Re: M-9's are cute....

[Ron Zammit <rzammit@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>]

Someone bit my lure!  Actually the M-9, with no cab, is quite nimble.  
And I did go up that 6% grade with it.  Not only that, but remember there
is a crossing about half way up, AND there was traffic, so I had to stop.
Getting the car started took a lot of slipping, but I do use the "drafting
pad" on the belt, so it squealed a lot but got going and kept up with the
Onans.  (The pad you buy at a drafting supply shop, or campus bookstore ;)
and is normally used to wipe off drawings - it is ground up eraser inside.  
This is what is slipping not the belt.  It allows your belt to be run with
less tension also.)

ron

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 M19SOORKB@Prodigy.Net wrote:

> Ron Zammit wrote:
> 
> > I've sent Rich pictures of my M-9 on a run at Hill City, SD.
> 
> Now that's a "big fish" story if I ever heard it!  C'mon, Ron!
> Do you expect us to believe that an M9 was able to climb
> that 6% grade out of Hill City!!!  What did you do, get a
> 55 mph head start?  <VBG>
> 
> Mike Paul
> Oshkosh, WI
> 
> 
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