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Bill Schaller
| | Posted on Friday, February 14, 2003 - 09:04 pm: | 
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This is my best engine. and I still own it, too. A picture is good, but if not, a good description will have to do.
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Bill Schaller
| | Posted on Friday, February 14, 2003 - 09:08 pm: |
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OK, if you don't like that Red Wing Motor Company engine, here is my best marine engine.
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andrew
| | Posted on Friday, February 14, 2003 - 10:36 pm: |
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Bill,
How does that green engine fit in the bilge of a boat...? 
The Campbell looks great. There was one for sale in our classifieds a year or two ago... is that the same engine?
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Gerald G iampa
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:28 am: |
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I am a Canadian looking for a small engine for my new constructed lapstrake launch. The vessel is about 20 feet in length and open.
Also I live in Finland but do not know the language. I found a make and break engine. Finnish make and breaks had no name plates, there were over seventy engine manufactures on the fortress island of Helsinki so no one bothered with branding them. And over 50 manufacturers in Turku. Keep in mind Finland was unique politically and therefor these engines were not exported.
At first glance the engine appeared to have had an earlier restoration, closer inspection led me to suspect it was almost never used. Now, from what I can make of the language this engine has had almost no use what-so-ever except as a floor model for demonstrating to purchasers.
There is absolutely no rust, no signs of wear, no damage to the bolts.
Am I crazy to put one of these engines in my boat? I love the engine, remember the sounds of make and breaks in my youth and I loved my trusted Easthope one lunger but it had a coil. The Easthope was a BC built engine which is where I spent most of my boating life.
However I do require reliability for my boating purposes. How difficult are they to start? How difficult to learn. What are they worth?
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Richard Day
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 04:48 pm: |
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Two strokes require a learning curve with the owner. Once you understand their ways they are very reliable and provided many years service. I suggest you read TIPS and live by it. Until you learn the engines unique characteristics you will flood it and not be able to get it to run reliably as you will be too sloppy with the needle valve setting which is the heart of the two stroke. 40:1 fuel mixture. Next to needle valve settings, water pump check valves are the second biggest problem, third being ignition. Nice thing about M/B ignition is its easy to test for a good arc. Hold the breaker closed and drag the coil wire across the insulated post and you should get a nice arc. If you don't try dragging across the engine to see if you get an arc. If you don't you probably have a bad battery or corroded connection. You want about a 9 volt battery. Easy to trouble shoot. Watermen stuck with them long after yatchsmen went to jump spark as M/B was so easy to trouble shoot and they didn't worry about a lot of moisture on the wires.
Read TIPS. It will keep you out of trouble. |
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