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  1. Boomyal

    USB 2.0?

    How can you tell what version of USB a computer has?
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    Steering cable lubrication?

    What gives? My factory manual clearly shows a xerk fitting on the steering cable a few inches from it's terminating fitting at the back of the transom. This is for a '76 Merc 888 setup. I can follow the cable sheath right up to the metal end of the cable and can find no such fitting. I think...
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    Hey SBN! You still snowed?

    Referring to this statement in 'Owner Groups'; As we go along more will be added. With the new switch over to the new boards, our time is caught up in getting all the bugs worked out of the new system, but rest assured that as soon as that is done then we will get more listed. Yer gettin...
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    PCI ethernet card driver for WIN 2K

    I reached into my ditty bag for a PCI Ethernet card for my Daddy's computer so that I can get a lot of the updates done before I have to take it back to his dial-up connection. Win 2k wants a driver for the card and I do not know how to get it. I do not know what the brand is and it is a pain...
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    Is Windows 2k a plug and play OS?

    I saw something in the bios re"plug and play disabled. Indeed after loading Win2k, it only has 16 bit color for the monitor resolution so it will only display 640x8??. I didn't want to try to load any drivers for my monitor because I will be taking it back to my Dads to hook up to all his...
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    Changing the Partition size in Win 2K setup? **BINGO**

    I am trying to reload windows 2k on my daddy's machine. It has a 40 gb hardrive and I want to divide it in half. I am in setup and at the screen that allows me to create a partition size. Currently it is showing the whole harddrive size with a white highlited number. The instructions are "to...
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    Gimbal Bearing Lubricant?

    If it really does require a special grease, I guess you buy it in a tube and have to dedicate a lube gun to it?
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    Anyone else like Andre Rieu?

    I took my 96 y/o daddy (in a wheelchair) to see him at the Rose Garden, in Portland OR last Saturday nite. I've watched him with admiration many a time on TV, but this live performance was like a day at DisneyLand. He and his orchestra were incredible. In the last picture were 3 tenors from...
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    Refresh me on the Verdict. OD up or Down....

    ...for it's winter rest? I recall that it was easier on the bellows to be stored in a neutral position. Am I recalling correctly or does it not matter. In any event I would wrap the prop to keep the water out of the lower unit.
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    Spin-on fuel/water seperator cartridge?

    Do you think that NAPA or WallyWorld would carry these. I don't relish paying 9$ for one at the local Boater's World.
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    Reloading Win2K?

    My daddy's P4-1.7 ghz unit has gone whacko. I'm gonna reload his operating system. I think he gets all gummed up with yada yada ware. When I insert the Windows CD, will it give me the opportunity to partition the drive. I want to give him a C and D drive so if this happens again he'll have...
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    Fiberglass layup part project***March 29-Doghouse primered!****

    I thought that this would be of general interest. I am imbarking on my second fiberglass part making project. Ya'll might remember my first ever project which was a water deflecter shield for the gas tank bay of my Gulfstream. My current project is a drink holder for the front of the engine...
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    Time to ask of all you fine Mercruiser Experts.

    This is one of those better late than never kind of questions. As ya'll know I have recently joined the black anchor crowd and want to know if there are anythings beyond the basic common sense that I should know. How do Merc One outdrives hold up behind the most awesome power of a Ford 302...
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    Oregons widely accepted liberal mouthpiece rag,

    the Oregonian, just endorsed a Republican for Governor. They have not done so since 1952. The two leading candidates, incidentaly have been running neck and neck in the polls. What the hey? I thought the next two years were going to be a run away for the Dems. The truth is that even the...
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    Air America Files Chapter 11, but I thought....

    ....the libs said that AA was doing just fine? Well IMHO, it was just about the same as the credibility of everything else they say. I hope a lot of Libs lost a ton of money trying to support a bankrupt (pun intended) platform. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15249280/?GT1=8618
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    The Dems are desperate. Here's my prediction.

    The 2008 Presidential ticket will be John McCain vs a very reluctant Hillary Clinton. She will get her socialism uncerimoniously rammed where the lite never shines. There are no other potential Democratic candidates. Come election time Hillary's numbers will be in the dirt but out of...
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    Merc 888/898 (Merc 1 or Merc R outdrive?) anode question.

    Is the bolt that hold the anode steering tab on supposed to come all the way out of the hole you put the allen wrench into? It seems that the bolt might have been installed before the upper and lower housings were mated. But maybe it is just a corrosion issue that keeps the bolt from being...
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    Who'da thunk! Calif. court hands defeat to same-sex marriage

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15146903/ They just unwound that little bit of liberal warped-logic that banning gay marraige discriminates against those of the same sex persuasion. They affirmed that until the Legislature states otherwise, the definition of Marraige is the same today as it was...
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    Ok, I'll be the first.

    The pic is of me at Lake Shasta this early August. I'm a bit proud, being 59, and not having skied in a bunch of years. Whoopee, I can still do it, but I paid the price the next day. I need to do it more often but I have not developed a family boat driver that I trust to tow me. Maybe some...
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    Vacumm forming for laid up parts?

    Anyone have experience with using vacumm to secure laid up fiberglass. I am trying to make a part that is difficult to keep the impregnated glass fibre up against the plug. If so, what would you use as a vacumm bag?
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