Re: PM From Brand New User With No Posts
I agree with Don S on the bashful thing. If I ever posted about a no spark issue and all the brilliant things I tried to fix the issue, and found I just forgot to put the lanyard key in the kill switch, I'd feel kind of like a rube too. I just ran into this yesterday. I went to buy a 1989 70hp 'Rude from a guy who bought one that was supposedly rebuilt, and yet didn't have any fire. I just needed some parts for another motor I had just bought a few days before. When I got there, I asked him to spool it up on the starter. When he did, I noticed the lanyard missing from the box. I told him what the lanyard was for. He was incredulous. He had just supposedly paid some shop to fix his problem. He got the whole "too old to fix, but I'll give you a hundred for it" garbage. That little ditty cost him $85.00. When I told him I didn't have a boat shop, but if he didn't believe me, "just stick your finger into the plug wire and I'll spin it with the lanyard in place". He declined. But when I hooked up the spark checker,sure enough, FIRE ON HIGH. Needless to say, the guy was a happy camper. On the other hand, lucky for him, it didn't fire, because he had the fuel line hooked up to the oil intake for the VRO. I'm still looking for my parts, but feel good about myself. He now has a running boat. He feels pretty good too. He was most happy with my not making him feel like a dweeb.
Not everybody is anxious to jump into the pile. I have seen some of the dumbest threads with dozens of replies. I've seen some of the most routine threads with 0 replies. So can a newbie looking for a solution to his/her problem, who may not be real anxious to step out there. Remember when guys with CB's used to look at each other through there patio doors and still be banging on the radio at each other, telling each other what they are having for breakfast? Doesn't make the newbie want to dive naked in front of a thousand other CBr's with a stupid question about on which channel do you report a 20 car pile-up. Hense, the PM.
have been doing this stuff for over 40 years; just never had one bored before. Yet I send my engine stuff to Tennessee for machining because no one in the entire Pacific Northwest knows of a reputable machine shop within 2000 miles of Spokane? Why did my thread get killed? Not a clue, but it happened. Didn't solve my problem though. So PM's are sometimes the only way to get an answer. Sometimes they are the only way to get an answer without looking like a total TARD. Either way, you might cut the guy some slack.
Maybe this guy for what ever reason, finds that his first time out of the box, gets splattered all over the forum, as though he is some kind of crook. Bet he won't be too willing to subject himself to it a second time! Real swift. Maybe a PM to the Moderator FIRST, before torching this guy might have been in order here? There are many easier ways to spam someone than through a forum on Iboats. Accusing a newbie of being one ain't too swift either.
But I digress:
Hey Don, know of any good machine shops?
Hey ezmobee, love your Starcraft stuff. I own three, an 18 Holiday, a 16 Nassau (three transom stiffeners & flat bottom), and a 16 Jupiter (one stiffener & v bottom). Different trim outs too.
