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chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 212
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 07:50 pm: | 
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I have now had a chance to put a few hours on the Adams. It is running well. I also like the Mobil Unirex N3 grease I am using for lubrication of the main bearings.
The black stuff on the transom is after about an hour and a half running.
Cheers!
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narrabay2
Senior Member
Username: narrabay2
Post Number: 245
Registered: 10-2019
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2022 - 09:25 am: |
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Such a beautiful job all the way around. Did you make the rope fenders? Great job minimizing the anachronisms too. |
chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 216
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 - 10:58 am: |
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Thanks Narrabay2.
I went to great lengths to keep the boat as original as possible. Where repairs were required I tried to use original materials, hardware, tools, and techniques.
A couple of anachronisms for example would be the colour white. Gidley literature said they could paint a boat any colour the customer desired, but their standard treatment was three coats of "the best english white lead". Lead being lead based paint. Since that is a no go these days I just used your basic Tremclad. It holds up fine.
Under the seat is the ignition box complete with its original on/off switch. However, everything inside the box is new.
The fenders were made byhttp://www.theknottedline.com
The soles are new. When I made them, on their underside I wrote in sharpie "Replacement component. Not original to boat." I did that to the extent possible with any new build stuff that went into it, and trust me, there wasn't very much. The boat was pretty much complete and intact when I got it.
Cheers! |
chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 218
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 - 05:45 pm: |
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I just scooped this off eBay. It is an ad from a 1916 Almanac. The boat on the bottom of the ad is the same hull design as mine. Finding any info on Gidley's such as this or Adams engines is nearly impossible to come by. I was fortunate, the Adams engine manual is original to the boat and came with it. The ad, will now form part of the dossier of items I have collected to be transferred to the next owner if and when that time arrives. I figure the ad is pretty cool.
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chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 221
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2022 - 06:12 pm: |
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As some of you may know I did a fair amount of work on the engine over this past winter. It would appear to be paying off now. My grin is ear to ear.
Cheers! |
twilkins7594hotmailcom
New member
Username: twilkins7594hotmailcom
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2022
| | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2022 - 07:50 pm: |
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Great job on the restoration. |
chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 229
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2022 - 07:42 pm: |
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If you don't mind watching crappy videos, I don't mind posting them.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CKQE6IPDC_M
Cheers! |
chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 230
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Friday, October 21, 2022 - 06:48 pm: |
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Willis. Not bad for 1915.
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miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 1206
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - 09:01 am: |
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I'd say pretty dang good - I like the kids fast asleep to the thrum of the Adams engine.
It doesn't look like much of the autumn colours have reached you all.
At our place the colours have come and go, and the leaves are pretty well off most trees. |
chris_spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 231
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - 03:03 pm: |
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On 5 March 1936, Spitfire K5054 took off for its maiden flight. At the controls was Captain Joseph 'Mutt' Summers, chief test pilot for Vickers, who is quoted as saying 'Don't touch anything' on landing.
As the year ends I feel like Mutt Summers. The Adams is running perfectly. When I was laying it up for the winter I took a moment to pull the spark plug. It looked exactly as it should.
Note to self. Don't touch anything.
This winter, the amount of engine work required will be entirely preventative. It will simply be a matter of inspecting and lubricating as well as changing the fuel filtre.
Next spring, the hull will get a good inspection and some caulking will be swapped out, and a few paint touchups will be done. Then back into the water it goes.
Easy peasy.
Cheers! |
narrabay2
Senior Member
Username: narrabay2
Post Number: 257
Registered: 10-2019
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - 04:45 pm: |
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excellent Chris |
