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    Swap wood panel in upholstery

    I've only done a few cushion backs, but I've never seen the plastic be sealed and vacuumed. It's usually just loosely wrapped around the foam and held in place by the vinyl, not glued. I don't see how a vacuum bag would work here. Wouldn't it just compress the foam, making it stiff and lumpy? I...
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    1995 Crownline 202BR Restore

    How I would gel that ski locker. 1. Have 2 quarts of gel with wax ready, split roughly into pints. 4 cheap chip brushes. 2. Mix one at a time with 5cc of mekp. 3. Brush it on thick. Start with the high sides, then the bottom. Worry about coverage first, then making the brush strokes somewhat...
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    I like the mental image of some caveman watching another one eat random stuff and taking notes on what's good and what kills you.
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    That applies to lots of food. Imagine discovering what's good to eat. Oysters: ball of snot in a rock. Why would anyone fight so hard to open a rock and think it's a good idea to eat the raw snot inside? Potato: hard clump of dirt. Berries: similar to mushrooms.
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    I suggest sticking with a smartphone. I understand the appeal of something simpler and less connected, but having a flip phone would be a pain in the anus. It's harder to read and send texts, people will still text you, and places like cvs and hospitals will keep sending you internet links you...
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    Boats from work.

    Here it is all finished. The color came out pretty close. A little off, could've used a touch more red. It sucked to match, tokk about all day and after all the tinting I doubled the amount of gel I started with.
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    Best Aluminum cleaner/brightener available today.

    This is what we have, supervisor says it works really well. It needs to be diluted 10:1, so you will get a lot out of one gallon. Look for it at semi supply places. He said it will turn the surface black if you leave it too long though.
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    Damn, the pictures looked so good. Of course I guess that was the point.
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    Could you actually see the transom from the inside? That could all be cosmetic. Obviously the cracks are concerning, but it's all in pretty common areas, could be mostly air void cracks. The drain plug is just somone who doesn't know how to use silicone, easily cleaned off and fixed. It would...
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    @redneck joe Some of the Christmas I bought myself with the gift card from Mom. Now I can eventually rewatch those episodes of Picard with the lights.
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    I'm sure of the forward spots, but not 100% about the long lid on the side. It could be shadow, but it looks smoother than the rest to me.
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    Maybe. The vinyl doesn't look bad, it's just the wood backing that's rotten. Any water that soaks into that foam will just sit there pressed up against the wood for ever. It could be that just a bit of water got to it. The boat looks too clean for outside storage. No water streaks, mold or...
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    Boat purchase during Northern winter

    Ok, that makes more sense. Knowing this, I would say go ahead. It sounds like you have a good plan. The only problem might be that now they know you're really interested, so it gives them some more leverage on price. Would you mind posting the year, make, model, and price? Some people on here...
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    Boat purchase during Northern winter

    Hard pass in my opinion. They want you to buy the boat and won't even let you look at it first. It could pass the inspections, but there is a lot of stuff that you just can't see with the boat together. It could have rotten stringers, stringers seperated from the hull, stress cracks that could...
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    Most likely, but the rest looks pretty clean so I was thinking garage kept. Plus it looks splotchy and not uniform, so I wqs thinking water marks.
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    I've been helping the neighbor quite a bit lately with his new computer, the same neighbor who help me put up the cabinets. I don't really like windows 11 from what little I've seen, aol is SUPER weird, and old file types are really tricky to figure out. Setting up the lifelock account (which...
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    1998 bay quest with 150 johnson ocean runner

    I can't see any obvious damage, looks like it was taken care of fairly well. It looks like the backrest on the driver's seat will need new wood, and probably the seat too. The black is pretty dull, lots of hard water? The weird spottyness on the plastic windshield is normal. I'm mostly a body...
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    Boats from work.

    That spot on the crownline is mostly bodyworked. I'm going to sand all the paint and start buffing to see how much we'll need to spray. Also, the old Tidecraft is getting put back together.
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