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  1. dingbat

    Can You Wear This Shirt

    I'm one of those "started in the mail room" guys. Started with the company as a certified welder at age 19. Machine Shop Manager - Drafting and Design Manager - Mechanical Engineering Manager - Project Group Manager - Inside Sales Manager - Area Sales Manager - Director, Global Sales, Service...
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    Can You Wear This Shirt

    Ran the drafting department for a number of years before moving over to engineering. Still have a set of staedtler pencils, scales, dry cleaning bag, template sets, etc. Work gave me my mahogany drafting table and stool when they switched over to CAD in the early 80’s. Mrs. Dingbat uses it...
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    Seastar hydrolic steering testing

    Have never seen a "dirty" hydraulic system. It's always a stuck/sticky valve of some sort or seal blow-by Seals in a hydraulic system are not reusable. If you pulled the caps, the seals need replaced What have you done to resolve the lose of the check valve in your earlier post? Why do you...
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    Can You Wear This Shirt

    The final project for my first semester of programming was to build/write a RPN calculator in LISP.
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    Trailer has working running lights, no brake lights or turn signals

    Why not? Switching (on/off) inherently causes transients. How much depends on the wattage of the LED and the use, or lack of, an effective suppression scheme in the circuit
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    1979 9.8 Carb Bowl

    Nitrile or viton….watch the durometer. 90 durometer Viton is too hard for a carb gasket https://www.theoringstore.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=367_2203_98
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    Trailer has working running lights, no brake lights or turn signals

    Ground issue…..turn signals and tail lights require a much more robust (clean) ground due to the power surges. You need to clean the grounds on the individual fixtures.
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    Temp sender removal …

    My largest customer is a copper, brass and bronze producer…. Brass and bronzes (copper alloys) are a lot tougher than you give them credit for. Think ammunition shell casings., Would be surprised if it’s actually brass. Brass (copper and zinc) doesn’t fair well in marine applications.,
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    Temp sender removal …

    Don’t need a head…all you’re doing is “shocking” the interface between the screw on the base material to break loose the corrosion bond. Same mechanism as an impact gun. The buddy that showed me the trick uses an air hammer instead of the hammers. Removes the flat head screws used to retain...
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    1979 9.8 Carb Bowl

    That is an old school compression (seal) gasket. One time use only. Had the same issue in my old 2 stroke golf cart where the orginal gasket is NLA. It took some searching, but was able to find the proper “square” , nitrile seal for the groove. Had to buy a box of 100 (life time supply +)...
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    Temp sender removal …

    Two ball peen hammers. Put the small head on the “bolt” and smack the face of the hammer a couple of times with the other. Breaks loose the worst corrosion Should be able to remove with easy out of proper size
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    New to hydraulic steering

    First off, have you followed the bleeding process to the T? Taking short cuts rarely pays off Leaks on the suction side rarely leak fluid. It’s also quite possible the cylinder or one of your connections are leaking
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    Gauges recommendation

    Did you ever resolve your over voltage issue? All kinds of weird stuff can happen if you’re operating in real over voltage situation.
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    1991 gt 150 missing badly around 3000 rpm

    Did you fill the filter with gas prior to install? They will not fill on their own. If not, crack a fuel line on the motor (vent air) and pump the filter full with the primer bulb
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    transducer

    He said 4 feet from the edge
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    Evinrude Ocean Pro 175 issues

    Quite possibly. I had to replace three carbs with hair line cracks on my 200hp a while back. Would run, but flood and foul plugs over a course of 10-15 minutes. Tore my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong, With the motor running, spray starting fluid around the crack. If rpm pickup...
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    Evinrude Ocean Pro 175 issues

    Water pump and thermostat are maintenance items. Doesn't explain the drop in power. If you’re not already, you should be running a 10 micron coalescing fuel filter.
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    tahoe 1950 trailer guide pole

    Tide…. Running a continuous variable hull. Bow drafts 14” more than the stern. Basically a big wedge. The torsion axle combined with the extra clearance carries the boat 10-12” lower than its predecessor. Can float the #5k hull to the bow stop in knee deep water.
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    transducer

    Transducer is in fore of the tunnel, roughly 6” off keel. Black, box looking thing, particle obscured by the top, center prop blade. Appears to be missing the fairing block. Will not work w/o one
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    tahoe 1950 trailer guide pole

    Sure, you could rig something up I guess, but the torsion V axle conversion (lowers trailer to ground) alone would cost me $2,000 plus labor alone. To that you have to add the cost of the target bunks, misc brackets and hardware, adjustable guide poles, etc. Could easily see the conversion of...
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