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billschaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 321
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 07:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How about we post some pictures of motors that have spent time taking a well deserved nap under water. I will start it off with a nice Dunn, from the Tennessee River.



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billschaller
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Post Number: 322
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 07:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This one was pulled out of a lake in Minnesota, then the carb was cut off and sold, and I got what was left.





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billschaller
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Post Number: 323
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 07:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is another one pulled from a Minnesota lake. The owners would not tell me which one, they had seen a few motors underwater, and planned on bringing up a few more.



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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 2349
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 12:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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This one was salvaged out of Bear Creek Swamp in Northern Florida 2004.
Wood is cypress planks from the hull that we calculated to be about 18-19 feet long.

http://www.oldmarineengine.com/discus/messages/1/4460.html#POST7121

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scott_n
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Post Number: 145
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 10:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

this gray we still plan to get running found in New Way CT.


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solarrog
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Username: solarrog

Post Number: 415
Registered: 03-2002


Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 10:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

find any dinosaur bones. looks like it sat in a bog till you found it. Thanks everyone for posting these pictures. It sure would be exciting to find one like this.
Rog
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johnny
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Username: johnny

Post Number: 264
Registered: 03-2006


Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wow! those engines really look rough!

Now can we see the photos of what they look like after restoration?
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drdetroit
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Username: drdetroit

Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 06:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What is the success rate of getting one of these crusty engines back to running condition? Im sure it would be a lot of work.
Billschaller's don't look like it has left the barn, That's amazing
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johnny
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Post Number: 265
Registered: 03-2006


Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 06:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think Richard restored his Gray, but I do not know if he has it running.

The engine that Bill posted looked beyond restoration.
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 2350
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 08:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Several yrs ago I was in Southern Louisiana at an engine show talking To Bob Legnon about this very subject the possibilities of reconditioning old marine engs that have been submerged in the Bayous, river banks and swamps, he said that they had found several "Leverwrights" in the area over the years, Well i hadn't heard of those engs so I asked, He said they weren't of a particular mfgr or brand but after looking at the amount of deterioration "You Just Leave Her Right There" !

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gregoryan
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Username: gregoryan

Post Number: 61
Registered: 09-2004


Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 04:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't think it is a compulsory requirement to restore these fossils from the bottom of the ocean, perhaps a consideration.
As a paleontologist's urge to bring home real dinosaur bones is not necessarily to assemble the whole frame, but as items of great interest. I have fossilized engines at home that have no hope of being any more than iron ore, but are not destined for the tip.
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scott_n
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Post Number: 146
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 08:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The one we got came apart easily. After a little soaking oil I only Brok one ring and two bolts I think by being buried in the mud for so long mite have kept the oxygenate out but some relay bad smelling water came out of the lower end. will post pic when we get to it

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