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    Removing paint

    Is there a way of removing paint without harming the original gel coat underneath? In some places the white paint is worn of and I can see the nice original gold metal flake.
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    Only in America...

    Borrowed from another forum... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ten humorous anecdotes about living in America: 1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2. Only in America......are there handicap...
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    parts ID

    Re: parts ID Out of the last 3 pics two are some kind of electric magnet, maybe the electric shift for an OMC??? The last pic have no idea. Here's another angle Here's one of the prop shafts.
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    parts ID

    I have a few boxes of parts and some of them I have no idea what they are... Some others I'm just curious as to what year they might be from. Can anybody tell me what motor this fits? And then I have these that I don't even know what they are... I'd hate to scrap parts that may be hard...
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    What's a heart attack like..

    A couple of days ago my neighbor was talking to his cousin over the phone and in mid sentence just said he didn't feel well and... nothing. My neighbour called 911 and drove to his cousins place just a few milles down the hwy to find him dead on the floor, 68 years old. (I don't find that old...
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    __it happens!

    Last night i found a pic on the net that I had posted on an off-roading forum a number of years ago. Me finding out that TSL thornbirds were useless... and my wife to the rescue :facepalm:
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    What do you pull your boat with?

    Re: What do you pull your boat with? it does the job... :D
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    rotted transom... just wondering?

    I picked up a boat just for the motor, it has a healthy 260 mercruiser in it. But I'm wondering what could have hapened if someone had bought it to put on the water as it is. I mean, it didn't look bad at all, but there's no wood left in the transom. On an outboard the weight and torque of the...
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    from I/O to outboard

    Re: from I/O to outboard Here's the donor for the sbc 350 the outdrive was seized but after I pulled it off the motor started and ran like a dream! I got this boat in trade for the 25 merc xd that I had got in trade for the original OMC sterndrive from the deck boat.
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    A new way to fly!

    The human dolphin http://www.wimp.com/humandolphin/ for those who don't understand French.... 100 hp = 10 feet and 150 hp = 20 feet!
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    Shop tools definitions

    I hadn't seen this one in a while and figured it was still good for a chuckle... DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted...
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    Jacuzzi jet drive, the good, the bad and the ugly...

    Re: Jacuzzi jet drive, the good, the bad and the ugly... Well, I ended up getting the jet drive and decided it was going in the sea-sprite deck boat. All that left to do is find a BBC to power it and I know just where to get one...
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    what did you get yourself for x mas?

    I got me a jacuzzi jet drive for my deck boat...
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    Noisy river tonight...

    Re: Noisy river tonight... Unless I get me one of these...
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    Noisy river tonight...

    It's -15*C (or 5*F for the lower 48) tonight. I'm used to the sounds of the ice cracking as the pressures build up on a lake but the river is so different and even though it not my first winter here the sounds are still keeping me awake! I couldn't even begin to describe the sounds I'm hearing...
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    It's a boat, a camper, a trailer...

    It's definately unusual! http://sudbury.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-boats-watercraft-powerboats-motorboats-2008-Float-Trailer-Boat-Trailer-in-one-with-60-HP-Merc-W0QQAdIdZ339355451
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    prop ID, help.

    Is there some site somewhere that somebody could just enter the numbers off of a prop to find out what it goes on? A buddy of mine just dumped a bunch of parts on me and there's a 14" aluminum prop, 15 spline, # 1470 on one side and 18172 on the other.
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    The divorced...

    Budy out for a boat ride after the divorce...
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    Holiday humour

    Merry Christmas... Doh!!!
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    More projects...

    If I'm sitting around not doing anything, it's not because I don't have anything to do. (did that make sense?) It's been really mild here the past 2 days and the snow melted with all the rain so between rainshowers I was checking what needs done on the winder and other things that need to be...
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