[SEL] Re: The Austral Has Landed!

[Edd Payne]

Dave an Austral wasn't designed to run that slow.120 to 150 is as slow as 
they will go and run reliably without the lamp.They will go slower with the 
lamp on but then it is not running as it should.ie as a lamp start 
engine.Once going and all is hot they will go all day without the lamp.My 
one does and so does everyone else's  Austral that I know of.
EDD PAYNE
PO Box 364 Gulgong N.S.W
Australia
2852
Phone:0263742387
edsengns at optusnet.com.au
edsengns
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Rotigel" <rotigel at alltel.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Re: The Austral Has Landed!


>
>>Congrats Dave,
>>         Great looking engine - my little Ronnie N would fit quite nicely 
>> inside the water tank :-)
>>         I wish you much pleasure from it.
>>         Good that you got back safely - now Arnie does not need to hold 
>> that auction !!
>>Keep the revs up (or down)
>>Jerry Evans
>
> Hi Jerry,
>         A question for you (and others who may be familiar with the revs 
> on an 11 HP Austral.) My son (Todd) and I ran the engine for about a half 
> an hour today. We couldn't get the revs under 100. If we did for one or 
> two hits the engine would then stop. When I picked the engine up in KA a 
> week ago Rob and Kelley had it running about 70 RPM's. Granted it was 80 
> degrees and sunny in KA and 55 degrees and damp here. However, there was 
> no water in the engine (or at least I think there was no water in it--none 
> drained from the pipe at the bottom of the water tank) and I would have 
> thought a half hours running would have warmed it up sufficiently to get 
> the speed down under 100 revs. I had the burner I'm using in place of the 
> lamp on both here and in KA the whole time while running the engine. 
> Perhaps it was not on high enough here. I'll try more heat tomorrow when 
> Arnie is here and see if that helps. I'd like to get it running at 69 revs 
> so that I can really call it MY engine!
>         Dave
>
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