[SEL] Safety First

[Glenn Wilson]

I am ALL FOR safety - just not safety FIRST - and in front of freedom.

If you take safety to the limit, you will have no freedom to do anything.
You would Never be able to drive over 30MPH if you even could drive,
you'd not be able to ever make a left hand turn anywhere etc.

Already, we can not by Oxycodone, or Percacet without paying a doctor
even though these are two Very Very excellent pain killers with minimal
side affects. Why? Because the "system" doesn't trust us, some of us
would misuse them so they made a law that these are to be considered
narcotics and monitored closely. In reality, if people would behave and
only take them when they got their fingers in the punch press, or took at
6 turn tumble with a flywheel etc...... we wouldn't have this extra "safety"
crap thrown on top of obtaining these drugs.

I keep a few on hand just in case but they are Tough to get for sure!

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of Richard
Fink Sr
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 5:00 PM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: RE: [SEL] Safety First



Glenn sorry to here about you illness get bet soon. Talking about safety
and old machinery. I have a 1922 [[Cleveland]] then Cleatrac. the crank
Handel is also the gear shift and you can;t get it off to use as a crank
unless it is in neutral. Now that is safety
R Fink
PA




At 10:47 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote:
>Glad you got through it with minor pains.
>
>I am not for hurting anyone or having anyone hurt themselves
>but be careful with the "safety first" comment. Our government
>would like to make it so you can not even tough your engines.
>Every law they make takes away a little more freedom. We do
>not want it all gone. And I personally would like to have the freedom
>that my ansestor had when he "killed himself by the driving wheel
>of a steam engine" as is written on his tumstone.
>
>Again, glad you made it through it with no major damage.
>
>PS - on another note - 4 days ago, I had about 8" of my large intesene,
>or colon removed due to it was infected with diverticultus. I am healing
>quickly and will soon be on a waiting list to get a kidney. Then - fairly
>normal physically again :)
>
>Glenn Wilson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
>[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of Charles R
>Bryant
>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:27 PM
>To: SEL List
>Subject: [SEL] Safety First
>
>
>Posted on the SEL by a fellow collector in August 1997
>
>"Hello List member. I had a narrow escape last Saturday morning and
>  thought I should pass it on to you all since several of you  are getting
>large engines.
>  I had been waiting for a friend to come and help start my 35 HP Superior
>which
>  we had done several times before .Earlier in the week I installed a new
>propane
>  regulator and done some maintenance. In the process I tightened two bolts
>that held the main
>bearing that supports the front of the side shaft, which in turn raised all
>the cams up
>this making the magneto fire quicker before piston got to dead center.My
>being an old
>timer I did not think of all this. We got on each flywheel and the engine
>had just a little
>too much compression to reach top dead center., so I got up higher on the
>next spoke
>with BOTH feet when it fired going in the wrong way.I discovered how it
>feels to be
>shot from a cannon.. The last thing I remember was seeing the top of the
>exhaust
>pipe. I landed about 20 feet  luckily on my right side and back. After
about
>15 minutes
>I discovered I was still alive no broken bones but not sure my kidneys were
>in the right place.
>They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks but I sure learned one.
NEVER
>PUT BOTH
>FEET ON THE SPOKES. I would be a good buyer for an air starter if anyone
has
>one"
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