Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt

Yeah it is a bordering on Rube Goldberg - Buck Rodgers. If you only isolate
that one design feature. But taken as a whole the 17 was an amazing break
through design.

But when OMC designed the 17 the were really stretching the envelope in all
areas. Perhaps they were inspired by Dorsett Marine, who contracted with the
famous industrial designer, Raymond Loewy. Jump over to fiberglassics.com
and check them out. Dorsett had an innovative windshield design that tilted
manually. From a practical standpoint there are areas of the country where
allowing in some air is helpful. While not very graceful, it also allows
someone (small kid maybe?) to scamper into the boat from the bow, as in when
you back down the ramp and the boat starts floating slowly away with no line
attached.

Or maybe after they designed that wonderful aluminum frame and safety glass
windshield (years ahead of the flimsy plexiglass windshilelds commonly seen
in the late fifties-early sixties) because they just wanted a WOW-UH-AH
factor to show off at boat shows? Who knows?

The Deluxe 17 really did bring turn-key automotive t ype technolgy to family
recreational boating. Everything was already there, like it had been planned
from the beginning! Did they over do it? You be the judge. When you think
about the whole line of OMC boats had pretty nifty windshields, but they did
get more conventional as time went on.

Lee Shuster

----- Original Message -----
From: "jd" <jdood@...>
To: "Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's"
<omc-boats@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt

> i've never quite got the logic behind this tilting windshield idea.
> isn't that the point of a windshield, so wind doesn't hit you in the
> face? and even without it tilted, a boat is basically a convertible
> car. plenty of breeze blowing you in the face anyway. maybe i'm
> missing something.
>
> 2 yrs ago i completely disassembled my windsheild's tilt motor, lubed
> it, reassembled - and it still squeaked, jammed up, and blew the
> fuse. haven't tried to tilt it since.
>
>
>
>
> On May 5, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Lee Shuster wrote:
>
>> Here's a photo that shows off the Deluxe 17's cool windshield:
>>
>> http://www.ultimate.com/omc-boats/gallery/lee.shuster/omc17/0.jpg
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omc-boats-bounces@...
>> [mailto:omc-boats-bounces@... ] On Behalf Of Lee Shuster
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:47 AM
>> To: Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's
>> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt
>>
>> Check out the photos of the OMC/Deluxe 17 in the Brochure section of
>> Phil's website.
>>
>> The Safety Glass windshield on the Deluxe 17 and Dual 17 was power
>> operated (hinged at top) to allow for ventilation. This probably
>> inspired the fold-flat (MANUAL) windshield that first appeared on the
>> 14-ft Playboy/Caprice and a year later on the 19-ft'ers.
>>
>> Pretty cool.
>>
>> Lee
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>> [bldfw@...]
>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:22 PM
>> To: omc-boats@...
>> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt
>>
>> Not heard of a windscreen tilt motor option. How's it work?
>>
>> -Bill
>> Dallas, TX
>> 1970 Evinrude Explorer - 155 V6 OMC Sterndrive
>> http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
>>
>>
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>> 1. Re: 1964 OMC Johnson Deluxe - Wiring Diagram? (lks@...)
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>>
>> Jeff, does you Deluxe have the windscreen tilt motor? That's important
>> because I believe there should be a single GREEN 12 ga wire that runs
>> from the ammeter's (+) GEN side and connects to the WINDSHIELD TILT
>> MOTOR Circuit Breaker. This should be a single replaceable wire, not
>> part of any cable assembly. This wire should connect to the Ammeter
>> terminal nearest the centerline of the boat, close to the speedometer,
>> tucked behind the fuse block and the other end to the Windshield Tilt
>> Motor Circuit breaker.
>>
>> The remaining ammeter wire (connects nearest the fuel gage) should be a
>> 14 ga BROWN and it should connect to the IGNITION Switch. It should be
>> bundled into the "main" instrument panel harness assembly that
>> interconnects the tach, fuel gage, ammeter, and Ignition switch.
>>
>> Also, I forgot the DeLuxe dashboard has three small terminal blocks
>> (sometimes called busses), just above the fuel guage and ammeter, The
>> outer two are Positive (+) while the center block is (-) Neg or ground.
>> These are in addition to the Fuse block, which also has a grounding
>> buss.
>>
>> One smart thing OMC did on the DeLUXE that they dropped from later
>> models, they used a resettable circuit breaker on the tilt motor
>> circuit. On most models like my 66 Sportsman they didn't protect it at
>> all, later on (69-up ?) the put in a fusible link in the high current
>> supply line to the tilt relays.
>>
>> Hope this helps.. I'm digging thru my junk lookming for a Deluxe
>> schematic for you. No promises, however.
>>
>> Lee Shuster
>>
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