Saving Old Seagulls

Just in case I get all authentic or see one on ebay etc what is the correct carb for my 1947 AD ?

Your local mower place should have one. AMAL. How do you know date of manufacture of your AD?



Note: the tap is not original, but like it, so will leave well alone. Will get rid of filter and put a copper line back on (one day!).

Hugo.

the date is stamped into the gearbox casing twice ...one above the other each side of the gasket line towards the top ..is that unusual ....

Is there an easy way to put photos on this site without having your own web whatever ...antiquated software ..other sites use PHP and its easy

Book into photobucket. http://photobucket.com Download your photo into your photobucket album and then copy the photo's IMG Code and paste into text here. Easy once you have it set up.

On the gear box? Never seen that before.

Hugo

antiquated software

Anything else you want to criticise?

I commend THIS SEAGULL FORUM to you.

Is there an easy way to put photos on this site without having your own web whatever ...antiquated software ..other sites use PHP and its easy

This is in fact a forum running on phpBB.

Have a look at www.kia-forums.com for php at its best and latest version ...to put a photo on you just send it to there server.
Remembering of course it is free solftware but you have to provide the server capacity which is where the expense is involved.

Have a look at www.kia-forums.com for php at its best and latest version ...to put a photo on you just send it to there server

Yes, very nice.

Can't really get my head round it, but I'm sure the Kia forum with its 34,980 registered members and its advertising through Google and a host of official sponsors can afford the time and resources to keep their forum at the cutting edge.

This forum, however, with its refreshing absence of sponsors and its registered membership of some 622 users, doesn't. Nobody gets paid, nobody has a contract, we're all volunteers, and the fact we have a slightly clonky way of posting photos does, in a charming way, reflect the subject matter that binds us into a community.

Your 1947 AD based motor, for example, doesn't have electric start, electronic ignition, a reverse gearbox, a cowl, nor does it run on 100:1 mix. It isn't silent, it will drip oil, it is not the most environmentally friendly in operation (although people like me have issues with that often made claim), yet thousands of them are in daily use with happy and confident owners, like the good folks here.

The vast majority of those 622 good folks accept the site's single limitation, and offer free advice, both on the motors themselves and the operation of the site. I assume that they join me in welcoming a site that isn't dripping with commerciality and invitations to buy all manner of glossy looking tat.

I have in the past offered to post pictures for members who are having difficulty, and if you're having problems feel free to PM me and I'll do it for you, too.

charlesp wrote:

This is in fact a forum running on phpBB.

Haven't come across it before. Is that one of the new synthetic 2 stroke oils?

yup, you got it Hugh ...

Poly-hydrated-phenol barbiturates ....if it doesn't seem to do much for the engine, well, guess it can always be sniffed

Blimey, seagulls on drugs, thats a worry. A sequel to 'Day of the Triffids'. Correct era too.

Hugo

Probably the most significant factor is that if photos are to be loaded up to the forum direct the servers have to be large enough to hold them all.

As it is no server space is need because they are all stored at Photobucket or similar.

I don't know about the Kia forum but usually there is a limit on photo size but using Photobucket you are only limited to the max size that P'bucket accepts. 1024 x 768 for the free accounts

John Wyndham - great. I used to just love his books. The films were a pale imitation.

Thank you for reminding me!