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Reply #15 on: September 06, 2011, 12:27:45 am
So, what I want to know is where can I get a Big Bore Kit for it?  ;D :D
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Reply #16 on: September 08, 2011, 05:38:52 am
This article has been around since at least 2003 ...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article80219.ece

Might even be a hoax, hard to tell without doing some serious research into the claims.


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Reply #17 on: September 08, 2011, 09:42:28 am
"....Might even be a hoax......"

That's what I meant by April 1st. In UK it's "April Fool" day, and stories like this come up every year. A famous one was some years ago on Panorama - a national TV daily current affairs program - when Richard Dimbleby ran a story about the Swiss spaghetti harvest. The first TV hoax.They did the whole thing - peasants were shown picking the stuff off trees in pasta plantations!  Thousands of people went looking for pasta plants, and jammed the BBC phonelines asking where they could be found. :D

I reckon this little petrol engine is in the same category...... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ
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Reply #18 on: September 08, 2011, 03:45:32 pm
With modern MEMs methods they can make some pretty small stuff. But a running engine is still waaayyyy in the future. It's the half believeable part that makes these claims so cruel. ;D
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