[SEL] poster engine in GEM

[jbcast at charter.net]

Mystic Seaport Museum chose my engine as it's poster engine this year. It's on page 36 of the new GEM. This engine is a Fisherman marine engine, 6hp, 6oolbs, sideshaft,  reversible, 4cycle engine. It was actually manufactured by Domestic. The engine was buried in the mud by the flood of 1973, remained there for over 20 years when someone rembered it, dug it up, gave it to a friend  and it was passed on to me. All of the steel parts had to be remanufactured, the castings were badly pitted, I filled them in a little to make it respectable. The piston and rod were missing, used a F-M rod, bored the cylinder .125 over to 5 1/8" and made a piston. I had to put seats and guides in the head, welded extensions on auto valves and threaded them. The biggest challenge was making the helical gear for the sideshaft, my first attempt at gearmaking. It's a crowd pleaser, people aren't used to seeing a 4 cycle running either way. I started an article for GEM, but I'm not as fast as Arnie with my reports.
J.B. Castagnos
Belle Rose, LA