[SEL] Maytags always steal the show !!

[R & M Ingold]

<<  I also will have a twin there belted to an eight quart ice cream machine 
in an old Radio Rocket wagon from the 50s.
>
> I don't think I need to tell you why that will be exciting !!!!  8>)))>>


Oil flavored Ice cream! Hmmmm, Naah , never catch on!!!
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Bowen" <rustaholic777 at yahoo.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Maytags always steal the show !!


> Yup, Tommy,
> You said that twice now,,,,
> So I will tell you.  8>))
>
> I ran my Shotgun Maytag for two years and it was the funny looks and 
> comments from spec-taters that made it fun.  My "Shotgun" is a piece of 
> aluminum tent pole painted black mounted to an early Mouser stock with a 
> couple hand made brass bands. The "Shotgun" was mounted on a pipe stand so 
> the end of the barrel was about seven feet in the air.  I would have 
> people walk straight up to the gun and tell me they heard that all the way 
> across the grounds and they just HAD TO come see what it was.   If you 
> knew the Buckley show grounds,,,, You would know what he was talking 
> about.
> A third year I couldn't do because that cracking gun was too much.
>
> This year I saw another guy with a wanna-be Shotgun Maytag at the Buckley 
> show.  It looked like a band saw had cut that stock out of a plank. It was 
> laying on the ground and I never saw or heard the engine run.
>
> Next year my Maytag will be back, but it will be mounted under a washer 
> and I will either use the reproduction ball muffler or run the exhaust 
> into an old brass fire extinguisher.>
> Alan Bowen
> Williamsburg, Michigan