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

[Missy Holland]

Paul, Ed has a good idea about using the engines for explaining how an
engine works to the scouts.  I have a 1945 BSA Farm Mechanics merit badge
book and on page 7 is a cross-section of a gasoline engine.  It is most
likely a 1 1/2 E John Deere as the following pictures are of a John Deere
tractor.  Devin (now 14 y/o) does like the engines and has one other scout
from his troop interested.  The boys have done their service hours at our
show grounds.

Missy Holland
Gastonia, NC


> I dont know if the merit badge system is the same down under but you can
> become a merit badge counselor for the scouts.  Auto mechanics, Farm
> mechanics and Blacksmithing(Metalwork)are some that I do and engines can
> become props for explaining them too.  All the diagrams and drawings in
> the
> book wont grab attention like a running engine. (for boys of any age)
>
> Ed Herreid
> Trevor Wisconsin
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Paul Pavlinovich <pjp at steamengine.com.au>
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> Subject: [SEL] What do you think? Get rid of my engines or not?
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:12:57 +1000
>
> 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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