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  1. MTboatguy

    Well I just went and bought new tires and wheels...

    205/75/14 on white spoke wheels, they are ST tires for my new boat trailer and they are bias ply tires, in reality, how long should I expect these to last, I have been going back and forth on the tire issue for the last couple of weeks and a deal presented itself for two new tires with new...
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    Plastic trailer fenders?

    Been a while since I rebuilt a trailer and I need a set of fenders, saw some yesterday that are plastic, made by Atwood, they claim they are unbreakable and can hold 300 pounds, which is more than what I weigh. Anybody running these and how how they held up for you? Just curious if they are...
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    Glastron Trailers

    Well I bought a glastron boat the other day to get the trailer and dispose of the boat, but for the life of me I can't find the ID plate on the trailer, I know the trailer is a Glastron trailer as well because they used to make their own trailers for their various boats. I was wondering, does...
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    I will never understand....shaking my head in a haze!

    So I go out to put lights on the trailer I bought the other day and start disecting what others have done to this mess! And it is a mess, two pieces of solid house wiring spliced in with electrical tape, three wires in the same spot right behind the truck hook up and I still have no quite...
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    It is amazing what you find in old boats! LOL

    So I buy this old boat the other day, so I can get the trailer, going to tear the fittings off of it and take it to the dump, I am pulling seats out of it last night and run into something I have never seen before! Remove the farthest rear seat bottom and spy what looks like an egg! Pull the...
  6. MTboatguy

    Well this is the week for getting good buys!

    Had not looked at craigslist for a while, click and just as I did, some guy listed a junk boat on a good sealander trailer all for $200 bucks, so found a newer trailer for the Starcraft I bought last weekend, I will be back in the water before you know it! YeHa. Great to see Will win the 500...
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    Anybody have a 16 foot Super Sport Brochure?

    I have been searching for over an hour now, trying to figure out what this 73 16 foot Super Sport Weighs, I am going to be putting it on one of my other trailers and want to make sure the trailer will handle it, I just need the weight of the boat, I already know what the motors weighs, so...
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    Cutting Coil Springs? need some help!

    Hey guys, I have a bit of a pickle I am trying to solve, on the way home yesterday my wife hit a pot hole on our long gravel road and busted a coil spring on the front right hand side of her subaru legacy outback which ended up shredding a tire. She changed the tire without realizing the spring...
  9. MTboatguy

    Well have not been in this section for a while, but I have a new boat!

    Have spent 10 years looking for a Starcraft boat, not just any Starcraft, but I have been looking for a Super Sport Outboard and low and behold, sitting on the side of the road this evening I found this boat, not really a lot of restoration to do on this one, the transom is good, the floor is...
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    Well I am thrilled, made one of my best buys yet!

    Time for a new update, I was on the way home this evening and I spy a boat on the side of my road up to the house and I am looking real hard, it looked like a Starcraft, so I stop and the owner comes out....Turns out is is a 1973 Starcraft 16 Foot Super Sport, 50 horse Evinrude that runs like...
  11. MTboatguy

    Interesting news from the world of NASCAR!

    NEWS: Matt Kenseth to rejoin Roush Fenway Racing, return to NASCAR Cup Series competition in 2018, sources confirm to SB Nation From what I am reading, he will be driving the number 6 for some of the races this year!
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    My New Toy that I built with my own little hands.

    Just playing around with a box of parts I picked up through various deals over the last couple of years and decided to put them together for a run and close retro M16A1 rifle, of course, this one is a semi auto version and it is about a 1972-1975 rendition of one our famous infantry guns. I bet...
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    Is it kosher to gang 240v

    I am just wondering, is it kosher to gang wire 2 240v plugs? I am running a 50 amp breaker through 10/2 wire to my plug on my compressor that is rated at 15 amps on start up and would like to gang another plug on the circuit for my heater that will pull about 21 amps, which comes out to 36 amps...
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    Okay, SHOT Show, Guns, is going on, just found a new one to buy!

    Well I have a lot of guns, I build a lot of guns, but just found a new one, I am going to be picking up real soon, in other words as soon as I can get my hands on one, done deal! Crossman introduced a new air gun today, and not just any airgun! it is a SBR, full auto air gun that shoots 1400...
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    Electrical Question

    Hey guys, I am putting in a 240 volt forced air heater in the shop and what I want to do is wire the plug for it instead of a hard wire, it is a Cadet smaller 5000 watt forced air that I am putting a 30 amp cord on and then would like to wire a home run to the box through a thermostat and then...
  16. MTboatguy

    The screen layout is killing me..!

    No matter what resolution I try, I still can't see much with this big header going across the top of the page? and if I happen to stray a bit to high, then the drop down covers everything up so I don't know where the hell I am, throw in the page up key which is about 4 times bigger than it...
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    LED House Lights....information ....

    Well 6 years ago, Home Depot had a sale on LED bulbs for your home lamps, so we bought a bunch of them and had never had one burn out, that is until just about 10 minutes ago, this one started blinking slowly, then faster and faster and finally just quit! So I guess when your bulbs are getting...
  18. MTboatguy

    I am curious?

    And please don't take this to a political level. But I keep hearing about the hype going on with crypto currency and was wonder, is anybody here playing with it, I am just trying to learn what the heck it is, I have been looking around and it seems like a volatile stock market type thing...
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    Watched this on the local news today.

    Well once again the bad people are out trying to ruin the good peoples holidays! A local couple here the other day had got tired of somebody stealing their packages off their porch when they delivered, so they devised a plan, so they put couple of wireless cameras on their porch that would call...
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    It is bad enough to get non solicited call, but this one takes the cake!

    So I am sitting here this afternoon, wife is making dinner(finally no turkey) and the phone rings, normally I won't answer, but for some stupid reason I did! So this young chipper sounding gal is calling to tell me, they have a great special on having cable TV installed at our home! I proceed...
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