Reply To: 1939 Elto Handitwin

[olcah]

Looked over the piston groove by rotating the rings around and looking for any sort of ring locator and see none. Rings have plain square ends. In 1961 my Dad replaced rings in our 1947 Sportwin. I kept the motor and the old rings. From the parts list for these two motors these old rings are the same part number as the 1939 Handitwin, 101267 (on the parts envelope from 1961 too, Doc Chauvin, Worcester Mass.). The old rings are also plain square ends.
Does the lack of ring locators agree with what others have seen working on these small 30s and 40s Evinrudes?