Saving Old Seagulls

rosbullterier wrote:At least all the techno mumble about Seagulls can be useful to us sad perverts. I have never seen, even reading back through all the old copy, such a load of unintelligible meaningless twaffle as above.

The engines certainly appear far superior to the Seagull, as the others in Collectors collection and I appreciate them. But hang on - my learning curve for the bloody Seagull has been steep over the last two years, and Anzani's etc are a bit beyond the remit!

Kindly start you own site before my eyes swim much more . . .

I like outboards and have made up a small collection of british and other outboards and if i wouldn't have brought some of my outboards they would have gone as scrap and i would like to keep some of our british history for myself, Ok this is the SOS site, and if some one has information on an outboard, i would like to find out what i can as a lot of information about most vintage outboards are hard to come by or even lost.
I will apologise to John for mentioning other outboards in his site and will endeavor to keep my posts to seagulls only.

England is still a free country, I see no reason why you shouldn't post question about anything that you thing will interest our readers.

I agree, if it is smelly old outboard than it must be OK.

As with lots on niche forums people need to encourage posting, not stop people from posting. This forums globally this has very few people who look at it!

H-A

Good, now thats settled whatsa Anzani smell like then?

Ahh that's easy
massively overcooked italian fish and chips .....

OK ...I'll get my coat ....

Had one of your chaps over here recently, drove a diesel campervan running on recycled fish and chip oil around oz. I was rather impressed.

there you go Hugo ...

it was obviously powered by....wait for it....

an Aus-arnie

You're a worry Neal..... those roos in your top paddock are running amok!

I'm tempted to ask why ITALIAN fish and chips but I know I'll only regret it!

There's quite a few diesels running on chip fat round here now Hugz, nothing to do with being green, more to do with the price of diesel. Wish it would work for a seagull too!

Mind you I did see a TV program a little while ago that ran a sit on lawn mower on lard, just heated it up till it melted and away it went! soon stopped when it cooled down tho.

Oh come on Waggles ...
Signore Anzani....developer of the epomymous engine ...was of Italian background ?

Shouldn't be too hard to convert to alcohol.... bucket of old fruit, sugar, yeast etc and a pressure cooker and thermometer and copper pipe. Adjust carby. http://www.wovoca.com/survival-making-alcohol.htm

I know we shouldn't generalise about other countries,

I'm reading a post about bio fuels & saving the planet & the aussie's are reading the same post about converting chip oil into fosters.

I'm sitting here nursing a stuffed back (it's that bad I could hardly stagger to the bottle shop) after lifting the EFNR (geez they are heavy) outa the test bin and realised that a seagull could easily be turned into a still. Need to remove conrod and piston. Use block/crankcase as pressure vessel. Carby port for thermometer and mix (how apt) , plate over exhaust port, coil pipe welded into plate. Cut drive shaft. Prop in moving water pumping water into exhaust tube as condenser and hey presto alcohol outa exhaust.You get the gist!

So if you collect the distilate from the exhaust, pump it up to the carb of a motor sitting beside it, drip feed corn oil, you could power your boat on potato peelings, barley & sugar.
Oh you need a fermeter as well.
Nice to see your green credentials coming through, no more gas guzzleing outboards in Botany Bay.

For just one moment there Charles I thought you were on to something big...

...all that stuff about take the distillate, I reckoned this was going to feed back into the carburettor, and hey you've got PERPETUAL MOTION!

Sadly, a little work to do yet.