finished and running. Ok off to see video #2 now.

[@Radiotexas]

Hope you enjoy it! And Thanks!

[@RRINTHESHOP]

Nice project Jay.

[@Radiotexas]

Hey pal, long time, no hear. Thanks for comment. Part 2 in the can, will post on Friday!

[@Romans12_18]

After a couple more videos, I'll be ready to purchase an old hit miss to tear down and play with. I'm just about finished with the 1934 IH type LA

[@Radiotexas]

That's great! These things are wonderful to restore and run! Good luck!

[@TheWolfReport]

Cool video Big Jay(tm)! I will be releasing a tear down video on a Lycoming O-360 engine on Wolf Pilot later this year. Its part of my Faux Fighter Workday show with my friend @HangaRatz Bill Goebel. Grease is good for the soul!! muu huh uhhuhuu hu!!!

[@frankschultz4170]

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[@techworksinfo]

Good video bro

[@Radiotexas]

Appreciate it-- thanks. Part 2 in the can, will post on Friday!

[@curtiseggemeyer5681]

Could you share which cotton gin the engine came from , my relatives owned several gins out in west Texas. around Miles, Rowena etc. I am fascinated by these engines, fuel savers before most people even thought of it. The design so it could be repaired indefinitely is intriguing while today we live in a throw a way world. I appreciate videos like yours. Curtis P.S. used to farm cotton the roots are still there, my family was very mechanical.

[@Radiotexas]

Like I said in the video I was "told" that the fellow Mike Sullivan bought it from "told" him it came from a cotton gin in "West Texas." I grew up in the Panhandle and never saw an engine this small running a cotton gin! Maybe it was used for other purposes but certainly not the prime mover.

[@wklinger79]

That was a long time coming, and I was well rewarded with another superb video. Nice nice work Jay! Quick question, the Babbitt bearings are those poured out of lead? I'll send you a video about a 4-cylinder engine that got rebuilt that had lead bearings in it that need to be repoured. I thought it was very interesting.

[@Radiotexas]

They are poured in babbitt metal, hence the name. Alloys of lead and of tin. There are people who cast new ones.

[@DavidLeslie65]

I've been watching some of your videos lately and finding them very educational. with your inherited attention to detail I think you may enjoy a video channel called squatch253. The channel is mostly him restoring old D2 caterpillars

[@whitesapphire5865]

I rather thought the engine looked in good condition before the work began, compared to some of the sad looking engines I've seen. At least this one has fallen into safe hands, and as the rally season moves on, I'll be watching this series. Your engine was built three years before my dad was born! We lost him just over fifteen years ago. Such a pity we can't restore people in a similar fashion. Do you have plans for the engine once it's restored? A piece of machinery to partner it up to?

[@frankschultz4170]

If anyone is interested, I'm immediately available for restoration.

[@michaelheninger1357]

i wish i had a sweat wife to help turn thing over.

[@Radiotexas]

HAHA!!! Thanks!