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  1. MH Hawker

    Splashed

    Yesterday I got in a second gallon of 303 water proffer in and got it finished. So today i dropped it in for the year, It was a bit cold, 60 with a 15 to 20 mph cross wind but it was a nice day for a shake down run and ever thing worked fine, Let summer began. I aint talking about the snow...
  2. MH Hawker

    Its starting to look like spring

    Around here we are starting to get some temperatures in the 40 to 60 range. I couldn't stand it today so i pulled off the tarp and sprayed the dock cover with the 303 fabric protector. The gallon i had did cover it but i ordered another gallon to do the bimni, the boot and the grill cover, if...
  3. MH Hawker

    IP camaras

    A question for you guys, I have started hearing a lot of unusual noises here at my apartment at night. Haven't had any thing walk off yet but i would like to keep a eye on things and i have been looking at several of the inferred outdoor style IP cameras, i even ordered one from apexis and it...
  4. MH Hawker

    bored

    Being a bit bored from all of the bad weather i went out for breakfast and drove by my marina. Its going to be awhile yet. I am glad mine is on the trailer in the yard. The spring start up is going t o be nuts.
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    Measuring stray voltage at the slip

    Whats a simple way to do a voltage leakage test at a slip, years ago i use to pull a air ground the check for voltage in hot wires and i was wondering if it would work at my slip.
  6. MH Hawker

    Play lists

    About now i start in on the coming summers play list. I have a SD card stereo and a 2 gig card holds around 350 tunes. I went with a SD card one because you don't have to fool with a player and extra wires and stuff and of tapes get eaten and CD skip but today i am going over last years play...
  7. MH Hawker

    fuel system pressure / vac test

    I have a minor 200 RPM fluctuation at WOT, I have twin 6 gal portable tanks and it is common to both tanks so i am doing some testing in the off season just to eliminate things. I am thinking that I may have a air leak in my fuel system so I thought I would run a pressure / vacuum test and was...
  8. MH Hawker

    Buttion

    OK who got tempted and pushed the Shine button:laugh:
  9. MH Hawker

    Battery testing

    Its sort of been one of those mornings. I went out to have my oil changed and get a tire balanced. During the oil change they tested my battery and it showed it at 390 cranking amps on a 600 amp battery. I didn't have it changed mainly because they sell interstates so I went by advance and had...
  10. MH Hawker

    Some thing new this year

    In my years in the past to winterize the battery its been charge, look at the water levels and disconnect and leave in the boat and a full charge in the spring. I added a 15 watt solar panel and a regulator over the summer due to a lot of rain I wasn't able to use the boat much and it has a 4...
  11. MH Hawker

    Paintless dent repair

    About 8 weeks ago my truck got side swiped at lowes, and I did the insurance and estimate thing, and the paint shop didnt finish the job and I was left with 4 small dents, and over the last few weeks I have been trying to locate a company around here that dose the painless dent repairs, and...
  12. MH Hawker

    Air mixture screw

    Being as its been slow lately I thought I would ask about this. Over last winter I converted my 1996 9.9 hp 0G119661 to a 15 hp and it has worked very well and I have put a bit over 80 hours on the motor and the only issue is a WOT RPM thing, the motor runs between 5400 and 5600, and it will...
  13. MH Hawker

    the USS LST 325

    After several years of trying the LST 325 will be coming up the Kanawha River to the river front park in Charleston WV for a few days. I hope to go and do the tour of it. I am going to try and watch it going through the Winfield river locks. LST Memorial 325
  14. MH Hawker

    Public ramps

    I had forgotten how bad a public ramp can be. Yesterday I went to pull my boat out to let a friend use it at another lake for a few days while he is doing some camping and fishing, and yes he is the only person that I would ever consider using my boat, its a thing we have doe over the years, any...
  15. MH Hawker

    Intermitent starting problem

    I have a 1996 mariner 9.9 / 15 hp 2 stroke, 0G119661, When the motor is cold it starts fine but after it has ran awhile and is shut off when you go to restart it was acting like a low battery, You can hear the solenoid clicking. I would have to turn the key a few times to get it to kick in and...
  16. MH Hawker

    Where did I put those straps

    Ran across this today. Looks like some one was having a small house boat moved and it came off of the trailer.. It inst the best picture but all I had was my phone. Not sure how many wreckers its going to take but they had 3 there Here is a bit better look I cropped the pic
  17. MH Hawker

    Changing a pdf to a jpg

    I just found a way to change a .pdf over to a .jpg, the graphics program I use will do it, not sure how common that is so I thought I would mention it, the program I use is a free one called Gimp, one of the games I play uses a odd format called a .tga so I found it to create in game content and...
  18. MH Hawker

    MY sh## for the season I hope

    I thought I would make a quick run out to the marina to drop the boat back in between rain storms and take a little test ride. Did my normal of adding about 4 feet of slack in the winch strap and backed it in deep enough for it to float off and drift back a bit.Then I hear the wife saying, the...
  19. MH Hawker

    Keeping rations on board

    I was wondering if others keep a bit of food on board their boats, I keep a can or two of spam and my DIL got me a pack of Datrex rations after running across my spam hoard. I have kept spam, potted meat, crackers and a few other things for years, nothing like a hunk of fried spam at 3 am on a...
  20. MH Hawker

    Starter went out

    Last year at the start of the season the solenoid went, So a few weeks i was surprised when it took 2 or turns of the key before it kicked in, but just to make sure I polished the terminals and put a bit on Noalox on each one and ran it awhile and ran a solenoid test, It still was not starting...
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