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  1. Scott Danforth

    How To Remove This Prop Help Needed

    A welder is your friend to remove the prop lock
  2. Scott Danforth

    How To Remove This Prop Help Needed

    Dude, the OP posted a pic, did you not look?
  3. Scott Danforth

    New to Wake Sports – Looking for Beginner Advice

    see your local watersports retailer that gives lessons and training.
  4. Scott Danforth

    Tools that younger people would not recognize.

    I use tef-gel on stainless bolts. not only will they not seize, they wont stay in the hole and will soon spin out on their own...... 🤣
  5. Scott Danforth

    Windlass Goes Up but not Down

    you will update what accordingly? its not your thread
  6. Scott Danforth

    Windlass Goes Up but not Down

    your windlass has to have a reversing contactor. the switch in your picture will not carry the current, and doesnt have enough contacts to be used in a reversing circuit.
  7. Scott Danforth

    Drain gas tank to tell where empty is.

    I follow both the 1/3 rule and 1.5mpg rule on my boat. down to approx 5/8 of tank and turn around to start heading back assume 1.5 mpg, and at 80 gallons, most distance I can travel is 120 miles (boat gets better economy, and I have gone farther). typical trip is 60-100 miles
  8. Scott Danforth

    Tools that younger people would not recognize.

    isnt there a spoon adjust slot in the back cover? creative use of oil filter, my concern would be oilcanning and tossing your measurement off. did you look up the thread pitch on the filter in a table (you would get a blank stare from most of todays youth for simply opening a catalog)
  9. Scott Danforth

    Artificial Intelligence

    using the + / - doesnt give the results I am looking for. just different than the boolean operators.
  10. Scott Danforth

    Artificial Intelligence

    one example "C4" AND "Dana" AND "36" AND "ring and pinion" NOT "ford" and you get all ford, and none for a Dana 36 changing to +/- and you get a different result where the result should be the same
  11. Scott Danforth

    Tools that younger people would not recognize.

    @dwco5051 , you could have just cut the transom off, and not needed to lift the motor that high since there are a few large chunks missing out of the hull.
  12. Scott Danforth

    Drain gas tank to tell where empty is.

    if its a float/rheostat sender, you simply bend the arm for adjustment if its an ultrasonic sender (used on some new boats), you plug the laptop in and reprogram the sender.
  13. Scott Danforth

    Sam Neil

    I have met a number of musicians most recently the little river band last year. a bunch of packer players, most notably had a 45 minute conversation with Ray Nitschke when I was seated next to him on a flight to Green Bay back in the mid 90's. sat across the aisle from Henry Wrinkler on a...
  14. Scott Danforth

    [SPLASHED] I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    coffee and donuts are a good lure for mechanics.....
  15. Scott Danforth

    Yamaha 50 1985 2-stroke cooling problem

    @cwella Nice cut-n-paste of wrong AI answers when @99yam40 pointed the OP in the right direction. please do not simply take the first post in a thread and paste into an AI search engine, then cut and paste AI answers, as most often times they are incorrect. if you have any questions, feel...
  16. Scott Danforth

    Need help with steering cable.

    How does this pertain to the steering cable the OP needs in 8' long?
  17. Scott Danforth

    Mechanic tricks?

    besides the various sections of pipe and tubes to turn ratchets into free-spinning tools needing repair or extending the length of a breaker bar, I also use two wrenches together to make a longer wrench here are some of the hacks I have done over the years a home made slide hammer for GM...
  18. Scott Danforth

    Building a fishing boat.

    I can only comment on the rules and requirements as that is what governs boat building. As to why they are operating in violation of the rules or why the local LEOs havn't done anything, I cannot answer.
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