Kiwi's Thinking Outside The Box

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Here are some pics of the Mk 1 Seagull twin.
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And I thought "Charles" Heath-Robinson was dead.
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Not me that's more of Raoul's work.

Don't ever mention me in the same breath as anything Kiwi, or I'll be clouting you with my gauntlet & meeting you at dawn!

To defend whatever honour I have left.
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So it's not true that your secret skunk works team working on the worlds first "Deltic" Seagull engine to crush everything in your wake.
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How about a Seagull Square Four"?
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Charles uk wrote:Here are some pics of the Mk 1 Seagull twin.
The photographs are 'no longer available'.
Are they of the boxer configured engine I've heard of, and if so, is it possible they can be reposted?
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Pinger these are the only pics I can find, this is the twin on a hover boat, this is the work of the mad professor at his worst!
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Sorry it's not a boxer but just a "side by side" like an Anzani sport twin.

The "mad Prof" stole the hull design from the Death Star!

Note the electric fence to prevent escape attempts!
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Re: Kiwi's Thinking Outside The Box

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Thanks Charles.
Presumably, at least one of the bushes in each engine converted to rolling element bearings - to counter the pull of the chain.
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My plans are still so far up in the air I might end up with an aeroplane engine....
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Quite a secure containment area, I'll see if I can get a picture of one of the armed guards, this place is the New Zealand equivalent of America's skunk works!
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Interesting thread. The 'Kiwi" moniker attracted my attention.
I am thinking along the lines of "why re-invent the wheel"?
Some 10 years or so ago a British marine engineering company connected to the off-shore cigar racing boats gave a couple of new interns a 105 and told them to perfect it, to see what they were made of, - the interns not the motor.
Comments of ' out of balance', built like a tank, crude casting etc come to mind.
Anyway the 105 was skimmed, polished, tuned, ( spun at 50,000 rpm etc ) to the highest degree imaginable.
All components original and when tank tested , the 5 hp was developing 15 hp.
The only problem was the crown wheel could not take the extra load /speed, and overheated and shattered.
A higher grade wheel was machined to overcome the problem, the only non-standard part.
Because of the thinned walls etc, it was estimated that the motor would run for approximately 15 hours before exploding.
Shipped to God's own and put on a 16' Tinny for testing.
At 35 knots the driver chickened out as the boat started to do a 'Bluebird".
His dream of breaking all Waikato race records went down the gurgler.
Unfortunately a garage fire destroyed the motor before it could be fully put through its paces.
So, perhaps you do not have the equipment to spin out the parts at 50k,- but a good balancing of original pieces might be the ticket and not installing alternate parts?

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Re: Kiwi's Thinking Outside The Box

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Not sure what a 105 is, don't think it's a seagull.
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