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  1. dingbat

    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    Occurs when a motor shorts thru the windings. I went to the boat one night to the red light on the bilge pump switch just barely glowing. Pump armature locked up. Ultimately the culprit was water in the bilge that froze, actuating the float switch. With no water to cool it, the motor burned...
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    Spent my entire career manufacturing, designing and supporting industrial measurement instrumentation. Have this conversation with customers almost on a daily basis with the wide scale implementation of ISO/IEC 17025 Quality System related to measurements. Your confusing accuracy with...
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    Insurance

    Asked my agent about the boat when I renewed our homeowners and upped our umbrella last fall. Told me it would be a waste of time and effort… My policy has a $20k agreed hull value, $7k rider for equipment, $500 in towing, $75k spill coverage along with the same $30k/$60k/$15k liability as my...
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    Takes on water over the transom while loading and unloading

    Having a hard time envisioning a scenario where the rear of the boat, untethered from the trailer, would sink below the water line while backing a bunk trailer in the water. Boat should float as soon as you clear draft depth. Is the winch cable taunt while backing into the water
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    Insurance

    Some insurance companies will add a boat to your homeowners as a rider, but an umbrella policy is primarily setup to protect your Net Worth from excess insurance liabilities should something happen. It’s been my experience that a 3rd party stand alone insurer’s policy is considerable less...
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    There is no difference in the “accuracy” between a $150 unit and a $4,000 unit. Your Striker will give the same depth as either one of my high end units. The difference is the sensitivity, and it’s a combination of the quality of the transducer, the signal processing and the resolution of the...
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    Insurance

    Are you sure about that? Our umbrella is only an extension to our primary insurance policy coverage. It does not provide stand alone coverage.
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    200 Mercury EFI - Interesting Situation

    Simply could have replaced a piston or rod. If your truly interested, pull the heads and take a look. It’s water under the bridge at this point. it’s yours now. You bought it, run it.
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    Well, here is your cable…..it’s a Lowrance power only cable. Now you need is a transducer. Guessing it was removed with the unit since you can’t find one Compatible with Lowrance HDS, Elite Ti, Elite, and Hook displays...
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    Nothing wrong per se, just be aware that electricity takes the route of least resistance. That’s what ohm’s law explains in the triangle I posted above. If a wire increases in resistance, electricity can/will find a different path to close the circuit, possibly overloading another circuit...
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    What do you Recommend for Beautifying a Teak Swimstep?

    Teak went out of vogue back around the turn of the century. Too much work to maintain coupled with conservation concerns pretty much sealed its fate. Replaced by starboard (HDPE) for the most part that requires little to no maintenance at all.
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    No way to identify the unit just from the “style” of the connector. You would need the pin-outs to have even a remote chance. Even if you could even identify the unit, there is no way to determine if the transducer is operational without buying a finding and buying a unit to test. Do...
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    A switch is typically a pass-thru. Power goes thru the switch, ground is run directly to the load
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    Pressed-in Zerk grease fittings

    Pull one out = replace Clogged= remove and or replace
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    Today's Water Rescue ...

    https://www.rd.com/article/emergency-sos-iphone/#:~:text=iPhone%208%20and%20later%20models,emergency%20services%20with%20either%20command.
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    Insurance

    You would probably be further ahead to just the buy a new SEI LU out of pocket.
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    Lower gear oil drain plug seal for Johnson outboard

    Been wrenching for way too long for that.....torqued the head bolts on the New Holland (diesel) a couple of weeks ago to within 3 inch pounds by feel.....lol
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    No Rocket science here, although we have two in the family. Basic electronics theory......Air, Fuel and Spark in internal combustion motors
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    Just keeps going right

    18’ Kenner CC is an outboard
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    We do a lot of automation upgrades. A lot of the old stuff still out there, mainly because nobody knows how it works anymore. Had a customer a while back asking us to integrate with his GEM80
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