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Hello all, I thought my current project may be of interest to some. Back in 2021 I decided I needed a new project and had always fancied building an open crank hit & miss engine. Originally I had planed to purchase some commercial casting but eventually decided to start from scratch. After some searching the Fairbanks Morse Model N was chosen as its quite a nice looking engi...

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Anyone else have this happen??

I lost ALL bookmarks and open windows... and bearly remembered password to the Stak ... never mind passwords to other stuff

I'm still trying to figure out HOW to get any book marks back

ANY ideas would be GREATLY appreciated

I'm running win10

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I don't remember where I'd stopped in the hijacked thread so I'll take a stab at it.
So... having brought the 15 JC home and unloaded it into the barn, I'm now getting deeper into it. Certainly more than I wanted to!

The carb was a rusty mess, the distributor was also rusty inside and stuck in place, control box had corroded wires and worst of all the engine will ...

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I found this on another website today ,,,,,,,, it says.... and I quote....
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Good morning; if you not yet aware, please take preventative steps in the coming da...

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Ok, everyone that has a trailer usually has a foldback jack on the tongue, and they do get bent sometimes or in the case of the 1 i changed last week,froze and broke open after years of sitting. A new 1 can be had but getting the snap ring off the old 1 and new 1 to swap them over is a pain with screwdrivers and cuss words. I had NO idea it would be such a pain to find a snap ri...

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