Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:43:12 -0500
From: Bill Caloccia
To: empire list
Subject: FINSUP:    PAWS  UP       :^(

All the news, as it happens.
Worcester, Mass. 0930 12 Feb 1999  -wpc

This was to break-in the second Turner Engine (the first bent a rod earlier this year with ~2000 miles on it !), and the vendor, RN, stood behind the product it sold, and kindly supplied this one, (but it should be noted that the re-manufacturer, Turner, did not stand by their workmanship, Rover's North really did make good in supplying another engine.

Anyway, Jeff got about 60 miles from home, up on I-91 South of Hartford, and there was a bang followed by billowing clouds of radiator steam... preliminary analysis is that the fan loosened up and got out of plane, puncturing the radiator. [Rumors that Eric Zipkin was the person who pressed that fan on the shaft some years ago are entirely TRUE.]

As he was on the phone to me waiting for it to stop pissing all over the place, Marty from Long Island pulled up (who we were to rendezvous with in Worcester), and they've called AAA to send it back to the shop that did the work, and Jeff should be on his way with Marty by now. We'll meet in Worcester, and I'll drive the Rangie up and most likely take Jeff back to Rowayton after the Romp.

Bill Caloccia
Worcester, Ma
12 February 1999

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