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Greetings
to our Atomic 4 customers, we have
compiled the following information that we
hope you find helpful. For a complete listing
of our Atomic 4 parts & services, you may
visit www.moyermarine.com.
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| New life for the Atomic
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If you haven't
visited our web site at moyermarine.com lately,
you may want to do so to catch up on the news
that new aftermarket blocks are now
available for the Atomic 4.
We made this considerable investment in time
and treasure in response to the fact that the
Universal Atomic 4 has been making such a
remarkable comeback in each of the twenty-plus
years that we in MMI have had the pleasure of
supporting it with aftermarket services. This
continuing success is clear testimony, not only
to the fact that the Atomic 4 was so well
designed and manufactured, but to the really
great owner maintenance which is now lavished on
this wonderful old engine.
Over this same period of time, it also became
rather obvious that the engine's usefulness as
the logical auxiliary power plant for the tens
of thousands of 27 to 35 foot sail boats from
the 1960s and 1970s would likely outlive its
three water jacketed castings (head, manifold,
and block). Having brought new heads and
manifolds to the market place quite some years
ago, the introduction of new blocks now gives
us the ability to produce quality rebuilt
engines on into the distant future.
The alloy used in our new blocks is the
ASTM standard traditionally used for engine
blocks, featuring a higher than normal
silicon content in the alloy (along with
a sacrificial zinc) which increases their
resistance to corrosion and damage from
electrolysis in and around marinas with less
than pristine electrical service leading out
to their piers.
In addition to the other product information
that you can read about on our web site, we
thought you might find it interesting that
the blocks are produced completely within
the United States of America. The
patterns and casting equipment, the casting
itself, and the designing of necessary
“fixturing” equipment to mount the rough
castings a large C&C machine so they can
be cost effectively machined, were all
accomplished by small businesses within an
approximate 75 mile radius of each other in
Southeast Pennsylvania. We thought you might
find this bit of background to be in happy
contrast to the media hype these days which
continues to imply that most serious
manufacturing capability has left our shores.
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