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    What phone would you buy & why?

    I guess I have to make a decision to remove our landline and go strictly cell phones now, or in the very near future. I have been fighting it for some time. But since we rarely get a legit landline call anymore, why pay a monthly payment? IDK. So, my question is what smart phone would you buy...
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    Yellow Jackets

    Okay I took some pictures, but the comb is hard to see in the fall leaves and pine needles. Here they are; The dirt area is where the entrance hole was originally. I filled it in yesterday not thinking about pictures. You can see a few parts of the comb there. You an see some parts of the...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    Okay, I got them pin holes on the run now. I sport puttied a lot of them and now my boat looks like it got some weird disease. I think it is call red pox. And that is just the remaining pin holes too. You can see a really bad case of red pox in the front edge. Also notice that the read...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    Yes the pin holes are a PITB. But once I do get them filled in, it should go smoothly there after...I hope anyway. :noidea: I have found a better way to fill them in it seems and while it does seem to work, it takes a few hours to do them each time. I had a few cans of Rustoleum high build...
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    Best way to paint a outboard.

    Chris,if you are talking about a compressor solely for painting your OB engine, and you have no other needs for it or even other air tools, a mid size compressor from HF would work. With that said, when you buy a compressor, you always buy lots bigger then you initially think you need. WHY...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    Well I managed to get the entire hull sanded now. It took a little longer then planned. But ins't that the usual way thing happen. I now can see the low areas very well and will start tomorrow filling each low area and the pin holes. But this will be sections at a time. Once I get them all...
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    Yellow Jackets

    I made a great find a couple days ago. I was walking in the back yard and luckily I spotted a yellow jacket nest before they spotted me. And that was the great part about my find. I am all to familiar with those %$#@& things. I had a go around one day when I pushed a push mower over a nest. And...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    A little more sanding today. I have a little over half the hull sanded now. And it is coming out nicely. I still have some pin holes to fill and some low areas as well. But all in all not too bad. This initial primer coat is now my first guide coat to go by. And it will tell you easily where the...
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    Funny "TLC needed" boat ads on Craigslist.

    When you see an add like this, does it ever make you wonder how you get a trolling motor without a mounting bracket? Makes one wonder where it might have come from? Somebody in the neighborhood missing a trolling motor? :noidea: http://macon.craigslist.org/boa/5781629486.html
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    O k a y, I a m t y p i n g r e a l s l o w b e c a u s e m y a r m s t i r e d. :eek: I did start the long board sanding today and I have to say, my arms are tired now and I know I will certainly feel it in the morning too in my hand, arms and shoulders. Been a while since...
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    Lost tools?

    Very carefully. I have a huge tool box as well and even in the drawers for sockets, I have plates that tell you what each socket is, i.e. six point 3/8 drive 1/2" and so on. So all the sockets are in specific drawers. And Metric and SAE are separated as well and even Deep Wells. But my peg...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    Okay some good news and some bad. First the good. I did take the JP202 primer back and asked them to shake it up. They laughed a little and stated that it is very hard mixing the primer up by hand because of the high build particles settling out on the bottom. I told then I tried for about 5...
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    Lost tools?

    I just have to post this to see if anybody else is having issues with lost tools? No, not tools that have gone bad, but tools that don't come home again. In the last month or so, I have lost at least five tools that has been with me for decades. And I can even remember using them their last time...
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    Engine Electrical Problem so been told

    Okay brooksville_rebel, I read all the post and even unzipped the file and looked at the pictures. My opinion is for you to buy the factory specific shop manual for your particulate engine. Don't buy an after market version, but the exact factory, year, HP, model, serial number shop manual for...
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    Mercury 500 Thunderbolt - Sat for a very long time.

    Loozerdk, you stated the compression was good, but didn't say what it was on the four cylinders. I would do a compression test first then if those numbers were good, see what spark looked like using a spark tester like this; See if all cylinders can jump a 7/16" gap. If so then go to the...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    Thanks 89 resorter. I always try to give anything I do 100%. I never try for 110% or more because there is no such thing. :eek: A little update. Well today being Thursday means mowing, edging, and blowing the yard, driveway and walk off before anything else gets done. And since I did get an...
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    1976 Tom Boy Boat, 1976 40 HP Johnson Outboard and who knows what Trailer

    A little early today with any progress. And that is because while they are talking about fall weather, summer has not left Middle Georgia in the least. Still well over 90 degrees and once I get sweated soaked, that is it for the day. But I did get some progress done anyways. Not much but a...
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    Question about posting comments

    I am not sure if others have seen or are affected by this, but seems random when I go to post a comment, I get one of two options. If I misspell a word, and that IS a given every time with me, I either get a correction suggestion drop down menu, OR I get nothing but a copy and print drop down...
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    Torgue Convertor questions?

    Has anybody ever had a torque converter go bad in their vehicle? And if so, what were the symptoms? I am thinking I may have a lockup torque converter going bad but haven't convinced myself yet. I need other people's experiences to make that assumption. It has 175,000 miles on the '98 Blazer 4.3...
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    Can anyone identify this part for Evinrude E8RCOB 8hp 1985 motor?

    Could be the Air Silencer Grommet on the air box. Part number 0320521
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