RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
That's a new one on me & definitely didn't come from a lawn mower!
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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No I've never seen one of those either. There again there have been one or two oddballs show up occasionally.
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Is it plastic? Could it be from a very late engine where numbers were low perhaps?
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Looks like an S12 float bowl.
atco lawnmowers used them.
atco lawnmowers used them.
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
yes it's plastic with 2 bleed holes i either side .. i think a good idea much easier to tighten / untighten
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
An expensive job for a toolmaker in the pre CNC days, if it's that early, putting that Seagull text onto the tooling, perhaps a prototype to encourage Seagull not to move all their carb purchases for the 64cc models in the Amal direction.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
The "Made for British Seagull" makes it official. So an interesting find. I suspect from the later days of seagull perhaps.
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
Yep, i'd guess possibly towards the very end of the Villiers carb era before the change to a Bing.
Very late 1970's possibly.
Having the seagull scripting on it does make it look rather official doesn't it, but they do turn up on other applications as well, not just outboard motors.
Jon
Very late 1970's possibly.
Having the seagull scripting on it does make it look rather official doesn't it, but they do turn up on other applications as well, not just outboard motors.
Jon
Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
I have seen that style of float bowl used on Villiers stationary engines and quite possibly ones made here in Oz. Also I have seen them on early Atco mowers but are alloy and not plastic.
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I'm still recovering from my opp and watching TV, I just saw one of these on an Villiers excelsior motor bike freeview shed and buriedOyster 49 wrote:One of these perhaps? Looks very similar?
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Re: RIBBED VILLIER'S FLOAT BOWL
I just love an oddity aye!
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It's ribbed for extra pleasure!
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