Interesting background to this particular engine:

This 1909 10HP Blackstone oil engine was used for pumping water from a river to a market garden. The engine was sabotaged in the 1920s by someone blowing up the cylinder with explosives. A new cylinder was installed and the engine was returned to service for a number of years when it eventually fell into disuse. A number of river flooding's submerged the engine and it was eventually partially buried in silt. It was recovered in the 1990s and in 1997 it was dismantled, cleaned and started again after many years of neglect. The starting procedure requires heating of the hot bulb with a blow lamp in order to vaporize the fuel ( kerosene ) and to preheat the internal combustion chamber to allow fuel ignition.

They don't build them like that anymore. Gotta love the external cam! This is almost as interesting to start as some engine are that require a shotgut shell to kick over the engine.

Mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing.

Aww...It fell asleep at the end.
Old thing was tired and took a nap.

Made me dizzy with the camera. I wish he had stepped back a little bit so I could see more at once.

Brad

quote Originally posted by Fats: Made me dizzy with the camera. I wish he had stepped back a little bit so I could see more at once. Brad

Yeah, I could stare at moving parts all day.