{"id":2974,"date":"2012-09-20T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2012-09-20T17:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:37:48","slug":"hit-and-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Hit and Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: Schaffer’s Chapel – 5 miles]<\/p>\n

Another thing we saw at the Iowa State Fair:\u00a0 antique engines.<\/p>\n

Back in the old days\u00a0 (before my time) they used single cylinder kerosene\/gas engines to run things like irrigation wells.\u00a0\u00a0 They had gas engines to run clothes washers and other household appliances.\u00a0 I guess this would particularly have been good before rural electrification put electricity on farms.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00a0 They had a display of “hit and miss” gas engines at the fair.\u00a0 If you ever see one run you will know why they call them that.\u00a0 There’s a big flywheel, about the size of a hubcap or bigger.\u00a0 There is a mechanism for holding the valves open until the RPM gets below a certain point.\u00a0 So the thing goes ‘pop’\u00a0 round round round round ‘pop’ round round round, etc.<\/p>\n

They are cool.\u00a0 Cool like old cars and steam locomotives and radios with tubes inside.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I get the hankering to have one.\u00a0 But then…. I remember that one of the reasons they moved away from such stuff was that it was more expensive.\u00a0 And another was that it was more dangerous.\u00a0 And I remember that I really don’t like working on cars that much\u00a0 (I have a pickup truck old enough to have “antique” license plates.)\u00a0 <sigh><\/p>\n

Here is one thing that I did have at the Fair:\u00a0 a deep fried, sugar sprinkled Snickers bar\u00a0 (on a stick!)<\/p>\n

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[Today’s run: Schaffer’s Chapel – 5 miles] Another thing we saw at the Iowa State Fair:\u00a0 antique engines. Back in the old days\u00a0 (before my time) they used single cylinder kerosene\/gas engines to run things like irrigation wells.\u00a0\u00a0 They had gas engines to run clothes washers and other household appliances.\u00a0 I guess this would particularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}