Saving Old Seagulls

Google is my default search engine. Aparently it is a bug that Google seem very slow to fix. Google Groups will search all newsgroup posts - and its not showing an index link to further pages. If you add - &start=10&sa=n to the url of the first page it will load the second page - ie pages 11...

Completely off topic - but seagull tinkerers are laways trying to find out odd things, so its not completely ott - I cannot search Google groups any more - I just get one page, but no index to futher pages - despite google telling me its found loads more ? I've always used this to find obscure thing...

Having a small cruising yacht - I do appreciate they are there at the end of a vhf call - and I have always subscribed to an offshore membership. I do however think there are some issues that could be addressed with regard funding. For one - if the RNLI goes to the aid of a craft - and feel conditio...

Thanks Charles - interesting read,

as I said, just a thought.
Now, where's that silver paint - lets keep things simple !

Geoff

Of course the problem with this stuff is how it gets delivered. The place is up north somewhere. I'm thinking to get back to him again - to double check on what gauge he could supply. Seagulls seem to be 2.5mm thick which is an swg size I think. I've looked a lot online for 1 1/8 tube and this is th...

I've been attacking a very rusty short shaft drive tube casing - and I see the lug is braised on. I always presumed they were welded. Are all the lugs braised ? Or just the older ones ? If so, they should knock off fairly easily at red heat - an would slip back on to suitable stainless polished tube...

Hi Geoff, ........ I saw you had your boat in Tenby... I'm from Bridgend, where do you moor your boat now? Steve Hi Steve We only stopped overnight in Tenby on the way to Milford last year. She is moored at Weston on the R Axe. Tenby is ideal for getting down Channel - I can get to the Helwick by L...

Hi Steve You were lucky - the choke housing is an easy fix, the tiller arm lug is terminal to the power head casing ! I kmow what you mean about the choke housing - screwing up tight in the wrong place - but they are usually so stiff it does not matter. Maybe a bit of ptfe tape on the last turns of ...

Pretty sure I have one spare - I'll check tomorrow.
I'm after a wipac flywheel if you want to swap somethng ?
I take it thats a uk number - I'm in Bristol.

Geoff

Thanks Peter
Interesting - I think I will fit the later crankcase and fit the Wipac.

Anyone had any experience of the ones from Villiers Parts, listed @ £48 ? Are these genuine Villiers or oem ?

Geoff

Peter - useful info, thanks - So what reading would you expect from a new villiers type unit - or for that matter from a Wipac in perfect order ? Using a 'very basic' analogue meter - on a Wipac ( apparently unused, as new ) I'm getting a 'very small' reading from the primary. maybe 0.2. The seconda...

I need a wipac flywheel/and or baseplate ( I have coils and points units ) ?
I have loads spare bits, some new, I aquired recently. Let me know what you are after if you fancy a swop.
I'm in Bristol, UK.

Geoff

Hi Geoff, just took my century apart to check, points and condensor disconnected, using a fluke DVM, points wire to ground 0.7 ohms HT tag to ground 4.7k ohms Got to put it back together now! Hope that helps. Have been missing your Lena updates for a while, thought you had given up! I also have an ...

My wetline I use all the time on the mooring has a solid transom, the bottom of which is the lowest point of the bottom, and I doubt it sits down more than a couple of inches. But they do dig in when underway and depending on where you sit - and a roundtail would do so even more - as it does not hav...

Thanks all - all very useful. Very nice vid - Youtube comes into its own for stuff this obscure ! Maybe will pick up an analoge meter - but the digital was showing something about right on the good wipacs - looking at those specs for ohm readings - but nothing on all the villiers. I did notice that ...