ORIGINAL: planebuilder66
One of the hobby shop owners has a engine test stand made from the 1980's, it's all aluminum, trussed and free standing about 14'' high, it even has a built in throttle bracket with a little T-handle and control rod. I'll have to call him and see who made it, but it was a manufactured engine test stand.
planebuilder: You may be referring to this stand
http://www.pspmfg.com/EngineTestStand.html
Kitbuilder: would you by any chance have a copy of the article electronically? Seems like an excellent idea. I've been wanting to break in a few engines in my backyard, but haven't done so as a courtesy to my neighbors. If the can works, that may have solved my problem. Does the can also catch the oil (or enough of it) so that it doesn't kill a strip of grass behind the test stand?