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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 533
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2012 - 03:16 pm: | 
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Here is an interesting marine engine that just came up on eBay. Item number 150836836248 |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2858
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2012 - 12:01 pm: |
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Cool old engine
Screw in crankshaft bearing flanges ?
Don't recall seeing that before ??
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1506
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2012 - 12:50 pm: |
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Here are the pics from Ebay
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jim_parrott
Advanced Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 47
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 02:52 am: |
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Can anyone identify this engine or know anything about its history?
Jim |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 483
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 09:44 pm: |
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Remarkable very early engine, perhaps a machine shop one-off judging from the shop-made grease cups?
The ignitor has that same one-off or very early production look.
Looks like the end covers screw into the crankcase!
The second eccentric for the ignitor is on a strange angle indeed. Almost makes you wonder if the M&B ignition was a later modification. |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 530
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 05:25 pm: |
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I would like to have seen what he started with, before the restoration. |
jim_parrott
Advanced Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 49
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 10:01 am: |
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The ignitor linkage angle is strange but may be exaggerated by the photo angle and offset of the sliding mechanism from center line. The water pump could possibly be tweaked forward a little bit helping correct this angle as well.
Any thoughts on the proper fuel mixer for this engine?
Jim |
jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 70
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2014 - 05:44 pm: |
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Ernie identified this engine as a Kowalsky while I was at Mystic in August. Identifying features would be pedestal mount, rear exhaust, flywheel, clamp on water pump, strap, and water inlet pipe. All designs similar or identical to the Kowalsky in this thread.
http://www.oldmarineengine.com/discus/messages/3454/118526.html
I did find some other kowalsky's with the same characteristics, but no luck finding any literature for this model. Looking to duplicate the original igniter and find literature to confirm the engines origin. Any thoughts and help would be appreciated.
Jim |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3443
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2015 - 10:39 am: |
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I had not been able to put a name on this engine, the Kowalski engines similar to this one
(He made several different designed engines) all had a vertical split crankcase. Last night I found this 1904-05 ad that calls it a Kowalsky Simplex
This engine has the design features of the above engine !
Ernie named it - Claims his eyes aren't so good anymore They saw this one !! GOOD STUFF
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3444
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2015 - 11:14 am: |
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John Kowalsky History
http://www.veronahistory.org/john-kowalsky.html
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 71
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 06:52 am: |
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Richard,
That is awesome, you found the needle in the haystack again.
I spent days searching John Kowalsky and his engines but never found the Simplex. Any search techniques you want to share so we can help reduce your work load?
Jim |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3447
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 07:35 pm: |
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Jim
That's at least two of us that's thrilled about finding this photo ad !I have been searching three years for this evidence !
I believe that this engine in above photos is the earliest Of the Kowalsky designs and was from 1902-1905.
By 1906 the address and officers of the company changed and this design was on the market.
This is Bob Legnon's nicely redone 1906 design.
Southern Louisiana maybe cornering the Kowalsky
engine line ??
From a lot of years researching 1906 was a critical year in the marine engine industry, photo ads became common and many technical changes took place, searching 1905 and back is still difficult at times especially of the companies that didn't advertise or did so very rarely, they were a bit obscure even in their day !
The engine above in my opinion is an outstanding
example of an Old Marine Engine, the Designer and machinist John Kowalsky was a very talented and ingenious man and rates right up there with the best at the turn of the century !
Good Stuff
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 72
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 07:18 pm: |
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Now that we have this engine identified, I need to make it look like the picture in the ad.
I currently have a Monarch mixer on it with a throttle control, but maybe a Essex might be more appropriate. Any other thoughts of what mixer might be in the ad picture?
The igniter and linkage appears to have been fabricated by a previous owner. It is fantastic workmanship but can not be retarded at all and looks very different from the picture. Hoping to find a similar ignition to copy or will just create my own. An adjustable igniter would be desirable or was fixed timing common on these early engines?
Jim |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3450
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 09, 2015 - 11:13 am: |
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Essex
1905 Hartford
1905 ad
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 73
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2015 - 09:04 am: |
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Looks like a one inch Essex Generator Valve would be a perfect match. Let the search begin. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3454
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2015 - 12:36 pm: |
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I've been looking about 20 years for this Generator Valve for a 1906 Sterling Engine ?
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 74
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2015 - 02:39 pm: |
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Richard,
Just a few weeks back there was an Essex just like I need on eBay, but didn't bid on it because I didn't know I needed it at the time. There was only one other bidder. I'll keep an eye out for your carburetor.
Jim
Jim |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 785
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2015 - 03:20 pm: |
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In Richard Durgee's post with the picture of the 2 cylinder engine, the ad is from Gray and Prior, of Hartford, Conn.
The Gray and Prior company was the company that manufactured the flexible joint in the DisPro device that let the prop come up into the housing and best of all it is still alive today
And if you need a new flex joint , they still manufacture them.
This year, 1915, is the 100th anniversary of the patent date on the DisPro device.
miro |
bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 474
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2015 - 08:18 pm: |
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Richard, My mistake on the Generator valve you require for your Sterling as the generator on my Fay Bowen engine does not have the float chamber. My version is shown on page 200 in Stan Grayson's volume number three affixed to the pictured Fay Bowen engine. |
