Corded kill switch for a Seagull

[VicS]

Isn't it also terribly important that you have the engine at TDC, or possibly BDC, while doing this? I'd check my manual, but it's in the car and I have a cold.

BDC but seems to apply to using a puller on later versions . http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/faq2.html#puller

Full instructions are in the manual ..... Tranona knows what it says... he wrote the original manual back in 1931.

 

[ghostlymoron]

Full instructions are in the manual ..... Tranona knows what it says... he wrote the original manual back in 1931.

Is tranona really 103 years old?

 

[VicS]

Is tranona really 103 years old?

You know what they say, "Old sailors never die ............. they go on forever like Seagull outboards."

 

[dartmoor]

Don't understand why you would bother doing this. The seagull design is that you set the idle speed at about 1/4 throttle - so that to cut the engine you just push the throttle back all the way. And bingo, the engine cuts straight away. What could be simpler? Not much to go wrong with that either.

 

[VicS]

Don't understand why you would bother doing this. The seagull design is that you set the idle speed at about 1/4 throttle - so that to cut the engine you just push the throttle back all the way. And bingo, the engine cuts straight away. What could be simpler? Not much to go wrong with that either.

I think the OP was think of a safety lanyard type of kill switch, not merely a stop button.

Anyway if you really get to grips with the throttle adjustment you can set it up so that it idles at minimum throttle control setting but stops when you lower the tiller.

 

[dartmoor]

I think the OP was think of a safety lanyard type of kill switch, not merely a stop button.

Anyway if you really get to grips with the throttle adjustment you can set it up so that it idles at minimum throttle control setting but stops when you lower the tiller.

Ah, yes, sorry - I missed that point.
But to make a seagull "safe" you need to cover the flywheel (or buy a late one). Other hazards include thin alloy exhaust - ouch if you touch it.

 

[Hydrozoan]

I think the OP was think of a safety lanyard type of kill switch, not merely a stop button.

Anyway if you really get to grips with the throttle adjustment you can set it up so that it idles at minimum throttle control setting but stops when you lower the tiller.

Yes, that is my intention.

Indeed - but was it an intended feature or an accidental consequence of the design, I have wondered?

 

[VicS]

Yes, that is my intention.

Indeed - but was it an intended feature or an accidental consequence of the design, I have wondered?

The latter I should think