[SEL] Re: The Austral Has Landed!

[Mick Christie]

G'day Dave
Also about running australs that slow(70 to 80 rpm) it puts a lot of stress 
on the crank as they are not a one piece crank but are made up of 5 parts 
and are pressed together and i have seen quite a few damaged austral cranks 
over the years an 2 were a result of running very slow and they ended up 
cracking the crank webs and then the crank pins came loose. Just thought i 
would let you know as it would be a shame to damage it and it would be 
incredably hard to find another crank for that engine.
   Cheers
         Mick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edd Payne" <edsengns at optusnet.com.au>
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Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Re: The Austral Has Landed!


> 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>
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> 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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