[SEL] Attention Aussies - Austral Question

[peter ogborne]

Hot tubes are something I have yet to experience .So I read with great 
interest all the previous comments.
My engine did have the remains of two hot tubes ,one internal ,the other 
external. The remains of the internal seemed to comprise of a thin walled 
brass tube containing a rolled Asbestos type of material. This internal tube 
was screwed in horizontally to the combustion chamber. The external tube was 
roughly 12mm diam x100mm  long ,with a 3mm hole bored up its length . This 
was screwed in a vertical position externally in the combustion chamber. For 
some reason it had a square point on it's end
All a bit of a mystery!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Watts" <briwatt at optusnet.com.au>
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Attention Aussies - Austral Question


> Re- satrting coils 4 of our 5 Blackstones all have perforated stainless
> steel coils in Both main & starting chambers some have a mixture of half
> mild steel and balance stainless steel in the starting coil, with no load
> and( at 180 RPM.)on a cool day and idling for a long time they may stop
> after 3 hours or if the air temperature goes down,2 Clutterbucks react the
> same, but our 3HP. Vertical has no Timing valve,no main coil and has 7- 
> 5/16
> steel nuts in the starting chamber and will idle all day with no load.
> When one of our engines stops at a rally it is good for the spectators to
> see the eng. and the procedure for re- starting and we now stop and start
> regularly during the show
> So the stopping problem is now part of our display.
> Brian and David Watts
> Melbourne
> Australia
> (03) 97266147
> http://community.webshots.com/user/briwat
> briwatt at optusnet.com.au
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