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Hey Bruce, Happy Easter, man 🐣

Thank you for all your help, my Whippet runs again, lol.

I was literally a tooth off, got it back in time, and it’s off to the races.  Starts up easily as before, and I put probably at least an hour and a half of time on it this morning.

Loud?  Yeah it is!  I used an old T shirt to calm it’s bark today… I figured the neighbors didn’t want to hear as much Whippet music as I did, haha 😂

Gonna have to let Mona know about the guy Chris Rapmoz’s connecting rod issue and finding out the hard way that the bushings are not in fact drilled.

I did do some research on Musa.  Musa is a Japanese word for “Wood Forest” and they are the Chinese company behind Kacio steam engines. They make all the high-end multi cylinder steam engines and beautiful boilers that Stirlingkit sells.  Not much is out there about them; they have a store on a Chinese selling app, and I found them by searching “Musa steam engine” using Google Translate into Chinese.

This is their headquarters. “Mushan Precision Hardware Technology”

Exactly as you said; the Whippet still has great potential… taking mine apart I was yet again extremely impressed with its build quality. Hell, I was even impressed with the torque on the hardware / hex bolts

Hope you have a great Easter dude. I’ll get a YouTube set up ASAP.  -j