[SEL] Maytags always steal the show !!

[Peter Lowe]

Hi Mark
Don't let those devil worshipers upset you mate, my cousin came to stay last 
weekend and I took him out to the shed. I was looking around for an engine 
that had fuel in it to start one for him. I shook the Maytag 72 twin and 
found that there was about 3/4" of old fuel still in there. Now this engine 
has not been started for well over twelve months and that fuel was stale, I 
started second push from my hand, not kicked, as it sits high on a stand. 
The reason it took two kicks was I forgot to open the air valve first. It 
ran the smokiest it had ever run as I guess the gas had evaporated a little 
leaving a higher concentration of oil. I normally run it at 40:1 and have 
since 1999. I then gave it a drink of fresh fuel and it purrrred like a 
kitten with just a whisper of that tell tale smoke.
This is the engine/motor I bought off our big buddy Leroy Clarke at Portland 
1999.
Ahhh, love that two stroke smell, if it was not smoking you would not know 
it was running amongst all those loud H&M one lungers ;-)))

Peter, Oz



>
> Mark,
> Fred was about 30 years too late with his "good idea".  By the time
> he saw the light, everyone else had as well and had gotten the farm
> electrified!
>
> But, if it weren't for rural electrification, we wouldn't have all
> these wonderful little smoke bombs laying around to play with.  They
> have long ago been separated from their washers so grampy could put
> that swell little electric motor on there.  It was great, after-all
> you don't have to kick and kick and kick and kick to get those
> electric motors to go!! 8-)