[SEL] Decision Time

[Listerdiesel]

Seriously (for a minute anyway)

After more discussions the other evening, and following on from
George's posting, we are at the point of deciding on whether to devote
more time to the website and engine matters therein, and less on the
actual mechanical side of things.

I am going to be 62 in February, and while I am still very active, the
lugging around of big lumps of iron is starting to take its toll. Like
my mate, Reggie, I also had a motorcycle accident (back in the early
1980's) and although I didn't break anything then, the muscles on my
left arm and shoulder are starting to give me a fair bit of trouble,
as a result of hitting a car that turned across me as I was overtaking
him...(wrote off my BMW R100CS as well)

Anyway,  we wanted to get all the engine Patents and other
carb/magneto stuff listed and on the website before I got to the stage
where my eyesight wasn't up to doing the volume of computer work
required. That implies something like 3-4 years work, and with the
other stuff that we have in the queue for the website, I cannot see us
having the time to play with the engines AND do the website work.

The other problem is the cost of storage. We rent a farm building to
house most of the overspill from the workshop and the engine tent
outside the house, and that is going to get more expensive soon.
That's nearly 1000sq ft altogether.

We'll still be around and active on the Lists, but we will wind down
the engine collection (about 15 at present) to just the Ruston and the
Diter and maybe one of the Cub gennies.

The decision is almost made, unless someone can give me a VERY good
reason not to do it?

Peter
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Peter A Forbes
Email: listerdiesel at gmail.com
http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel
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