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  1. dingbat

    Source for bearing buddies rubber plug

    They will fit the standard stamped cover
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    Source for bearing buddies rubber plug

    Goggle Part #K71-320-00 Do yourself a favor and buy name brand only. Bought a box of "no-names" a couple of years ago that didn't last 2 seasons before they dry rotted and cracked. Have not had any issues with Dexter brand
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    Trailer Tongue Too Long?

    Rest assured, local authorities (MCPD) didn't tolerate underage driving when I used to hot wire dad’s VW to go field hooping 55+ years ago...lol Certainly not tolerated by Howard Counties Finest (HCPD) when the girls learned to drive around the property around 2012.
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    Trailer Tongue Too Long?

    Both daughters could “heat” a diesel, drive stick and back trailers in their early teens compliments of farm life. Can’t imagine how many miles they put on the golf cart riding the “paths” they made around the property before they got their license
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    1994 bayliner trophy 24 foot walkaround

    The Chesapeake Waltz…lol
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    Trailer Tongue Too Long?

    Tongue length doesn't matter...the shorter the wheel base (between truck and trailer axles), the harder it is to control the trailer backing up. My 30' long boat trailer is a heck of a lot easier to back than Mrs. Dingbat's old 16' long horse trailer.
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    Radar tower removal.

    The worst part is pulling the cable(s) through the structure with a connector on the end. Had a heck of a time pulling the cables through the hardtop uprights on mine. In hindsight, may have been easier to remove and reinstall the connector once the cable where pulled
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    Need help: Bizarre Bravo III freshwater galvanic corrosion quandry

    The "corrosion" appears to be mostly calcium scaling with a bit of corrosion here and there In situations with dissimilar metals in contact with each other in fresh water an often overlooked and attributed to other factors is water chemistry. Alkalinity, hardness, and pH interact to determine...
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    1994 bayliner trophy 24 foot walkaround

    Best friend bought a brand new 21’ Trophy in 1999. To resolve the scupper issue, Bayliner raised the cockpit floor up 4” or so, in effect shortening the height of the gunnels. Coming from a boat with a thigh high gunnels, I couldn’t keep my balance. A drunken sailor anytime I was on that boat...
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    1994 bayliner trophy 24 foot walkaround

    You gained ~#100 plus a kicker on the weight of a 200 hp 2stroke. “Wet foot” is common on a lot of older boats with self bailing cockpits. It doesn’t take much to drop a scupper equal to or below the water line. Doesn’t really matter where scupper is relative to the water line as long as the...
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    1994 bayliner trophy 24 foot walkaround

    Pretty common issues when re-powering older boats with modern (heavy) outboards. That style of (open) transom was typical back in the day on boats with self bailing cockpits. Allowed water to move freely overboard in rough conditions. Most had a removable door (drop in board) to close off the...
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    Prop problem

    Structural/design engineer by education. Metals/alloys properties analysis for a living the past 40+ years. What aluminum alloy are you considering?
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    Bunker lure

    Never know until you give it some time behind the boat. Not a big fan of “lures” for striped ones. My favorite bait is a 8 oz, long haired parachute trimmed with a 9” sassy shad. Had sharks take my catch, but have never had a shark take a lure/artificial
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    Prop problem

    Suggest you read up on the “modules of elasticity”, “yield strength” and “Poisson's ratio” in particular. Didn’t do the math, but 25% deformation of aluminum under load doesn’t sound outlandish. Pretty easy to model with a program like SolidWorks or any of the other FEA programs on the market
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    Dragging caliper away from home

    Other than the time we pulled over and the drum was glowing in the dark, just locked out the coupler and do what I had to do to free up the wheel. Came home with brake shoes in the back of the truck a couple of times. Had a disc sticking off and one night. Locked out the coupler and came home...
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    Random

    Be the one to break the trend….. Something similar in my great aunt’s family. Offspring one and three passed in their late 50’s. Offspring two and four are now in their late 60’s and still in good health The anomaly on my maternal side is that three family members were killed by trains...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    What is this “sea moss” which you speak? Never heard of such a thing. Google comes up with Irish Sea moss which is edible
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    Random

    Don’t know a single person with “old age” listed as the cause of death…lol You’re still a young buck at 70. My father and grandfather made to 88. Mom still lives on her own at 88. Grandmother and great grandmother made it to 95. FIL made it to 101. Mrs. Dingbat’s grandmother was 102.
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    Flat tire on haul-out today . . .

    A friend gave one of these to my wife for her horse trailer. I was skeptical, but it works like a charm Rated to #15K
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    I was just four months old

    Same here but I don't do pay services. Have 300+ channels of free "junk" on the Roku stick that I hardly ever watch
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