At the local art festival last weekend there was a vendor selling homemade icecream. I've had this dream of someday (in 8 or 10 years) when I retire I'd like to set up some sort of an old time turning demonstration and spend a few months in the summers hitting fairs, festivals, etc and demonstrating some woodturning. Well, this homemade ice cream churn was powered by one of those old John Deere "hit and miss" one cylinder farm motors, the kind that only fire about every 3 or 4 revolutions. Do you think one of those wood drive an old lathe? I'm thinking that if I started now I'd have the motor found, rebuilt, and running along with an old lathe for it to turn by the time I retire. Maybe some of you have already seen this done. If any of you know anything about this I'd like to hear about it.