Talk:Hit-and-miss engine

message: when searching for 'hit and miss' no articles are returned... i found this article by searching again for stationary engine... i think no results are returned due to the underscore in the title of the article - werd678 08-Mar-07
:Sometimes the WP search engine just doesn't work.  I have had no end of problems this evening.  Eventually I did get it to work, and when I entered 'hit and miss', this page was the first hit. There is no underscore in the title – although they do replace space characters in page URLs. -- EdJogg 23:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Search problem?

message: This article is in need of some serious tidying, as highlighted by the plethora of boxes at the top of the page, however I cannot see why it should be regarded as 'non-notable'.
The web page already included (http://www.boydhouse.com/hitandmiss/gov/index.html) is an excellent description of these once-common engines.  The relative lack of Google hits ('only' ~800) is probably because the people most interested in these engines are less interested in the Internet! (This does not in itself make the subject non-notable.)
It would be useful to know why the article has been PRODed as 'non-notable', so that the particular concerns may be properly addressed.
EdJogg 10:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - the reason given is too brief to make much sense of, and the article seems to establish prima facie notability in the first place. The only concern I would have is verifiability. Johnleemk | Talk 16:18, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why PRODded? 

message: To be grammatically correct, I think that the name should be hyphenated, however this is not necessarily the common usage. Regardless, the article usage (currently, hyphenated) and its title (non-hyphenated) should be consistent.
Opinions anyone? EdJogg (talk) 10:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hit-and-miss" or "Hit and miss"? 

message: I'm puzzled by the term "Flywheel engine".  Surely all piston engines have flywheels.  The only exception I can think of is an aircraft engine but, there, the propellor acts as a flywheel. Biscuittin (talk) 23:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The flywheel is such a critical part of these engines. They do not fire on every cycle (or even on every fourth cycle if you consider that they are still 4-cycle engines). At idle, the engine may not fire any more frequently than once every four or five revolutions. Since the engine has to coast for such an extended period it must have a substantial flywheel to keep it going.--gargoyle888 (talk) 01:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flywheel engine 

message: Locally, we call these "shot engines."  In fact, it took me a good twenty minutes to find this article because of that.  I was going to add it, but realized that I don't have a source (there needs to be a better way to deal with this sort of domain knowledge).  Can anyone find one that isn't from having called them that for years? -Trent Arms (talk) 20:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never heard of that name. Searches on Google and on YouTube turn up a lot of hits for "Hit and miss engine" whereas a search for "shot engine" turns up none (it only turns up results fot engines that are "shot" in the "broken" sense of the word). You could create a redirect from "Shot engine" to here. Since there doesn't seem to be any other use for the term, that should do what you want and not add any confusion. --gargoyle888 (talk) 15:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Name 

message: had to look elsewhere to understand the cycle.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.219.51 (talk) 07:57, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governor poorly explained.

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thread_title:  "Snort POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh snort POP"