Reminds me of a friend of mine back in jr. high school. He had been messing with Briggs & Stratton motors for years. Everyone for blocks around knew to bring him their old lawn mower when they got a new one. One day, he decided to turbo-charge a 3.5hp horizontal shaft motor. He dug up a couple squirrel cage blowers from the auto parts yard, rigged them back to back, and then rigged some ducting to and fro. He called his dad out to watch, and fired it up. It went from pull start to 15-bizillion rpms in a heartbeat, then abrupt dead silence. Looked down at the motor and there was a hole through the head about the size of the piston. It was as if it had been neatly machined through. Half the rod was still attached to the crank, and we never did find that piston and the other rod half. Amazing how tense people get when there is abrupt silence around an engine.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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