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Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404

thomas  j sent me a message the other day:

hello...i just purchased a rolling frame...super bronc...just like
yours...did you put a converter clutch on it or a regular mini bike
clutch... also what size engine do you have  on yours and how well does it
move...i am not looking for alot of speed just a comfortable ride...any
insight that you could give me would be greatly appreciated....thanks...tj

My reply:

Hey, thanks for the message. I put a Tecumseh 5 hp on the frame and bolted a 'Torq-a-verter' to the motor which is a centrifugal clutch and a torque converter setup and that runs a chain to the back wheel from the torque converter. 30 years ago it came with a Briggs 8hp which had plenty of go - 50mph top. The 5hp I've got now goes about 35mph top end (course I'm a little heavier these days) on a flat paved road but I kinda wish I had a little more oomph up long hills. Good luck

Let's save ourselves with 'change you can believe in.' Anyway, it's something to do.

According to David Owen of the The New Yorker ; 

The average life span of American pocket change is thirty years. During the past thirty years, the U.S. Mint has produced something like a half trillion coins, most of them cents, yet the Mint estimates that only about three hundred billion coins are currently in circulation. This estimate is probably high, since it includes coins that haven’t budged from their coffee cans in years. Even so, the missing change is worth billions. Where is it? Except in rare cases, old coins, unlike old banknotes, aren’t withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve. People simply mislay them, eventually, in one way or another, and in most cases they disappear as permanently as if they had been dropped into the sea. Pocket change leaks from the economy the way air leaks from a balloon, and most of what leaks is pennies.

"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."

I seem to be getting enough requests for access or screen shots I thought I'd just post them here.

As we try to get our enterprise to embrace the wiki as a way of collaborating and sharing knowledge across vast geo space - Steve Bendt suggested this little gem.