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  1. dwco5051

    Boat identification help needed!

    Same goes for that windshield if the frame work is good. A friend of mine looked for a while to find one for a similar boat that was his dads and he restored.
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    Olympics

    Not planning on it this time around. I used to only watch the hockey and figure skating anyway .
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    Boat identification help needed!

    Late 60's or pre 1972 with no antique, classic, or collectors value. Hundreds of now out of business makers made similar boats in this time frame. Just trying to get it all registered without a paperwork trail could be just as difficult as restoring it would be. If it was a rusted out 1969...
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    Need a Winter Project.

    My mother had a 65 hardtop. Bought it new, always garaged,run hard. I told her I wanted it when she was ready to get rid of it. Go forward 20 some years and she called and said she sold the GTO. Said she was tired of every time she would stop for gas somewhere young guys would try to buy it...
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    Trim wiring problems

    Here is a start to look at and get and idea of what you need;
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    Replacing Gas engine with electric motor

    It takes a lot less power to keep a car at cruising speed on level ground than it takes for a boat. A planing boat at cruising speed is like driving up Pike's Peak. Electric azimuthing propulsion pods for displacement hulls will come first I think for displacement hulls until a big...
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    Replacing Gas engine with electric motor

    150kw = 200hp is close to your existing gas engine.
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    Boat Ride to the Location Francis Scott Key Wrote The Star Spangled Banner

    Interesting history of the buoy; https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/star-spangled-buoy-marks-national-anthems-birthplace/
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    Anchor light wiring

    You didn't say how old the boat is but here is a diagram for how a boat with a 2 bulb 3 wire masthead light was wired years ago before diodes. https://www.seachoice.com/pdf/05991_MASTHEAD%20&%20ALL-ROUND%20WHITE%20LIGHT.pdf
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    Need Electrical help

    Just reread you answer about no ceiling box. You will have to install a junction box to support the socket and enclose the wire connections. Without knowing details about your garage ceiling's construction I can't tell you exactly how to do it as there are several methods that come to mind.
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    Need Electrical help

    I had two electricians who worked for me and one was my expert on code and since I retired 19 years ago so to the best of my knowledge the sockets do not have to be grounded (bonded) since there are no exposed conductive parts. The ground wires have to be continuous so they will have to be...
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    Need Electrical help

    Are you are installing a ceramic/plastic fixture that has one standard socket for a screw in bulb to accept a multi-lamp LED onto a standard ceiling box? Similar to this;
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    Random

    Captured is the word they used to not upset the squeamish . They were on their way to a quarantine facility which is standard practice for imported animals. I would love to hear the theories being bantered around in the local bars in that part of the state. People in that county still think...
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    charging not working on Merc 850 1974

    When you are reading the resistance of the stator you are just measuring a long length of copper wire. Depending on the accuracy of your meter and the temperature of the stator it will vary so it seems to be withing specs. Like raceone said those old mercs are good motors but known for brittle...
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    Freezer door not freezing

    Might just be the defrost timer if you are lucky. Don't know how long it was off but the evaporator coils could be completely iced up. Also bad fan motor as someone also said. Bad drain or coil heaters. My side by side went haywire on me out of warranty and I had to replace a circuit board...
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    HULL REPAIR QUESTION

    Have to agree. This might be a diamond in the rough but would require really checking to see what is there. It looks like it belonged to a serious flats fisherman with poor navigational skills. As far as the motor I know quite a few dedicated anglers who will keep up on engine maintenance but...
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    Ice Fish

    I'll go with you providing you auger the holes through the 6 feet of sea ice. By the time you get the second hole dug I will already have my limit.
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    I showed the picture to the admiral and she did not take it well. She said there are 7 bays there and you already have 6 now. Then she informed me that since even with six we have 3 pickups, 4 trailers, one boat on a trailer, and a skid steer sitting out in the weather perhaps a giant yardsale...
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    Random

    How many on here would consider this the ideal house? If I just could talk my wife into it.
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