[Fot] 25th Anniversary of the FOT 2021

[Mike Harmuth]

Mixing in a little Cox Glow Plug fuel (nitromethane) with the gas made sure
our string of scraped lawn mower engines didn't live very long either.
But man was it fun.

mike h

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 9:59 AM Bob Kramer via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Up north we looked for old snowblowers.
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> Bob Kramer
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> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:17 AM fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Ok so how many others used to get up extra early on trash pickup day and
>> scour the neighborhood for junk reel lawnmowers [image: Wink]?
>> Glen
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Charlton via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
>> To: Gary Schneider <garygret at sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: fot at autox.team.net <fot at autox.team.net>; fubog1 <fubog1 at aol.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Dec 31, 2020 8:38 am
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] 25th Anniversary of the FOT 2021
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>> I discovered the same as Gary did with the Tecumseh engine on my Rupp
>> go-kart when I was 13 or 14.  After about a year of this the flywheel
>> exploded, with the heavy magnet portion deciding to end its union with the
>> rest of the lump.  I felt a big impact behind my right shoulder just before
>> the engine suddenly lost power.  I was damned lucky that the chunk with the
>> magnet (which must have weighed 2 or 3 lbs.) bounced off the steel tubing
>> supporting the edge of the sheet metal seat pan, saving me from a
>> serious injury.  I found the piece about 30 feet away in the grass.
>>
>> Duncan
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>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot <
>> fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Glen, that's great! My dad built me a go-kart out of plywood and an old
>> reel lawnmower when I was around that size or a little bigger. I discovered
>> my first speed mod: it went lots faster if you tied a string to the
>> throttle and pulled it open past the governor. Turned out not for very long
>> though, a big BANG clang-a-lang-a-lang after a few hot laps of the yard. My
>> first motorized device and the first engine I blew up. Ungrateful little
>> hellion. Fortunately there was no photographic evidence or body cams to
>> capture the guilty look.
>>
>> Gary Schneider
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>> On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 9:13:16 AM CST, fubog1 via Fot <
>> fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Yes, yes, and yes.
>> Glen Efinger
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>> ps- here's my picture in advance, the 1st racecar I ever built, my
>> brother John is driver.
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>> [image: glensfirstracecar.jpg]
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