Saving Old Seagulls

I've been talking to everyone I know who's got a skeletal bracket to find the details of their safety chandelier chains, the pitch of the chain seems to be 2.5 links per inch, which is the same as the safety chain on the bayonet fuel cap & the retaining chain on the locking pin that stops the mo...

Well it seems there is no demand for any re-manufactured ones of these, so there's a job I don't have to do.

During the war, drive shaft tubes were coated with Zinc finding an SD drive shaft tube with traces of Zinc remaining are a bit like rocking horse droppings. Most have been replaced by chrome plated ones. The parts illustrated that are now cadmium plated have replaced the nickel plated originals, whi...

Chris B, so if you immerse in salt water a Seagull lower unit, that is a cadmium plated drive shaft tube, stainless steel prop shaft, aluminium prop & gear box, which bit becomes the sacrificial anode? Ignoring the fact that cadmium plating is banned in most of the World except for some military...

I wonder you never seem see it recommended for use in mixed metal areas, for a salt water environment?

Great bit of work Hugo, would an ammeter connected to the drill press give a visible indication of when it starts to get harder to rotate your Seagull at 400 RPM, i.e. when the friction rises & any damage might start to occur?

I bought an SD that didn't have a spark, from a chap who'd tried every trick in the book to get it sparking apart from remove the flywheel as he didn't have a coolie hat puller tool, the most obvious sign I remember was filings in the top of the cylinder. I was so pixxed off, as I thought I'd bought...

Bent crankshaft, cracked bore.

This restoration will require the use of a spanner.

The only thing I can see in the wartime parts book is the felt washer between the Bakerlite HT lead end & the base plate.

You've no idea how much it hurts giving well earned compliments to a man from your side of Hadrian's wall, but you've done a cracking job on that Tam!

If your short of something to do for the next few months, I've several Seagulls that I'd like you to give them your treatment!

Post the full engine number, from the bottom of the crankcase, so we know exactly what you've got.

Quite a secure containment area, I'll see if I can get a picture of one of the armed guards, this place is the New Zealand equivalent of America's skunk works!

Pinger these are the only pics I can find, this is the twin on a hover boat, this is the work of the mad professor at his worst! 20181114_130530_resized.jpg 20181114_130530_resized.jpg Sorry it's not a boxer but just a "side by side" like an Anzani sport twin. The "mad Prof" stol...

That accounts for the hole in the tip & no provision in the bracket side for a chain fixing point!

Thanks for a perfect answer!

Found this in the back of my car, baseplate locking screw.
With a 8mm bolt welded on the end.