Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

[BuddyWhazhizname]

Tom, you're using common sense again. Shame on you!

Back when Harry was posting on the steam car board, when the majority there still believed him, he once claimed having tried 20 different piston designs. No doubt he was telling the truth there, and most likely was significantly underestimating the total.

But he didn't try 20 pistons, it was 20 x 6 = 120 pistons ending up in the scrap box.

Same with valves and cylinders and connecting rods and boiler tubes and pumps and on and on.

Of course you can argue there's a benefit to testing multiple parts in parallel as failures show up more rapidly. That's fine if the engines lasted thousands of running hours, but hardly needed when they fail after a few minutes at low loads.

Remember when Cyclone was claiming on their balance sheet hundreds of thousands in assets in inventory? After changing auditors a couple times they wrote that down to zero. No doubt they still have all those same failed engine parts, it's just the new auditors won't sign off on claiming they have any value.

Maybe with Harry's unbridled ego he figured his worshipers would pay top dollar for any of that scrap metal as souvenirs of his "in-genius".

In the end, though, Harry Schoell and Frankie Fruge have no intention of making working steam engines. Cyclone is a means for them to indulge their whims and gratify their egos at others' expense. 14 years of paid vacation, and counting.