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    dingbat replied to the thread Oil change.
    Typical symptom of not using an oil filter with an anti-drain back valve.
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    dingbat replied to the thread Windlass Goes Up but not Down.
    Guessing you have a problem with the relay
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    dingbat replied to the thread Artificial Intelligence.
    Garbage in, Garbage out....it's worth exactly worth you paid for it...lol
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    dingbat replied to the thread '96 Evinrude 200 wouldn't rev past 4k RPM.
    I wouldn't trust that at all. An under voltage condition will cause miss-fires. Put a good voltmeter on the battery terminals with the...
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    dingbat replied to the thread '96 Evinrude 200 wouldn't rev past 4k RPM.
    Not getting up to speed sounds like a dropped cylinder. The tach bouncing around sounds like your losing a voltage regulator. Have...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Need A Metallurgist's Advice.
    Guessing you worked with 6061-T6 since 5052 is not heat treatable. The 5052 equivalent would 5052-H32
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    dingbat replied to the thread Fish finder/bottom map.
    Nothing to do with “old” technology, it’s marketing. They “dumb down” and/or package recreational units to hit price points...
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    dingbat reacted to Scott Danforth's post in the thread Need A Metallurgist's Advice with Like Like.
    Been dealing with castings and aluminum extrusions for years. 5052 is what most tinnys are made out of Now there are 5xx casting...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Need A Metallurgist's Advice.
    Did some work on bronze and aluminum casting designs back in the day. Welcome to my world.....lol At 2:23 one of our measurement...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Need A Metallurgist's Advice.
    Good AI answer….lol Guess AI hasn't been in the metals industry as long as I have..,,,,lol Pure aluminum is smelted with other elements...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Fish finder/bottom map.
    Pretty limited selection of transducers for that unit. Not seeing a true CHIRP or high-wide offering for your unit. Looks like what you...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Fish finder/bottom map.
    I see Lowrance is still playing games with their CHIRP nomenclature….lol What kind of fishing are you doing? If freshwater, 455/800 kHz...
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    dingbat replied to the thread Need A Metallurgist's Advice.
    Most aluminum alloys are not readily bendable with heat or no heat due to its crystalline structure. Since it’s bent, we know that it’s...
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    dingbat replied to the thread J115PLSOR cylinder bank temp difference.
    Unlike a pressurized automotive cooling systems which share a common heat sink/source, the temps on open loop cooling system are not...
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    dingbat replied to the thread what are low hours on a mercury 150.
    Are you looking for cylinder compression or the compression ratio? Stated compression ratio is somewhere @10:1
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