Fooling around at work we came up with this new scooter. We have not found anyone dumb enough to test it out, and do not want to.
One of the guys at work had foot surgery and we thought this would help him get around a little faster with his knee scooter.

The wheels are ball bearing and with the engine cranked up it should get moving rather quickly.
This is a prime example of to much time on your hands in between tasks.
I was hoping to get some run time on the engine, it is brand new and waiting to be mounted in a plane.
While waiting to get some run time in a plane we came up with this as a joke only.


This has not and will never be run on the knee scooter. This was a office joke between a few of us. Pictures only taken


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Put some wings on it and fly it...

i could use that for some testing issues lol

Looks like it could take your face right off. I can just see a guy tooling around the parking lot on that contraption--he hits a little rock and the scooter comes to an abrupt stop. His body weight forces him forward and he plants his face right in the prop. [sm=75_75.gif]

Tear it apart before someone DOES try it and ends up in the hospital. [sm=wink_smile.gif]

Your contraption really looks like the end result of fooling around. Seriously, with that big prop out in the open without a shroud, it's just looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Karol

it sure does!


Get video!!!

This has not and will not be run. Motor has been put on a plane.
This was done fooling around at work and NEVER intended to be run, just a inhouse pun.

when I was 13 years old --I fastened my Bluestreak .65 to the basket on my bike - no throttle - a control line glow engine
actually started it and got on and tried to go for a ride .
I got plenty of castor oil spray on me
I stunk up my clothes - the thing would not pull me - and all in all a dismal failure -but I was 13-and curious.
Another "how dumb can you get" story -
A friend told me his neighbor asked to borrow a circular saw blade - tho he did not have a circular saw .
"Why?" my friend asked
Answer
the neighbor wanted to trim shrubs and was going to attach it to his hand drill .
He did not get the blade.

When I was about 12 I mounted cox .049's on Frisbees and would let them go.
Never went very far before quiting.

Used to own a construction company. There are more stupid ways for stupid people to injure themselves than there are tools and contraptions to do it with. I've seen some lulus with results making it all the way to quadraplegic. The self amputations/mutilations don't even count because they are too easy to perform. Just quit paying attention and put a body part in the way of any type of blade.

Dick's presentation of the saw blade for the drill motor is up there with some of the all time greats.

The parody of the "knee scooter" is funny. I'm quite pleased to see that it will never run.

This is a true event! I saw the aftermath and heard about it from his dad.

A not so smart, young friend of mine "19", a long time ago, took a os61h engine, brand new and wanted to break it in before he put in in the copter.
He relived this story to me and showed me the evidence. DUMB, I may pull a picture joke or two like above but will never take it or go any further!
This hobby is dangerous enough without doing dumb things. After 25years in I still have all fingers and appendics (spelling?) and hope to keep it that way.

Back to it.

1: He mounted a circular 7inch blade on the front of the engine with some shims and spacers. This was for a load on the engine he said.
2: It was not balanced or centered very well, he said.
3: He clamped the motor in a metal vise, metal to metal. Know where this is going?????????
4: He started it up, high idle. He thought it sounded cool!!
5: He then proceded to run it up. slow spool up. He said he thought it would sound even better at a higher rpm.
6: It then SCARED THE $#!T out of him, he backed away, it's still spooling up, out of balance and still reving up.
7: It then popped out of the vise, RPM unknown, dropped to the floor. ENGINE STILL RUNNING with gas tank dangling.
8: It then DUG a groove in the concrete floor over to the garage door. ~5-6ft away, it was ~1/8 INCH DEEP.
Thank god he was out of the way. better yet not stupid enough to do this. I think he learned from this.
9: it proceded to cut a slot in the door as it moved up it ~3ft.
10: At this point it stopped, his dad came out and let him have it.
11: His girl friend at the time gave him $#!T for several days along with several of us.


Once again the above was only a picture joke of office humor and will never be run.
Motor is in a plane safe and sound!

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Now if you had mounted the Bluestreak .65 on the back of your bicycle....<G>


Ed Cregger