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THE BATTALION Page 3
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1978
By BRIAN BONNET
Battalion Reporter
Although there were times of de-
bair, disappointment and bruised
nuckles, Don Frei never gave up
n his hobby. The junior marketing
)ajor from Westphalia is infatuated
ith restoring old, single cylinder,
jasoline powered engines.
I virtually fell in love,” he said,
'hen he first saw a “one lunger de-
iign” four years ago. Frei first
incountered a “one lunger design”
it a neighbor’s house.
Having been raised on a farm
id working on engines, naturally I
•ecanie mechanically inclined,”
7 rei said.
In May of 1977, Frei and his
irother found an antique engine at a
'^er lease in Fredericksburg. The
me plate showed that the engine
■’as a Johnson and Fuller, patented
1909.
Frei bought the engine. While in-
ipecting it, he found the engine was
»mplete, but entirely rusted to
gether. The timing gears were chip-
id and had to be replaced, and a
puplicate was made of the rusted gas
lank.
Using the rust solvent WD 40 to
lisassemble the engine, Frei took
pach piece and sanded it with sand
iaper and emery cloth. On some of
he larger pieces he used an electric
mder.
Frei used no guidelines but his
lechanical intuition in piecing the
ingine back together.
There were grave times,” Frei
id, in putting the engine back to
gether, because the engine was so
irehistoric in terms of today’s
aotors. It was just like studying the
listory of mechanics.”
Frei said the Fuller and Johnson
as an air-cooled, three horsepower
Battalion
Classified
Call 845-2611
engine which weighed 480 pounds.
It was used as a substitute for wind
power on wind mills.
Rebuilding the engine took Frei
14 months. He still remembers
when the engine first started.
“There were times of despair, lost
knuckles and a feeling of if it was
worth it, but I’ll never forget when
the engine began running,” Frei
said. “I had a baseball cap on, and
when that engine first began sput
tering and then running, that cap hit
the ceiling.”
Frei took last year off from school,
and had time to work on his
engines. His major complaint about
going to school now is that he
doesn’t have time to spend on his
hobby, except weekends.
Frei is also working on two more
engines in his spare time at home.
One is an Ottawa brand engine and
the other is a Bull Pup. Frei esti
mates that both are from the early to
med-1920s, but has been unable to
pinpoint their exact dates yet.
Frei found the Ottawa engine
about 15 months ago while at a
neighbor’s house. He spied its fly
wheel sticking out of a pile of rub
bish.
“This engine is special because it
was used as a saw,” Frei said. “This
was the first attempt by man to saw,
other than means of human or steam
power. It is the predecessor of the
modem chain saw.”
The engine has parts missing from
it, some of them from the sawing
mechanism. He hopes to have the
missing parts duplicated from pic
tures and specifications taken from
The Gas Engine Magazine, a publi
cation about early farm machinery
equipment.
Frei’s most recent acquisition,
the Bull Pup, was used as a corn
meal grinder. The Bull Pup was a
small engine made by the Bull Dog
Company.
Frei said this engine will be the
hardest to rebuild because the tim
ing device is missing. He said he
can’t begin work until he can find
the part.
“The engine is in limbo right
now,” Frei said. "Hopefully, an ar
ticle will come up or I can write a
column to The Gas Engine
Magazine explaining my problem
and they can publish it.”
This past July, Frei went to the
Annual Antique Early Farm
Machinery Show in Meridian. Frei
said out of the 160 early gas engines
there, none were like his.
Frei also said that the chairman of
the Association of Texas Antique
and Early Day Farm Machinery told
him that the Fuller and Johnson is
very rare, and that he has only seen
one that is in running condition.
Frei estimates that he has spent
about $300 on his engines. They
have a net worth of over $1,500. “I
had a guy offer me $500 for the Ful
ler and Johnson engine, but I re
fused,” Frei said. He added that
he’ll probably never give his
engines up because of their senti
mental value.
“It is a feeling of pride and ac
complishment to come home and
start the Fuller and Johnson,” Frei
said. “Working on the other ones
gives me a great feeling, too.”
Frei said his father told him when
he began working on his first engine
that he would never get it to run.
“Now he is just as proud of it as I
am,” Frei said. “Whenever a friend
comes over, he always asks if they
have seen my engine run.”
U.S., Yugoslavia seek
improvements in trade
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BELGRADE — The United
States and Communist Yugoslavia
are pushing to improve trade levels
and economic cooperation.
In a way it’s an investment in the
future on both sides. It could even
be called insurance.
Yugoslavia, whose number one
individual trading partner is the
Soviet Union, is looking for new
markets so as not to become overly
reliant on the East bloc for its eco
nomic needs in case economic de
pendence could be used as a pres
sure point in the future, diplomats
say.
The United States, always ready
for new markets, also is interested
in joint ventures with the Yugoslavs.
Trade between the two countries
has shown a nearly threefold in
crease since 1970 to a two-way total
around $700 million last year, with
$1 billion in trade expected this
year.
Moreover, the trade is more or
less balanced, in sharp contrast with
Yugoslavia’s massive $2.4 billion
deficit with the Common Market
countries in 1977.
The United States ranks number
four — behind the Soviet Union,
West Germany and Italy, among
Belgrade’s individual trading
partners. But, as one U.S. source
said, "It’s a long way from one to
four.”
At last year’s meeting between
President Carter and Yugoslav Pres
ident Josip Broz Tito in Washington
it was agreed to set up economic
working groups on both sides to
focus on specific trade problems.
Heading the U.S. side is Under
secretary for Commerce Frank Weil
who journeyed to Yugoslavia in Sep
tember to open a modern new
American business center in the
heart of downtown Belgrade and to
underscore the importance placed
on U.S. participation in this year’s
annual Zagreb trade fair.
For their part the Yugoslavs sent
a high-ranking trade delegation to
the United States the last week of
September, led by Ilij Valdc, presi
dent of the Yugoslav Chamber of
Commerce, and including business
leaders and company directors from
about 40 of Yugoslavia’s top firms
and banks.
The group was meeting with rep
resentatives of top U.S. firms in
areas including agriculture, chemis- -
try, metals and metal products and
retail trade. Valdc said they would
“offer goods to their American
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United States in October and
November to try to drum up busi
ness for their export goods, includ
ing canned food, wines, textiles,
clothes, leather and shoes and
mechanical tools and parts.
American sources say there is a
psychological block to be overcome
on both sides.
In the U.S. there is a lot of ignor
ance about Yugoslavia, with its de
centralized Communist rule and
system of “self management,” al
though the country does not fall
within the Department of Com
merce’s Bureau of East-West Trade
but is treated as a Western Euro
pean country.
On the Yugoslav side, American
sources said, there is almost a fear of
getting too deeply involved in the
huge and extremely competitive
American market. They are con
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Yugoslav companies could compete
in quantity and price as well as qual
ity.
U.S. Ambassador Lawrence Eag-
leburger sees the key to expanding
American business in Yugoslavia as
increased Yugoslav exports to the
United States and said the new
American business center will be
used to promote two-way trade:
“I’m personally convinced if we
want to sell more to Yugoslavia we
have got to buy more from Yugos
lavia,” he said.
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