B&Q outboard £60 ??!!

[pcatterall]

Nearly bought one, they are made by Homelight who made a 55hp 4 stroke which I used in Nigeria many years ago.
Then I realised it was a strimmer!! Then I thought if I could fit a prop it would be an outboard !! How much power from a 25 cc engine??.... Well... it looked nice!!

 

[JKay]

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cheers Joe

 

[Guest]

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Nearly bought one, they are made by Homelight who made a 55hp 4 stroke which I used in Nigeria many years ago.
Then I realised it was a strimmer!! Then I thought if I could fit a prop it would be an outboard !! How much power from a 25 cc engine??.... Well... it looked nice!!

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Others may laugh .... but you are not first to look at a strimmer as a possible power plant for a prop.

Also as a generator power plant as well ....

 

[JKay]

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cheers Joe

 

[oldharry]

Make the prop detachable and when you get to the boat use the strimmer to clean the 'grass' off the hull...?

 

[Swanrad2]

Remember seeing an 'outboard' on an Amazon river boat that looked exactly like a strimmer with a long thin felxable leg, dipped in and out of the water to steer and avoid logs and stuff....

 

[gag]

you used to get outboards for canoes that are strimmers with props like a small version of those "longtail" Thai car engined boats with long propshafts.

 

[MASH]

25cc should give you a bit under 2Hp I'd have thought. Pretty useful in a small boat, but RPM might be too high for a prop.

 

[graham]

I remember a guy in Ireland posted on here about a strimmer conversion. Apparently amid clouds of smoke screaming engine and spray he accelerated eventually up to about 1 knot /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[doug748]

Early (60s / 70s) Ocean outboards had a straight leg which did away the need for a gearbox. A bloke in PBO "powered" his cat with a modified brushcutter (bout 15 years ago). Nothing new under the sun, eh.

 

[Swanrad2]

I've got a rusty cement mixer with a petty engine and I never intend to mix any cement ever again 'cause I'm not very good at it, what do you reckon the chances of converting that are? Slower rev's,anyway,

 

[tobble]

I reckon a robin reliant could be converted into a serviceable... car...

 

[Evadne]

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I remember a guy in Ireland posted on here about a strimmer conversion. Apparently amid clouds of smoke screaming engine and spray he accelerated eventually up to about 1 knot

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But he did admit he'd have gone faster rif he's fitted a propeller.
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[pcatterall]

Appologies to the 1001 people who looked at this post in anticipation of a b&q bargain. It was semi serious but I guess that the need for some gearing would be a problem.
regards