[SEL] It works? Ban it!

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Is his email still any good?

RGMTRUCK at aol.com


Bill

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> Hi Arnie
> I got some pics somewhere from Portland 1999
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> Pete, Oz
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>> 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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