Manual Needed

[ken-w]

Looking for a Manual for a 1932-33 Evinrude Fisherman 4hp model 413.

[mercuryman]

http://precisionservoutboard.com/

This site sell old motor manuals

[ken-w]

Thanks, just what the doctor ordered.

[johnyrude200]

If you can be patient for another month or two, I intend to launch a free website with parts manuals from 1942-1982 OMC related, and anything else I can get scanned from my collection or from those of donors. I would like to see owners manuals for free because it represents a way to keep the general consumer safer, and less liable due to ignorance, too.

The website will be based on donations, but is free on principle.

[bob-d]

Johnyrude I have some manuals / parts lists that I could scan and send to you when you get the site up and running.
It would be great if everyone from the club donated whatever they had, and it was in one central location, along with Garry’s great collection.
Bob D

[johnyrude200]

Not everyone is in support of such a website (found this out the hard way), but if it’s free, I’m guessing people are skeptical that it is some sort of ruse. But we do still live in a fairly free country, so I’ll just do it on my own and let people make their own conclusions. Having access to parts diagrams and owner’s manuals, and whatever technical service bulletins for obscure information, can only help keep the obsolete stuff alive and not forgotten.

I’ll P.M. you so we can stay in touch because it’s a slow process getting things scanned. The website is the simple part.

The main feature I will be offering is the ability to search part numbers and cross reference usage of common P/N across motors while also identifying what motor that part number belongs to. I don’t know of any website that offers this right now; so when you’re trying to figure out what goes where, generally you’ll search for the P/N and it will just show a parts schematic, but not all the motors that part can be used with. My site will allow for this important reference feature.

Granted, there are the ‘what used where’ booklets, but those are limited in how much they help, and the ones that you download are in such low quality scans that you can’t use OCR (optical character recognition) to do what I’m talking about. So you’re stuck going through hundreds of pages in a time-consuming, tedious process to figure things out. Doesn’t take long for folks to give up on that.

Plus when you use OCR, you reduce file size by as much as 75%, making it WAY faster to view things and find what you need. I bookmarked and used OCR on the 10th edition johnson service manual (circa early 60’s) back on the old blueboards last year, and that reduced the file size from nearly 600mb to about 160mb, plus folks could/can now just thumb through the document in a couple of clicks instead of scrolling through the whole 600-page document for hours and hours on end searching for what they need.

Hard copy is nice, but electronic preserves these valuable pieces of our history indefinitely! Thanks to T2stroke for his donations…too!

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