"Ken" <kkerrison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 15, 10:50 pm, "Keith Willcocks"
> <invalidaddr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "djimbo" <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> news:47da5357$0$28007$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > "Keith Willcocks" <invalidaddr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> > message
>> >news:frb16n$iea$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> My newsreader has failed to pick up the original post in this thread
>> >> so
>> >> would someone care to re-supply the missing website link so I can
see
>> >> what it is about please.
>> >> --
>> >> Keith Willcocks
>> >> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
>>
>> > Hi Keith here's the origional SPAM for what it's worth.
>>
>> Thanks djimbo. Now I see what everyone is on about. Personally I
>> wouldn't trust anything that has what looks suspiciously like an old
>> Robinson's Marmalade Jar for its main component, and isn't HHO just H2O
>> written differently? Brown's Gas of course is what permeated the
House
>> of
>> Commons every budget day from 1997 to 2007 ;o)
>>
>> The only thing I can add to the conversation is that my old BSA Bantam
>> when
>> I was a lad ran better and gave better fuel economy when it was raining
>> but
>> that was solely the moisture in the air affecting the mixture. I
>> suppose a
>> bit like the water injection that I seem to remember hearing of.
>> --
>> Keith Willcocks
>> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
>
> BSA Bantam - now that takes me back. My only experience with water as
> a fuel was when my old Ford 2000 diesel tractor was hard to start and
> produced m***** of smoke. Turned out the tank had built up a high
> water content from decades of condensation. Drain the fuel, flush
> everything out, replace the fuel filter, no problem.
>
> I vaguely remember, 50 - 60 years ago, seeing ads in Popular Mechanics
> for water injection (and also other weird petrol-saving gadgets). Or
> was it Popular Science? Ah the memories - all sparked by Keith
> mentioning the Bantam (I never owned one - I had a bike called a Sun,
> with a Villiers engine. But the Bantams looked and sounded better.
> And, like many motor bike users, one day I suddenly found myself on my
> back in the traffic as my bike disappeared under the car which bumped
> me.
Which is exactly how my Bantam (1949 or 50 125cc model I think with no
rear
suspension, but large springs under the rear edge of the saddle, and a
bulb
horn) ended its days in 1962. The frame got cracked and I couldn't get
it
repaired. I had one scary experience. It stalled at the traffic
lights,
so I quickly kicked down and started the engine again. The lights went
green and I pulled smoothly away - backwards. The firing point was very
close to top dead centre and the two stroke engine in Bantams would
happily
run in reverse if it happened to kick back when you kick started it.
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
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