[SEL] Petter AV2-M Restore, progress report No. 3

[edurand at mchsi.com]

Arnie:

Okey dokey!  Just get a 235 Jimmie engine, a quarter pound of black powder and some fuse and give me a call.    :-)

Take care - (a slightly older and wiser) Elden
-------------- Original message from "Arnie Fero" <fero_ah at city-net.com>: -------------- 


> Well, duh... Re-do!! 8-)) 
> 
> On Thu, April 30, 2009 6:47 pm, edurand at mchsi.com wrote: 
> > Arnie: 
> > > This happened almost 50 years ago and I didn't have my camera handy. At the 
> time, > we just thought it was interesting the way it turned out. Had I known you'd 
> want to 
> > see the Kodaks, I woulda took some. 
> > 
> > Take care - Elden 
> > -------------- Original message from "Arnie Fero" : 
> > -------------- 
> > 
> > >> Hmmmm, sounds pretty fantastical. I don't imagine that there are any 
> pictures? 
> >> 
> >> See ya, Arnie 
> >> 
> >> On Fri, April 24, 2009 9:52 am, Elden DuRand wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> > A long time ago I tried the gunpowder trick once with limited success. >> > > The whole thing was an experiment. I had to get rid of about a quarter 
> pound >> of > black powder and the engine was a locked-up GMC 235 engine that was 
> headed 
> >> for 
> >> the 
> >> > scrap heap. 
> >> > > Actually, what happened is that the piston was driven down hard enough to 
> >> compress > the rod, break the crankshaft and blow the oil pan partly off. I 
> think, 
> >> had 
> >> the > engine been salvageable, it would have been better to use more 
> conventional 
> >> methods. 
> 
> 
> 
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