[AT] Corn Picking and storage.

[charliehill]

I wouldn't argue that point with you Gene.  I wonder if there is a specific 
definition written somewhere in a text or manual?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Picking and storage.


>    To all you idle folks out there.
>
>    Isn't the term actually "HIGH IDLE" for maximum speed with no load? I
> side with Herb and Ralph that a "FAST IDLE" is any speed above the normal
> slow speed of the engine.
>
>                        Gene
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Picking and storage.
>
>
>> My concept of fast idle was always anything above normal  idle, usually
>> for
>> warm up purposes. On automatic choke vehicles the engine would
>> automatically
>> go onto fast idle until warmed up enough to "kick off". I've never
>> considerd
>> fast idle to be the same thing as full throttle. Guess I need to read my
>> old
>> tractor manuals and see how they define the terms.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
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>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Picking and storage.
>>
>>
>> Very good, Charlie. Fast idle is full throttle (governed speed) with no
>> load
>> on the engine.
>>
>>
>>
>> That's the speed you're supposed to use for main jet adjustment on a
>> tractor
>> carburetor.
>>
>>
>>
>> But with injected engines, computerized control, non-adjustable main
>> jets, and a bunch of other bells and whistles, the term is being
>> forgotten or redefined.
>>
>>
>>
>> My wife commented to me earlier this week about the former location of
>> the last carburetor shop we had in our town. She helped me deliver our
>> old Ford Courier to that shop for a tune-up on the day before we
>> decided to buy a new pickup. That was in 1997. The shop was razed a 
>> couple
>> of years later.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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