[SEL] Good little show today... Emerald Winterfest (Victoria, Australia)

[Paul Pavlinovich]

Got home from the Emerald Winterfest half an hour ago, a fantastic turn 
out this year (including SEL member Mick Christie!). Usually this show 
is tiny with 4 to 6 engines, but today we had over 20, that combined 
with a really good day of weather and a huge crowd (most of town turned 
up). Hopefully the show has finally reached critical mass and we'll be 
able to expand a little every year.

I was a lazy bugger (way too much non engine stuff to do at work & home) 
and only took the little Maytag I finished the other week. At first it 
was a dud and would not go, but after I played with the magneto (didn't 
do anything, literally just wiggled things) off it went. It ran non-stop 
until it ran out of fuel towards the end of the day where I left it 
alone to cool off before loading the difficult load to make the trip 
home. I had the muffler held on with a tent peg (mainly to annoy our 
club secretary who has come to expect something wierd on my engines!)

The only bad bit is I've picked up a flu... getting into the fever part 
of it right now :(

I have to write something up for the club newsletter (got cornered) but 
then I'm off to bed to try sleep this crap off.

I'll try to get pictures up soon. There was a bit of a MacDonald 
overload - the good thing about Macs is that most of them smoke so much 
no-one noticed the Maytag signature cloud.

Paul

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pjp at steamengine.com.au
Emerald, Victoria, Australia
www.steamengine.com.au


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