On May 8, 5:45*pm, oldcoot wrote:
On May 7, 2:34*pm, Double-A wrote: On May 7, 11:53*am, (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:

Double-A *Electric motors only make a very soft hum. *Stanley steamer
was invented in Newton Ma at "upper Falls" Pretty place *Jay Leno has a
Stanley steamers he runs once in a while in LA. I'm A poor man's Jay
Leno *Bert

I remember seeing a guy driving a Stanley Steamer when I was a kid.
Maybe if we could stoke them with wood, it would beat the $4 gal.
gas. *How much is a cord of wood these days?

The Stanley Steamer went through several iterations. Here's a neat
technical site on one model. Turns out you can't burn wood in 'em.http://www.stanleymotorcarriage.com/...neralTechnical...


Ever hear of the smudge pot technique for running engines? Just about
anything that burns can work, not only wood. Maybe that will be in
our future, once black gold pours more costly than melted yellow gold!

Double-A