[SEL] Re: The Austral Has Landed!

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Dave,
    Looks like Rob pulled the old "switcheroo" on you.  He actually had 
2 Australs, one in excellent mechanical condition, the other with a JB 
Weld sleeve job.  You saw the good one run, then when you went to get 
the trailer to load up, the slight of hand took place.  I'm buying the 
good one for $2500 as Rob said he got so much out of yours that he could 
give a good discount on the other.  What type bridge did he sell you why 
you were there?..... (keep tinkering with it, I'm sure you'll get it at 
your favorite RPM).

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



>
>> 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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