My last adventure with it was down a river so shallow that it broke all the
spare shear pins I had and we cannibalized the tines of a camping fork. A
fork tine was in the motor 45 years later when I recently cleaned up the
carburetor--literally a cork with a tapered brass metering needle stuck
through it--and started it as you see in the video. I am ready for spring
to get here and take it out on some rivers on the canoe, which is why I
made the mount. I like the fact that the gas tank is integral to the motor
and that you could field strip it with a handful of tools and eyeball the
points gap and it will run just fine.

We sold off some mid-late fifties motors when my dad died, but they were so
"advanced" in design and complexity that nobody wanted to mess with them.
The little Elto in the picture doesn't even have a clutch! More my speed.

Jim

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:

> My dad had an Evinrude just like that, plus a couple of not-much-newer
> Johnsons (5HP and 25HP).  We sold it to a collector after he died. and the
> two Johnson motors went with the boat.
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 6, 2013 11:55 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
> wrote:
>
> Jim sent me some pics of some interesting things:
>
> 1. trench art - lighter
> 2. folding lantern
> 3. motor mount for canoe
> 3. �37 evinrude outboard
>
>
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/felder-industries-lighter-lantern-canoe-motor-mount-37-evinrude/
>
>
> Oh and I updated the post about my motor mount with a pic of mount
> installed (at bottom of post)
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/outboard-motor-mount-for-canoe/
>
>
> alistair
>