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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 464
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 08:29 pm: | 
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There is a really nice 2hp, 4 cycle, Regal inboard marine engine on eBay. The eBay number is 400189391534. If I wasn't trying very, very, hard to stick to Maine engines only, I would bid on this one. |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1304
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2011 - 08:23 am: |
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Well you need to get bidding then as it is marine. They run nice. What the heck was it sprayed with? |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 466
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2011 - 09:56 am: |
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Maine not marine.
Looks like cooking oil doesn't it! |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 404
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 06:19 pm: |
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Methinks that's the new trend: save the original paint if you can. Linseed oil seems to be the coating of choice. |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 407
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 08:49 am: |
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There is a big trend in flywheel engine collecting, that it is only original once, so leave it that way. If there is some original paint left, save it. This has a couple of good things going for it, one you don't have to be as worried about oil and grease messing up the new paint, and also, it is a much easier restoration. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2564
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 06:36 am: |
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Patina to some, Grunge to others. I find myself at shows etc by passing the shiny ones and taking a look at the originals much more often !
This old Universal WM Fisherman has been sitting in its shipping crate for several yrs and low on my priority list to do anything to , when I first saw the engine I thought that someone had bolted one of our southern Alligators to the intake manifold but with a closer look I determined it was really a Carburetor ?
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1305
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 08:39 am: |
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There is a little difference between the Regal and the Fisherman. |
