Smokstak: Antique Gas Engines

Smokstak hosts an assortment of antique engine forums related to collecting, restoring and showing hit and miss engines*, vintage Diesels, steam engines, antique tractors, old generators, pumps, industrial antiques and collectibles.

There are thousands of old engine photos and hundreds of discussions about all types of engines and old iron topics. It is a world wide community with members of all ages from Australia, Europe, North America and other points across the globe.

The topics covered in the forums are pretty extensive: hit and miss engines*, unidentified engines, vintage diesel engines, hot air and stirling, early site archives, magazine articles, small gasoline engines, Maytag collectibles, farm + industrial antiques, garden tractors, scale model engineering, toy steam engines, oil field engines, antique marine engines, ebay auction forum, steam and traction, subscriber's photos, show & auction calendar, links to other sites, tractor + engine auctions, chain saw collectors, Youtube old iron videos, lugs + cleats + steel wheels, vintage tractor talk, trucks, trailers and hauling, alternative fuels, magneto ignitions, smoke, gas and flames, antique auto/truck engines, photo gallery, paint shop, shop talk, blacksmithing & metals, weld shop, generators and motors, old Kohler light plants, Onan power plants, Generac gensets, and military surplus mobile electric power.

*A hit-and-miss engine is a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine that was conceived in the late 1800s and was produced by various companies from the 1890s through approximately the 1930s. The name comes from the method of speed control that is implemented on these engines (as opposed to the "throttle governed" method of speed control). The sound made when the engine is running is a distinctive "POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh POP" as the engine fires and then coasts until the speed decreases and needs to fire again to maintain its average speed.

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