Saving Old Seagulls

Yep, same as i did.
Dead easy to do, and costs nothing but a few minutes of your time.
And the best bit, it works like a charm, every time.
You could probably do the same with a length of old car brake pipe of suitable diameter. I used an old bit of seagull waterpipe, but whatever works for you.

No more messing about with long nosed pliers. No chance of screwing up those tiny precious threads in the carb body either.

Jon

Or you could buy a Seagull one from John Williams (part no. S102/308), as we really need them to survive for a lot longer, life would be a lot harder if we lost the ability to have access to new Seagull spares!

Now that is a very useful post!

Every British member or guest will have learnt something useful from you, thanks.

Charles is right. Use em or lose em..Its actually a surprise to see what new BS parts are still available.

That's true, i could have bought a new tool.
But i didn't want to, and possibly many hundreds of people out there might not want to either choosing the "heath robinson" approach over expense. (i bet i'm not the only one that thinks this way)
Money is tight for some of us, and i fully understand everyone needs to make a living etc.

BUT, with a little bit of ingenuity there's some things that can be easily overcome with a bit of forethought. Just being honest here.

Jon

As I have clocks, I use a clock key, mind you I have only ever changed a jet once, so I don't think I need to rush out to the pound shop.

I have an ancient clock key too. Works a treat

Without seeing a picture of this jet key I can only guess that what I have had in my tool box for over 40 years is a jet key/spanner to remove the main jets from Stromberg Carbies. This goes back to the street racing days and bunging twin and triple carbies onto Holden engines to burn rubber at a very high rate. This tool has an elongated hole with 2 flat sides and it comes with a short length of rod to put through a hole to tighten or loosen the jet. So if anyone here in Oz is after a jet remover they may well be available on line or at Repco or SCA and all those type of shops. It may be listed as a carby spanner as it also has a wide flat screw driver at the opposite end of the jet spanner.