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Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 208
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 08:48 pm: | 
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Here is another all brass/bronze carburetor. It was sold to me as a Holly but I'm not so sure. If it is a Holly, it's an early one. The only mark on it is a stamped 5 digit serial number. Any guesses?
I wish the photos were larger. I have never had any trouble resizing them in the past but something isn't working quite right.
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Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 209
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 04:56 pm: |
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Can someone steer me to a Holly expert? |
Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 216
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 10:28 pm: |
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Consensus is that it is a Holly. Even better, here is a photo of a Hartford ad from the March 1907 issue of Rudder and a blowup of the carburetor on that engine. No doubt about what Hartford used for carburetors in 1907. No so much as a hairs difference between the engraving and this carburetor. Wish the carburetor was consistent with my c.1925 Hartford but it would look out of place.
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Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 217
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 10:31 pm: |
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Anybody have a clue why the photos in my posts come out so small after I resize them? I never had that problem in the past. |
miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 305
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 01:06 pm: |
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One of the things you might check is the scale of the picture.Your re-sizing software should have a SCALE function somewhere - maybe in a drop-down menu.
I find that it is also useful to check the size of the file before I post it . IF the file size is, say 16 kB, then I know it is going to be a small one. I strive to get the size just a hair under the limit of the web site ( 100 kB, I think)
I am also careful to choose the resolution when I am taking the pictures, knowing that I post some of them. Having a high reolution picture ( 8 mpixel) which you then scale downwards doesn't result in a good quality picture.
I usually use a 1 or 2 mpixel size, that way I don't have to scale sown as much to get under the 100 kB limit.
It's a bit of a fussy process, but I choose to take the extra effort including croping because the pictures provide so much of the info about these old engines. Plus when some one copies them for their ow use, they end up with a good result.
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John Archibald
Member
Username: john_archibald
Post Number: 30
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 03:11 pm: |
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Miro,
Is that your dory? It looks like a dory anyhow. Is it housing an Atlantic or an Acadia per chance???
You guys may wish to visit: www.irfanview.com
It's a free image viewer that lets you re-size, etc. Don't think it has spy ware onboard, but you'll have to check that yourselves. I use it all the time and have been for about 5 years. It opens darn near anything.
Archibald
Northfield, Minnesota
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miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 307
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 10:11 pm: |
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Archie, the boat is Emily - a DisPro - 1926 and practically all original except for the ribs and some of the planks..
It has a 3 HP DisPro copper jacket engine. It was restored in 1978.
The boat is 16 ft long and glides through the water with ease.
If you look on the back of the Greatest little Motor Boat Afloat, there are 12 pictures - 6 of them are of Emily. Emily is the only DisPro in the recent boat on wooden boats Wood and Glory.
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John Archibald
Advanced Member
Username: john_archibald
Post Number: 32
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 11:28 pm: |
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Miro,
Ah yes, a DisPro. I've seen the engines and the U-joint scheme before. What threw me in the small image by your name was the aft seat. I thought that was the stern piece of a dory.
Beautiful boat.
Archibald
Northfield, Minnesota
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