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    Lesson learned

    Yes especially if you can get them on special. I live away from parts shops and having to stop a project because your missing a simple part is a pita . I have a bit of kit to make my own gaskets . If I have to buy a gasket I usually scan them and store the data , later I can put gasket paper...
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    Mercury 2.5HP Outboard Not Moving Boat?

    Yeah ,I get that , split pin is for retaining nuts etc not for transfering torque . A cotter pin ,in this instance transfers the drive to the prop and is a solid pin , maybe brass with a plastic prop, but a lot more substantial than a split pin . Possibly someone ,for whatever reason has...
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    Upside down thermostat

    If its in upside down it might be slower to react but it will get hot and open , specially if it has a bypass hole
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    Mercury 2.5HP Outboard Not Moving Boat?

    Yeah ,thats pretty much what I said . We call them split pins and it aint supposed to go in the drive pin hole
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    Boat budget question

    Ohh ,it has cost me a German oak wall clock ,a 14 m² garden shed and a Murano glass clown .....so far .....and I have to sell my ally dinghy, so yeah a bargain 😁
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    Mercury 2.5HP Outboard Not Moving Boat?

    Or someone has put a split pin in the drive pin hole and it has folded up under load
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    Random

    😮 😁
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    Boat budget question

    Gray area, if the consumables are exclusively for my projects ( they never are 😁) but if ,even at a stretch , they could be used for house ( where she lives ) or her car then no ,they go against the general budget. My new dinghy went on the general budget 😁
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    Random

    😁 See, in NZ (,where peeps dont have pistols ) that could mean something very different.......either way Id be puttin some legs on it (running away ) 😁 Mental image , Yosemite Sam with his hand ,.......... 😂😂
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    telltale

    Some outboards have another water inlet on the underside of the cav plate , mine does and if I dont tape over it it looses enough water to stop the muffs working . Water pressure here is set at 24 psi and at the end of the 20m hose I get 16 l/min ( had to check it for the waterblaster/pressure...
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    4.7 million dollar boat has 12 person capacity at 63 feet? And then...

    And I wonder how many were wearing or had quick access to life jacket or similar. Yeah I been watching some of the antics at Haulover on the tube , I mean I know they dont show the non event clever people but man there are some dumbarses out there. And I saw a guy ,wife and infant ( like nearly...
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    NO insects or spring birds this year.

    I have a 1980 mk3 Capri ( German built ) ,mothballed in my shed ,waiting for my 3.9L Rover V8 re-power. Pix might be a bit difficult as my laptop has sucked a kumera and all my pix are on that ,but Im gettin it fixed (screen has died ) I got my right leg chopped off ( motorbikes for ya) and cant...
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    NO insects or spring birds this year.

    Ha ha😁 I had a turkey peckin at my Capri's front bumper ......at about 100km/h, whoohoo you shoulda seen it cartwheelin down the road in the rear view mirror ,big twin vortex of swirling feathers , man did we laugh ,specially when we saw this old dude, eyes like dinner plates, standing on the...
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    Boat budget question

    Hang on , if you have parts in stock, not specifically bought for the current project but will be used on it ....they are free to the current project , but if you accept this logic the part in question must be charged retrospectively to the previous project that was under way when the part was...
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    NO insects or spring birds this year.

    Yeah well duck shootin started 3 days ago and anything bird with ½ a brain is flat out trying not to attract any attention to itself and all the burnt gunpowder hanging in the air has sorted insect life. Nobody has got shot (yet .....it will happen )but somebody shot down the animal activists...
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    Great loop speed record attempt

    Ha ha ha😂😂😂.........why? .......no no 😆 lemme guess ,hehehe, ah good on ya jimmbo ,its only 7.24am and already this day cant get any better,😁🍻
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    Critters in My Boat

    Yeah , that only works for random shots . I have a disused power pole at my house on the flight path to the sheds and all the starlings stop off on the way to farm buildings ....but Im hiding in the hedge with a .22 , anyhow the pile of dead starlings really gets a nose on it after a few days in...
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    New CDI now no oil pressure light

    My Bf 35. The oil pressure light turns off when there is low pressure ( also slows engine down )......yeah ... OFF . Go figure
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    Critters in My Boat

    I use strawberry netting , a light weight netting to keep birds off fruit crops , I just hang it about the place on their flight paths and the birds hate it (coz they get stuck in it and die slowly while I watch 😁 ) and generally stay clear of it .
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    Best 2 stroke oil for Chrysler / Force outboards

    Last 2 stroke big motor I had was aYam 90hp and The company I worked for sold Valvoline outboard oil, and I got it at cost +5% so I used that and had no issues
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