On Apr 20, 12:39*pm, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:





On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

Yep, liked to hear mine idle out of the water!!- Hide quoted text -

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I wish i could find it on the net, but I remember some cycle magazine
having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?