Anyone come up with an ingenious method to secure a motor to a wall? As people now seem to consider my unit more akin to a museum than my habitat and are forever telling me to hang my motors on a wall I thought I shall. Logically I should fasten the transom bracket to the wall without the G clamps and have a timber spacer between to clear the magneto. 80mil thickness for the JM magneto and 70mil for the others. Trouble being I wont be able to use the one piece skeletal brass brackets which I consider an integral part of early motors. I could mount a timber bracket to hang complete bracket but due to space consideration I wish to have motors as close to wall as possible. It would be easy to dismount with only having to remove locating pin. Disadvantage being that I'm going to use up a lot of transom brackets that will be permanently located but then I again I only need one bracket to run one motor at a time.
The forty range will need some more consideration as I wish to keep the tilt hook which is a large part of their character even though I can use the bigger motor bracket as above. Fortunate that the drive tube is the same diameter on all early seagulls.
Any other idea? Do people still have the three porcelain seagulls on their walls....what era are they?
ps, Managed to get a 1700's grand father clock up and running yesterday... you should hear it clank, clunk, rattle and groan for a second or two before it clangs the hour. I'm expecting Morticia to walk in at any moment (wishful thinking). The pulley weight winding mechanism uses the same sash cord as a seagull starting rope
