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  1. JasonJ

    The Perfect Storm, of poo...

    Ever have one of those periods of time when everything you touch turns to poo? Well, here is how it started. Last week I received my B-day present in the mail, a radio controlled electric helicopter. Always wanted one, the wife bought one. This is not the little toy one, but the kind that...
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    Finally had enough with gas prices, and my butt is sore...

    So I was filling my highly fuel efficient 95 Ford F150 4x4 ex cab with 5.8 and after dropping 40-something bones and glaring at the $3.09 reg (it's now $3.16) a gallon price (the highest it has ever been here), I did some quick math. Even with my frugal and limited driving, I figured my weekly...
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    86-88 King Cobra transom assembly kit

    I have a friend's boat at my house patiently awaiting me to get off of my butt and put the outdrive back on. It has a 5.7 King Cobra setup. Anyway, I am looking for the kit with the bellows and all that, and I keep finding kits for the Cobra, but nothing King Cobra specific. Is the bellows and...
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    Re-foaming speakers

    Last week my old Infinity's foam woofer surrounds finally gave up the ghost when I was watching a dvd. The sound was horrible. I have always been fond of the sound from the older Infinitys and tried to find replacement woofers and found out that there are re-foaming kits for a lot of different...
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    Boat Show

    Man O man, the wife and I went to the boat show Saiturday. Lots of tasty niblets there, hard to keep from buying something. It was the new boat smell, had to be. I was particularly attracted to the aluminum rigs, especially the Duckworths and Hewecrafts. there were also some Starcrafts and...
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    Fellow PNW-erners, wind storm damage?

    Just figured I would ask my Pacific Northwest neighbors how they fared in that storm the other night. I woke up around midnight and thought the world was ending. I suffered no damage, but Spokane lost a lot of power, and trees went down right and left. I saw a fair amount of steel roofs half off...
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    windshield and power tilt/trim-gone full circle...

    So the last time I went out it was 29 degrees. A bit chilly, so I decided to install the original windshields the boat had. I had to get creative considering I had eliminated the entire cap, but it turned out fine. The windshile has ended up a goo two feet back from original, but it looks fine...
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    Trim limit switch-trying to find one

    So I finally got power tilt/trim for my 69 Merc 1250. I bought a complete unit including transom assembly for $280 including shipping from a cool dude in the Seattle area. The unit is from a newer inline six, unsure of the year. Anyway, it works fine except for the switch that limits the...
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    To peer into the face of untold horrors....

    I like to believe I am made of pretty stern stuff, having done over a decade in the military, having been a cop (for a short time anyway), and having been an exterminator up in the attics of houses with hundreds of bats, but then I experience what I experienced today. This whole time I have...
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    Gonna go look at a possible new project this weekend.

    So my never-ending quest for an aluminum boat may come to fruition this weekend. I have a line on a 1968 18 foot Crestliner welded/riveted boat. It has a Mercruiser I/O with a Chevy inline 6. From what I understand, this boat has a normal outdrive with trim/tilt, but the engine is connected...
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    Stupid Ebay again

    So remember that crap I went through with a seller on Ebay last month? You know, the one who would not return my emails for two weeks, then the wife emails to tell me the seller died, and I did not have to do the transaction because the pump for the tilt/trim parts were not right? Something I...
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    Axle price question for my boat trailer

    I will be wanting to pull my boat out of the water in the next week or so. I decided to pull my hubs apart on my trailer and do some preventive maintenance. One splindle has a bad sealing surface, and the hub is shot. The inner bearing race does not seat, it moves around and causes slop. The...
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    North Korea documentary

    My wife brought home a dvd made by the BBC called "State Of Mind". It was a documentary of these little girls who were training for the Mass Games. These Mass Games are all kinds of gymnastics and demonstrations that are done for Kim Jong IL several times a year. There are thousands and...
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    Ebay concern

    I won an item on Ebay yesterday that is going to cost me over $400. My concern is that the seller did not have a Paypal option. He also did not have shipping info. I am cool with that because maybe he needs to get the shipping amount first, he might not be one of those gougers that just charge...
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    Mixed Feelings....Rant...

    So bass fishing is really taking off on my lake. Where you would run into the occasional fellow fisherman, now it is a free-for-all of rudeness. It seems like there is a tournament going on every two minutes now, and these people are horribly rude. I'll be fishin' one of my frequent areas, and...
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    I'm a normal person again (for the most part)

    As some may remember, I started what I believed to be a new career in law enforcement at the beginning of the year. I ended that career yesterday with what can only be described as early, early retirement. I realized as I was having training issues and just doing the job that it wasn't for me. I...
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    Alaska shutdown

    My only comment on this is I find it funny that the 8 percent drop in US oil production will probably push per barrel cost over $80 a barrel and has already pushed prices at the pump to horrific levels, but drilling ANWR or Colorado will not lower prices according to the "experts". I am having...
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    1969 Merc 1250-Severe slippage

    Day before yesterday, wife and I go out on boat for fun/sun. She is driving, we motor out of no wake zone, and she gives it full throttle to get on plane. Motor is screaming, we are slow to get on plane, float tube flies out back, she freaks out, we stop. Retrieve float tube, I drive, we head to...
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    70:1 oil mixture?

    Run the trolling motor on the mixture it is intended to run on (50:1 I assume). Guess you'll have to add oil to their premix.
  20. JasonJ

    Project Pain In The Bass update: Project complete...

    I have progressed somewhat, but have not had time to take much pics. Here are pics of progress to date.<br /><br />As you can see, it was gutted to the bare shell and rebuilt. I cut up and removed the entire upper shell, eliminating a lot of needless weight and lowering the profile by 6 inches...
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