<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I finally built one with steering- albeit backwards😊<img src="cid:5994FB3D-450F-494E-B7B6-95BDDE615489-L0-001"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 31, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Erik Jacobsen via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4db457b7yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
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On Thursday, December 31, 2020, 10:58:34 AM CST, DAVE HOGYE via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:12pt;">In my freshman year of high school, a friend in took a washing machine apart, had the water pump in his hand and thought it looked just like a turbo charger. We thought, why not attach it to a minibike engine. Before attaching it to an engine, he somehow spun the pump up and another classmate thought he might put his finger in there. The tip of his finger shot out of the other end and hit the ceiling. We thought that was pretty funny. I still do. A pencil would have been a better idea.</span>
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On 12/31/2020 6:12 AM fubog1 via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<span style="font-size:small;">Ok so how many others used to get up extra early on trash pickup day and scour the neighborhood for junk reel lawnmowers <img style="vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/wink.png" alt="Wink" width="25" height="25" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-unique-identifier="">?</span>
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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.
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot <
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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.
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<span style="font-size:small;">ps- here's my picture in advance, the 1st racecar I ever built, my brother John is driver.</span>
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