[SEL] What do you think? Get rid of my engines or not?

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Side thought - and this is done with a couple fellows who have dozens if
not hundreds of engines (George Archer had over 220 engines in several
basements for a time)
These fellows are/were old and couldn't handle taking engines around - so
they had friends show their engines for them.
Sort of loaned them. Their friends cared for them, etc. as if they were
their own and it seemed to work fine.
George could only haul a couple at a time anyway and as he got older and
he got more into the BIG stationary iron, he had less time for the more
portable iron. A couple close friends of his help him show things from
time to time. Amazing how many folks would jump to show a Flour City
engine.
You might think of finding some young person who DOES have an interest and
get them going, and let them show your engines once in a while.

Bill
Runnells, Iowa
Chapman/OWE&PCo. Registry and History
http://antique-engines.com
1970 Javelin
1982 Eagle SX/4 coming soon
http://theamcpages.com

> Paul:
>
> If you're sure you no longer have an interest in them and that your
> interest won't return, you could sell most of them and keep two, one for
> each boy.
>
> Or you could hoard them.  After all, they ARE yours and you can do
> anything you want with them.  The shame would be if, after you go to that
> great junkyard in the sky, they are scrapped.
>
> Take care - Elden
> edurand at mchsi.com
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
>> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On
>>  Behalf Of Paul
>> Pavlinovich
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 02:13 AM
>> To: stationary-engine at oldengine.org; The SEL
>> email discussion list
>> Subject: [SEL] What do you think? Get rid of my
>> engines or not?
>>
>>
>> I have a bit of a dilemma - over the years I've
>> collected a number of
>> engines. Since returning to involvement with my
>> local steam railway and
>> becoming a Scout Leader I've not touched them in
>> the last three years or
>> so. I've not had time to play with them. I've not
>> had time to go to any
>> shows (although I plan on taking the troop to a
>> show this year). The
>> engines just sit in my shed deteriorating. I've
>> become the kind of
>> person I was disappointed to meet when I was
>> trying to acquire machines
>> - a hoarder who does nothing with his machinery.
>> The nearest I get is
>> these two email lists.
>>
>> My boys are 10 and 12, but neither have any
>> interest in the engines.
>>
>> Should I keep them and give them to the boys when
>> they're older or get
>> rid of most of them?
>>
>> ps. don't offer to buy them - I'll be ignoring
>> any self-interest answers :)
>>
>> Paul
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