[SEL] Mystery engine

[Jeff Allen]

Hi all,

Went to one of my clubs shows today. It is part of a city festival. Our 
club is part of it with the engine dispay, tractors, and sawmill. Not 
the best turnout of engines, but a few nice sideshafts running. The 
sawmill was awesome this year with six machines working. Four belted to 
tractors, and two to 8 HP Witte engines. I gave thought to taking the 
Maytag, but decided not to. My good buddy and family attended and I 
wanted to spend the day with them. He told his daughters, late teens, 
about it and they were excited. They remember the shows in Mindon, 
Nebraska much like this and always loved them. That Mindon show is where 
I fell in love with hit and miss engines many years ago. We had a great 
day visiting and enjoying the show. Great eats and a lovely 85 degree day.

I attend to club business much faster than personal site stuff, so 
pictures should be up soon. For now I'll leave you with a mytery engine 
to look at. It has a bevel gear under the plastic cover in the photos 
that probably drove a shaft for a washer. Might have been a prototype, 
or perhaps military. It also rotates opposite of most engines of this 
type including Maytags.

http://frapa.us/Mystery/Mystery.html

Back to work.

Jeff Allen