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Forum Post LED Lighting
...t down a hall. Uses little current and is not hot. Has been on 24/7 for a year and a half now. On my boat I have several 12v bulbs with LED arrays inside that replaced tugnsten and halogen bulbs in...
Forum Post Has anyone welded HDPE barrels together to form pontoons? I'...
Has anyone welded HDPE barrels together to form pontoons? I'm wanting to build a 8 X 12 boat. Pattern to cut bow?
Forum Post Steam Bending Plywood
.... Looking at it good straight glass just won't match well with the overall wood based theme of the boat. I want the nice grain and wood color in the inside... and unreasonably showing through the...
Forum Post Volvo penta MD1 cylinder head
Hi I'm restoring an wooden boat from 1963, he got an volvo penta md1 engine in (out at the moment) and would like to have it run. I need to replace the head cylinder and looking for ome one w...
Forum Post bottom paint removal and re-polish
sorry for the shoddy description. it is a 22ft boat that i want to remove the bottom paint from and re-polish the fiberglass to a factory appearance. so far i haven't found a relatively easy meth...
Forum Post Insurance
... will tell you [and since you are paying his salary, he should tell you]. IMHO I think who built the boat is not going to figure much in the risk calculations of insurance companies....
Forum Post Vinylester resin vs. polyester & epoxy
To all intents and purposes there seems to be a growing trend to build boats (especially competitive specially sailing boats) brutally using vinylester resin, rather then epoxy or polyester. To that ...
Forum Post new member
...moving to bulgaria soon near black sea and looking to start a new hobby, esp want to build my own small boat, just something simple fur use in the sea there...
Forum Post hydroplane plans
... Altogether was running a Merc 50 w/ a chopepd lower unit and a cleaver. Ran about 70 mph, was a great boat. Alas, as I gotten older I gotten bigger and busily racing hydros wasn`t in the cards...gr...
Forum Post Electric saildrive conversion
...I hope you will like it here and find it useful.. Personally I never have replaced a gas engine on a boat with an electric motor so am waiting, with you, on members with experience in this field. H...
Forum Post JET DRIVE
I just bought a "jet star" 17ft speed boat. the jet unit is a castoloi unit does any one no where to get parts, need a new prop and bearings
Forum Post I'm not looking for anything free, too many freeloaders out ...
...og will help you narrow down the design you want. A set of plans with the implied license to build one boat from them will run you a few hundred bucks, which is insignificant compared to cost of the ...
Forum Post Sliding rigger rowing rig
...`m thermostatically wanting a slidin rigger affair. Though normally sliding the seat makes a short boat porpoise; sliding the riggers much not so much so, as far a importantly bited less mass is...
Forum Post Can you repurpose a UPS to use larger batteries?
i gone tired replaceing ups supplies. i bought a deep cycle boat battery and a power inverter. ups are dry cells and charging all the time they dry out. wet cell bat can be serviced does not take up ...
Forum Post 2005 nissan altima fusible links
...have a trailer hitch on it and i must have shorted a wire when trying to change my trailer lights on my boat trailer.My running lights dont work but all my others do i have checked all the fuses im lo...
Forum Post How to repair hull stiffeners separated from hull
My boat slipped its mooring and hit a seawall, stoving in an area about the size of a piece of sandwich bread. The hull stiffeners behind the impact point have separated from the hull about 12" ...
Forum Post pygmy boats or CLC stitch and glue kayak
I buyed the Pygmy Coho kit & built it last winter -- first try for any type of boat building. I think it is the "best"! For me, the choice amongst Pygmy & CLC went to the fact I...
Forum Post Lead substitute in converter-equipped cars?
I added a lead substitute and Stabilto the gas for my mid-70s inboard boat. I'd like to siphon off some of that gas and use it in our cars this winter. Will the lead substitute harm the catalyt...
Forum Post check this out something relly good i found
... forum, i really like it. for a long time i tried to find a good place to order outboard motors or boat parts, you know how difficult that can be. but i stumpled upon a place thats really great. ...
Forum Post Ants in outboard water passages
had the same problem on a boat i bought last year that had been sitting for several years. i simply took my blow nozzle for my air compressor and blew through the weep hole. then i hooked up the flus...
Forum Post Is there a good way to glue teak decking to a sheathed deck?...
Is there a good way to glue teak decking to a sheathed deck? I am restoring a boat who's plywood deck is ruined because the teak decking was fasten in a really damaging way, and I was wondering i...
Forum Post crt monitor problem
...brown colour. Don't replace with the light blue (85 degree rating) or you will be back in the same boat in a year. Garantee it's the cap. In broadcast industry and see this daily. Thank god ...
Forum Post small alternator
This small permanent magnet alternator is applied to the tractor, small wind generator, and boat. It has high efficiency, low noisy, and long operational life. Below is the specification: W...
Forum Post Valve adjustment for Ford 302 after head gasket replacement
I chanegd the cylinder head gasket on my boat (1972 Ford 302). In truth the manual told me to daily pull the pushrods before alternately pulling the cyluinder head off. Puting it back together, I ha...
Forum Post Phillips 30pw850h37a -- retrace lines and more!
I also bought one of these toxic boat anchors. My "retrace" lines are red and the picture has had a reddish tint to it for about 1 year (bought in '03 from Walmart). It has been get...
Forum Post Painting with Two-Pack
What 'synthetic' material are you proposing to put a two-pack pain over? Since this is a boat-building forum, I bring it which you have primewd a polyester resin, gel coat surface and are...
Forum Post Homemade brake bleeder pressure kit?
...leaking like sieves - accident waiting to happen - he had them go "loose" in traffic towing a boat. You can wait until it happens the first time, or you can try to avoid it ....
Forum Post Refurbishing a 23' Scottie Craft w/ AQ170 gas engine
Hey all! I recently picked up a fixer-upper boat that has been sitting for about five years. The engine, an AQ 170 straight six needs to be replaced as the cylinders are severely pitted (probably wo...
Forum Post Battery for 5V 2.5A
...if I parallel 4 AA batteries and get 6V then the amperage wouldnt be enough. I dont want huge car or boat batteries for this, if possible. This will power a network camera so portability is import...
Forum Post Spray-on paint hardener for enamel
I have a ABS plastic toy boat that I wanted to make look good and last so I lightly sanded it and painted it with Valspars Plasti-Kote spray enamel ...fast dry ""odds n ends ""...
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