Saving Old Seagulls

............... but seagull service sheets discourage removal of the pinion............. I've never felt that....there's no "Do not remove" stamped on the gearbox anywhere; or printed in the manual........... just a "whack it evenly with a lump of wood to avoid bruising the casting&q...

Tch.. ..tch

C'mon chaps ...

Give them a chance .........................

The colonials are always so insecure...............................


Peter

Yes, the standard shaft Century and 40+ models use the same part number drive shaft casing and drive shaft.

Peter

you can't turn this coils core on a lathe since its laminated. its a stack of maybe 25 individual metal sheets. i believe this is to reduce wasteful eddy currents within the coil which can cause it to heat up. Eddy current losses are indeed I squared R resistive losses and therefore energy losses i...

i chose to weld the brackets on because i have a tig welder in my shop and because i like to play with heat, smoke and fire and do so every chance i get. the brackets could just as easily be attached with small screws - but whats the fun, danger and potential of hurting yourself in that? Welding to...

You need to make good, physically solid and electrically low resistance connections from the shoes to the core of your coil, but even with that warning mine sparked nicely when I just pushed parts together. A lot of posts to catch up with since returning so apologies for not picking up on this one ...

as i understand the internal configuration of the viliers coil is a bit of a mystery, but this shop says they disassemble one to determine its makeup. There is nothing complicated or a mystery on the internal configuration. It is a simple autotransformer. Check back over posts by H-A and myself for...

All you need is a thin metal cutting blade in a small angle grinder. The whole process takes about half an hour. cut down.jpg H-A And another recycled pic and post. Use of a joiner's mitre saw makes it an abs doddle to keep the end of the sawn tube square... http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/for...

Charles uk wrote:No problem I won't throw it away.

Are you really really sure it is in the foot well? Were there two of them?



Peter

Been using these for years on sat dishes.....just don't see how they have the bandwidth for real time steering control!

Peter

Hi all. 2. Removing dome nut. How to lock flywheel while tapping spanner? Would heat help? Oil filter strap spanner is a great idea however a quick sharp whack on the tommy bar in well fitting box spanner on the dome nut has never failed here..... simply rely on the inertia of the flywheel, no need...

Mutineer wrote: Nice motor though, came with a spare prop. many springs etc and factory tiller extension!
Thanks again

Keep the springs and tiller extension when you sell, they will work OK 0n the 40+

Peter

So what part of the original post is illegible? Nothing at all! Displays perfectly as keyed on both my CRT and LCD displays. Carefully tried and checked your post on both of them! The intelligibility of your post and subsequent entries from the colonies definitely tax the translation facility at ht...

Sorry H-A. Rather embarrassing................. But there is "one" of LARS in the web folder but not linked in to the post. ( I sometimes upload more than I link to......) And uploading direct as part of the post onto the SOS server loses the flexibility in layout and the opportunity to ad...

Surprised to find I took relatively few and quite a few of them were terrible quality..........more pictures of steam launches that Seagulls. Sorry, Charles they'll have to take your word for the lycra...... And in no particular order........... http://inlinethumb58.webshots.com/44217/29911799001033...