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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4072
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2018 - 05:01 pm: | 
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Beeson's Marine Directory 1900
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 161
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2018 - 07:43 pm: |
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Wow,
Richard you sure are puttting out a lot of oldies this week.
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4074
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2018 - 02:49 pm: |
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Gives us something to look at here, they are random
ads, what ever I happen to be working with at the time, Dont like logging on here to an empty page !
Jim, the little unknown you posted here a couple of times I have searched it thoroughly through my data base and no Results ( 2083 entries in data base currently)-- your engine is an old and rare one.
Good Stuff
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 162
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2018 - 05:39 pm: |
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Richard,
It's a neat little engine, runs good, and is very unusual with the hump on the back of the cylinder. It had an unknown carburetor on it that I also posted separately back in August. These are my only unknowns currently in my collection. Will give the Smokstak crew a shot.
Thanks again for all you do,
Jim |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4075
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2018 - 08:26 pm: |
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Jim, Repost the carb pics I dont remembering searching in that direction !
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robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 917
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 12:21 pm: |
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One thing that strikes me in looking at these old adverts is just how quickly the technology advanced. From say 1898 to 1928 the changes were huge. If you were running an engine from 1908 in 1928 it probably still ran just fine, but a contemporary metaphor might be running a 386 computer with a 56K dial-up modem today. We look back and from this distance of time it seems like these engines were around forever, but their span in many cases was relatively short. Thanks for posting the adverts Richard; thsse posts don't always get individual recognition, but I'm sure we all enjoy and appreciate seeing them. |
jb_castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 1353
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 04:21 pm: |
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Robert, when showing engines people are amazed that a 100 year old engine is still running. I tell people that they built these early engines to last a 100 years, they didn't realize how soon they would be obsolete. |
