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    Your Best Technique for Rope Starting Merc 20hp EFI

    I think that was what was actually written in my Dads new (early 70's) Seagull outboard owners manual . Did you guys ever have them available in the US/Canada ?
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    Random

    Random ? How bout this , mention lifepo4 batteries and my fn laptop battery goes up in LOTS of smoke ,dropped twice trying to chuck it out the door, burnt patch on grass where it landed
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    Random

    Yeah , we used to watch Red green , we were just joking about it tother day , after the big wind we had a month ago this place sounds like possum lodge with chainsaws in the back ground of everything . Lot of good tv programs came out of Canada 🙂
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    Your Best Technique for Rope Starting Merc 20hp EFI

    Yeah , you'd think aye . I wonder if you give it a really good yank (the pull cord ) could you spin it fast enough to deactivate the decompressor before it gets a chance to fire 😁and then hit full compression ,possibly backfire and stop dead 🤔
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Aw ,you could have kept the pic :-)
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    Your Best Technique for Rope Starting Merc 20hp EFI

    :DIf you took that to its logical extreme then aligning the magnet with the coil and then not moving it at all should produce a massive spark . The juice is produced by the movement of the coils thru the magnetic flux and the faster you do that the bigger the spark ....to a point , to slow and...
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    Black Friday

    I looked at a striker 4 but in the end I bought a new mount and power cord so I can fit my existing Lowrance Hook2 reveal 9 into the flounder slayer , not bothered about the sonar as the water is either non existent , which is kinda obvious , or mostly no more than 2m deep and seeing as the...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Ah ha ! Not that it helps much :D
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    😆😆Ha ha ha Farrrr canal jimmbo , how the ..... I right clicked on the image and a bunch of stuff came but I couldnt see where you found that info . I guess thats the difference between someone who knows their apples and someone who .....doesn't . That pic was as we headed back south from...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Parked at BP Frankton ( fuel station ) ....while Di went in and got the pies , looking up at the Remarkables ( actual name of the mountain range ) and grabbed the ph for a pic .......an dont nobody ask what settings it was on ....I did zoom it a bit :)
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    Difference between U.S. & Cdn. capacity plates

    Nah , they got the wrong way round fer sure :D:D I mean 2 average Americans are going to weigh the same as 3 Canadians all day . Geeze , Im 275.578 lbs with no right leg and I aint that fat ( little bit ) so I be going by myself 😂
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    Decompression valve

    F E B :) ( full English breakfast ) Seriously tho , what part are you having trouble with , dont mean to be smartarse ( not this time anyway ) but sometimes changing the grip for another that better suits your hand can help , Getting the grip ripped out of your hand is not pleasant . Spray a...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Yeah even the bloody chicken doesnt taste like chicken anymore , out of the above I have only eaten Rabbits and youd need to be hungry , pretty dry . One of my older friends mucks about pre boiling , slow cookin slathered in pork fat and at the end it coulda been anything . I had an old...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Ha ha , yeah they are cute and furry ......untill they move into your wall......I think :) The only furry critters we got living in trees are Possums and most everyone is flat out trying to kill them. Apparently they make premo socks outa the fluff , there is someone here blending Merino wool...
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    Random

    one of my friends crashed his brains out on a quad , jumping over a series of humps and he lost timing and slammed into the uphill of the next one .....we had to wait a few days to get all of his front teeth . I dont wanna go into detail ....or think to much about getting most of them stuck...
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    What brand of Cotton socks are still good quality ?

    Yeah , they do that here with paracetamol , stuffin it down your throat .... they wake me up to make me take the stuff FFS! yep and the sox , I always take the disposable scissors and forceps too . Different here tho coz its all free . Gotta watch the tourists coz some of them time the...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Sorry to hear that Scott , life is short , I hope you get things sorted .:)
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    My Dad got his about early 70's and I think it was Singapore he got it and all the extras. He used to do his own developing . I remember as a kid getting a hiding ( back when it was legal to beat your kids ) after getting into his dark room and having a real good time with all the cool stuff...
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    1956 Lark +.20 bore - piston ring search

    I dunno if this helps but there a lot of 2 5/8" rings about , mostly for 4 strokes but that might not matter as long as they are the right thickness , a wee wizz with a dremel to make piston ring peg reliefs ..........maybe
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    What brand of Cotton socks are still good quality ?

    O M fn G ! socks ? well this is a 1st . I dunno what inspires you cyclops but dont stop takin it :LOL:. Im good for socks , a pair lasts twice as long for me as they are ambidextrous , its shoes that are the issue coz I gotta buy a pair and throw out the right one . Been thinkin tho , if I...
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