Saving Old Seagulls

A few more pics:

Looks great, could be "the best in the world".

Not sure about the fuel pipe

H-A

Looks good

He will be after one of those coiled round copper pipes

ive only ever had one and its on my baby one

Know what you mean about the fuel pipe, that one will do for now. Original was clear plastic, but a polished copper one would be nice

Not sure if the early SJMs might have had a nickel plated one?

Great restoration over there!

You have done a great job on this early Forty Minus. Lovely to see them in this condition. The brass finish exhaust tube looks the part.
The tank especially looks truly excellent. I expect that you have learnt a great deal in doing this. If you want to use this new skill, I have tank or two which you could .......!!
My early Minus (SJM35) came with a 10" tiller. What is the length of yours (tiller)? It looks a bit longer - possibly 12"?
My tilting tiller FV had a 10", so it would not be surprising if Seagull continued with that length for a period.
While on the topic of tiller length. I think the usual central tiller FVs are 5". Are FVP longer?
Petrol pipes. My SJM came with a clear plastic pipe. I have no idea if this is correct.
Well done.

Jeremy

Very good and well Restored. They look more a work of art dont they.

Talking of fuel pipes..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/British-Seagu ... 2c6b726c58

Oyster 49 wrote:Talking of fuel pipes..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/British-Seagu ... 2c6b726c58

I have just listed that, I was amazed to see it posted instantly!!!

You may be onto a winner with them
youll have to make villiers type also
you can get the carb nuts/fitings noprobs?

By coincidence I've just ordered a pipe bending tool, to make some SD copper and little 40 nickel pipes. I don't thing I could get the parts for £4.50 though.

Just got to get the end ferrules and nuts.

The Marston register has some fuel pipe ends but no nuts, we can't seem to find hex brass of a suitable size 39/64" to remanufacture some.

It's not cost effective to make them out of round bar.

Let me know what diameter fuel pipe your going to use & I'll see if we have any to suit.

John did ask me to work a price out to remanufacture the copper coolie hats but the cost of the material & the cost for using the press & tooling with the labour, made his sale price close to £25.00, with such a low demand & the lowest number that could be produced for that sort of money being 20+, it would take him nearly 4 years to break even, hence the lack of copper coolie hats on his stock list.

Though it might be possible if enough people were prepared to forward order.

I just did a quick look around some vintage car and motorcycle parts sites, nuts and ferrules can be bought, I will do a bit more digging and obtain some bits to play around with. A good project for a winters evening

Niander101 wrote:You may be onto a winner with them
youll have to make villiers type also
you can get the carb nuts/fitings noprobs?

I 've just started my trip..! I will try to find but I need to know the threads of each one. Could anyone help please?