Unkiemotorhead's Skunkwerkz
Rest here for a moment in my little corner of motorhead insanity :-)
This page is just a collection of photos of the pile of hardware in my "museum", I will add remarks over time for the more interesting elements as I've started to do below. As always, click on any image for a new page, and the on that page click the upper left corner control to get a full screen image.
Probably the most unique motor I have - NOS JOHNSON SEA HORSE 10hp outboard. Yes NEW as in: never run except presumably for testing at the factory. Model #QD19.
This was in the seller's collection for many years.
100% original purchased by the seller brand new in the box... original box was discarded ...motor was first removed from its original box/container maybe around 2010 to display ...52 years in the original box......
The rubber parts appear and act as new.
Sooo it wound up in my home office, as it should. Waaaay better'n a file cabinet as is apparent in the first photo.
Further excursions into the 6 cylinder world
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Found the first year 1962 (I think) merc 1000 locally in surprisingly good shape. Unheard of to find such things out here in the NorCal vintage outboard desert. Found the 1:1 speedmaster lower unit on ebay, and came up with a motor I've been chasing for 60 years! It's a runner! Also came across a 1960 first year (I think) Merc 800 with a frozen lower unit, found a replacement unit off of a 135 locally, so that's going together next.
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Scott 40, from, oh, maybe 1959 or 60 - the facebook wizards haven't been entirely clear, but someone knows. Hidden in a barn forever in NorCal (paint is still shiny on top). Odd obscure thing. Making it run is years off.
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Mark40H assembled from parts layin' around here in inventory, a powerhead from Eric Gunderson, and a genuine 40H gearcase I've had in inventory forever at least.
eBay tiller arm Mark 30 I got a while back because it was such a nice original. Replaced the freeze-cracked gearcase with one from inventory, added electric start which was a pain since I could not find the matching starter gear / flywheel gear and flywheel, so the machine shop saved the day once again. Mk30 really doesn't need electric start because they are so easy to rope, but why not? Wayne has one so I needed one too. Not sure whether to address the poor paint match or not.
350cc KONIG because the 700 was feeling lonely? Clamp system machined by Dohktohr Kahl.
Merc 200 1960. Rebuilt and sold to me by John MacIntosh. I don't do Merc "automatic tranmissions" yet. As should be apparent to you as you surf through this site, I have waaaay too much on my plate already. So I'm delighted to have John do what he can do in his sleep....rebuild autotrans stuff. I might someday. Maybe. Uncle Wayne has all the tooling.
1954 Mercury Mark 20
Unknown rebuilder (not me) but looks like it was done with care. Since I've been a Mark20 fan from waaay back, it seemed appropriate to have this in daBarn.
195x? Mercury Mark 15
Ditto above for the Mark 20 above Unknown rebuilder (not me) but looks like it was done with care. It seemed appropriate to have this in daBarn too.
195x? Mercury Mark 10
I found this in the SF Bay Area on Craig's list. Virtually unused....no paint wear on the leading edge of the prop. Almost NOS.
1959? Mercury Mark 28
Found on eBay sold by an antique furniture store on the east coast. Virtually unused....almost no paint wear on the leading edge of the prop. Nice shine on the paint still.
1956? Mercury Converted 20H
Built by Dr. Kahrl and then sold back to me. Gorgeous piece.
What follows is a gallery of hardware that lives in daBarn. Eventually I'll add some notes for those items of particular interest or significance. For example, I acquired an unmolested gold 20H that I repainted (amateur) that seems fine, a few late 50s Evinrudes that are almost new, spare 20H stuff by the ton, 25ss and 44 powerheads, stacks of B and D quicksilver lower units and parts (lower unit nut here - my specialty), etc. etc.
And what fun would a barn full of old outboard stuff be without piles of racing lower units and parts? Things like the D tailcone nut I made with 0.015" oversize threads to more cleanly fit one of the gearcase builds that had worn tailcone threads (part of my lathe operation training), or D driveshafts that I've made out of Mark25 lower shafts and Mark55 upper shafts. This is but a fraction of the inventory in the barn. Along the way I acquired a NOS complete 55H lower unit, the 45ss and 75H units mentioned elsewhere, and a boatload of B/D units and parts. Some photos have explanations that appear when you click on the photo.
