[SEL] It works? Ban it!

[Peter Lowe]

Hi Arnie
I got some pics somewhere from Portland 1999

Pete, Oz





> G'day Jack,
>
> I KNOW the guy that took that special engine.  Name's Rick Monk, BIG guy,
> full beard, definitely looks like a terrorist.  His accomplice (good
> lookin' gal) goes by the nickname "Bubbles."  He even ran that engine at
> Portland and Coolspring a few years.  He had it belted to a conventional
> hit & miss engine and was _claiming_ that it was a "bubble machine."  But
> close examination of the display showed that the so-called hit & miss was
> just a shell, no fuel, no exhaust, all the power was coming from the
> Bubble Engine.
>
> Rick & Bubbles appear to have disappeared (he used to post to the SEL a
> lot) and hasn't been seen at any shows in years.  The mysterious Bubble
> Engine hasn't been seen either.
>
> At one time there were a lot of pics on the web of Rick, Bubbles, and the
> Bubble Engine.  I wonder if any are stil out there or if the Big Oil folks
> got 'em all removed.  Anyone?  Links to the pics?
>
> See ya,  Arnie
>
> Arnie Fero
> Pittsburgh, PA
> fero_ah at city-net.com
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jack Watson wrote:
>
>> ===
>> Steve, that sounds suspiciously like what happened to "Frothy", the soap
>> bubble powered engine I invented. Ran on the spin-cycle principle. Same
>> looking guy, did yours have a black hat?
>>
>> Engine ran clean as a whistle, but it needed some special soap to
>> produce bubbles of the correct surface tension for best efficiency. I
>> was working on that and had arranged for John Culp to supply, but
>> suddenly and inexplicably he was unable to obtain his usual ingredients.
>
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