Saving Old Seagulls

Well, here we are digging through the "archives" some 2 years and 8 months later?

That was my old motor (i've got better at the restoration thing now though!)

I think it now lives in JERSEY with another flock

jon

Just to remind you of what this looked like. serial number C1404 (i think)
I currently have C1655L a work in progress and put together from parts that i've been gathering over the years.( much more correct than this one shown! )

Looking back now, yep, not a bad attempt even if i say so myself!

enjoy

A nice looking motor until you look at it up close, water outlet at the back, I can see why that's not been turned around to the side, something to do with the screws in the bottom of the exhaust tube.
I thought they only used tank jubilee clips on the aluminium tank mounts.
Did seagull use cap screws.

KEITH
screw in the bottom of the exhaust tube was probably a "running repair" done years ago (not by me i might add)
Screws in the end cap? well i've got a few with nuts and screws so not entirely sure about that, but if i was to guess i'd say the nut type was earlier, screw type slightly later (pre 55 ish) maybe later. Strange things these seagulls, they dont always conform to rules.

On reflection it was a "bitsa", but a nice looking "bitsa".
The 2 charles seemed to like it!
It looked good from 6 feet away at least!

I still cant beleive that was nearly 3 years ago. where has that time gone?
The flock has grown quite a bit since then

jon

early AC's and AD's with the bayonet style fuel cap probably had the jubilee clip tank attachment.
when the tanks were redesigned for the screw type fuel cap i beleive that the later straps were brought in to replace them.
i prefer the look of the "rough and ready" jubilee clip version.

CHARLES P is the man for the history lesson, but i think i'm reasonably good. (i'm getting better )

jon

I'm not putting the motor down at all, I myself would have replaced or made good any damaged or wrong parts, it can be a bit hit and miss with the right parts sometimes, that's why I stick to Villiers motors and no later when it comes to seagulls, plus I haven't got the room for much more, we all start off with one motor, thirty odd later you wonder how or why it started.
It was the cap screws in the base of the drive tube I was more interested about.
History lesson, no I don't think so.

"running repair"
From memory, the pump housing was a tad "fragile" around the torque tube, and i think the idea of the screws in the pump housing/drive tube area was to strengthen things a bit! (thats how i got?)
I wore my fingertips down to stumps with that one!

As mentioned before, 6 foot away it looked really good (until you get close to it and look hard)

jon