[SEL] Re: A pair of Economy Engines

peter ogborne jopeter at omninet.net.au
Mon Nov 15 04:45:06 PST 2004


Precisely Andrew.....and i am sure you will get whatever help ,advice etc
that you request for your Petter restoration. For a start i have in my vast
collection an old Petter book as would many others........any help if
possible is there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ANDREW HUNTER-ROWE" <hunterrowe at btinternet.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Re: A pair of Economy Engines


> I agree.
>
> I joined the forum because I am restoring a couple old old Petter Diesel
engines so though it would be interesting and because of the mutual support
and encouragement I would expect such a forum to provide.
>
> I don't think it is particualry helpful to anyone to be critical of what
after all is a personal choice.
>
> I hope you enjoy your engines as much as i hope to enjoy mine when they
are completed.
>
> Graham Harris <ozengine at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Dave
>
> Tell the critics of your colour scheme to stick it up
> their arse. The Rosebery open crank (OZ copy of a F&J
> model N) that I restored for my kids has pink
> flywheels. That's because one of them is a girl. For
> the boy, he got the crankcase & hopper in mid blue and
> I got to choose yellow for the moving parts. It goes
> great, they are able to start it, and looks heaps
> better than all the green ones.
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Cheers
>
> Graham in Oz
>
>
>
> >From: "Dave Ernst"
> >Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list
>
> >To: "The SEL email discussion list"
>
> >Subject: [SEL] A pair of Economy Engines
> >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:52:33 -0800
> >
> >I posted a while back about restoring a couple of
> Hercules built
> Economy
> >engines and painting them something different than
> usual, like
> yellow. One
> >person said he had stomach problems over it, so now
> there are
> two to look
> >at!
> >Still have skids and carts to build along with some
> red
> pinstriping, but I
> >think they surely will draw comments at the shows
> they will be
> attending.
>
>
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