Saving Old Seagulls

I don't quite know what's happened here financially. I mean I "quite like" seagulls but £700??? glad i'm not paying the ebay fees on this as frankly it has to be some kind of mistake??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

incidentally, are all seagull exhausts brass? if so how does one get the chrome off like that??

maybe they bought the boat with it as there was an option there to combine the two

Well it wasn't exactly as described, unless Seagull secretly made a wscpl with cp cylinder & carb.

A lot of people think that there seagull they have for sale is extremely rare old antique and hard to find, some seem to think any old outboard is a seagull, I have had people argue with me that there is an air cooled model, another called them a shirt shredder, another said how you work on them all week to use them for one day,
I find these people have never had anything to do with them, had one person said his was an unreliable hard to start heap o rubbish, he gave it to me out of disgust, after cleaning out the carb new gearbox oil plug lead and plug I did a 3 day excursion with it and it ran perfect, I have been given 3 excellent seagulls by people who don't understand them

Chris

I agree with the thoughts.

In my my experience, when people haven't got a clue about the piece of machinery in front of them, they will;
* make up some B/S, or,
* make an excuse, or
* tell a lie, or,
* blame someone/something, or,
* justify their lame actions, or,
* my personal favourite is when people walk into my workshop with some broken down piece of gear, then proceed to dictate an incorrect diagnostic, followed by the pathetic rider 'I'd do it myself if only I had the time'
Anything but admit they are clueless & need help. I used to get upset. However, older & wiser it makes me laugh these days. Now realised this unfortunate human trait of having to save face, rather than learning something new.

Have to admit (sheepishly) to falling into this trap myself on occasion. No shame in learning new things.

Rex

I hope the boat was worth it, I'll keep a look out for it in Poole Harbour.

As the other Charles says it's a bitsa - the outboard I mean. Silver Century 1976 or so the crankcase implies, but with an ordinary Century block, a transom bracket from a decade and a half earlier and an exhaust from an earlier model too.

The only exhausts that were brass without any plating were 1942 to 1945/6, the motors supplied for the forces during world war 2. Any SN or virtually all SD models started life with naked brass, but after the war everything went back to the chrome plating as found on the earlier 102s. The first forties and Centuries were plated.

Sometimes the layer of plating was very thin, and it polishes off. I am one of those that believe the brass exhausts sound better. It's a subtle difference, akin to the softer report of a damascus barrelled shotgun as opposed to the harsher modern steel. I suppose that's why there's a brass section of an orchestra rather than an aluminium one.