Topic: 1941 Mercury KB-1A carb choke? – Page 3 – Antique Outboard Motor Club,Inc

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February 6, 2023 at 1:51 pm #272426
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February 6, 2023 at 1:56 pm #272430
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KB1-A with stamped aluminum rope plate.

No washer or nut between cast flywheel and

Stamped aluminum rope plate. notice lip or

Edge on flywheel for rope. Rope plate sits

Flush on top of flywheel.
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February 6, 2023 at 2:30 pm #272444
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Fifty20One, It looks like they improved the design on the rope plate
spacer, getting rid of the big tin one like mine has.
Thanks for posting the manual….. nice scans!

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February 6, 2023 at 4:58 pm #272460
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I think that’s earlier. That’s the way my K1 was. I didn’t look under the K1 flywheel but I was thinking later, that I might find an Eisemann under that type of flywheel. The book says the K1 should, in fact, have one. I wonder if that particular KB1A has an Eisemann? Or, like has been said many times, Mercury basically just did what-ever-the-frig they wanted.

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February 6, 2023 at 5:43 pm #272465
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My 1941 Mercury KB-1A

has an Eisemann mag.

I think it may have been

painted at same time

they were painting Navy

motors! Although this

is not a Navy motor as

they never made Navy

singles to small hp. This

is not a re paint as the

decal lines are to crisp

& accurate.
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February 6, 2023 at 9:22 pm #272471
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That’s really a neat factor photo!

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February 6, 2023 at 9:42 pm #272472
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Buccaneer wrote:

That’s really a neat factor photo!

Ya it sure is a nice photo! I wonder if it is from the Iron Fist book? I have a few scans from that book. Do you think that guy with the stetson and a tie is Elmer Kiekhaefer (Carl)? In the back they might be testing motors. They supposedly tested motors in the silo. It was an old dairy farm. Maybe they shipped some poopo with every motor! LOL!

dale

yaya ubetcha….ea!
February 7, 2023 at 9:38 am #272486
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If they tested motors in the silo, it probably had a nice draft to suck
the fumes out of the building!
I see at least four “Big Wigs” there in the photo….. hence, probably
why the photo got snapped in the first place.
Probably investors or the “board of directors”!

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February 7, 2023 at 12:12 pm #272494
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Some pics of Carl and his son Fred.
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