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  1. Boomyal

    Smart Tabs-Preliminary Report-Installation.

    Just received my new trim tabs. I'll start out with my one complaint. May be a minor one but it bothers my sense of balance.<br /><br />THE BRACKETS THAT MOUNT ON THE TRIM TABS SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE IN A LEFT AND RIGHT VERSION. Even though the tabs are a good value for what I hope they will do...
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    Rant Rant Rant !!!

    For 5 years now, each mid October, we have taken a troop of Boy Scouts to Tillamook Bay for crab fishing. There was no fishing license required to to this.<br /><br />This year the Oregon legislature has authorized a licence for crab fishing. Now we have to pay $9.00, per 14 y/o or older...
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    How biga hole should I drill???

    Is there a correct ratio of pilot hole size to lag bolt diameter when drilling holes in fresh timber? I'm getting ready to re-drill the motor mount holes in my pretty new motor mount stringers. I've run many a lag bolt into timber before and never really given a lot of thought to this aspect...
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    Autolite 24 or 25?

    I'm getting my new stroked 302 (now 331 cid) ready for the boat. I'm running an appropriate cam w/ comp promagnum roller rockers, a 4 bbl holley with Edelbrock performer manifold and a stock mechanical advance distributor with a Pertronix II and Flame thrower coil.<br /><br />I'm not sure what...
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    Starting Problem?***Final Update***

    My son's '87 2 liter 4 cylinder TBI injected engine is experiencing morning starting problems. I removed the air filter to watch the injector as he cranks it and it appears to be delivering appropriate fuel. I give it a bare whiff of starting fluid and it fires right up but runs kinda rough...
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    Solution! Just in case yer all laying awake at night...

    Well I continued to have problems with my epoxy resin, annoyingly bubbling up. I had been applying it with a roller, from Home Depot, specifically for Epoxies. Of course every time it cured, I'd have pits in the epoxy after sanding off the bubbles.<br /><br />I just put a final coat on my...
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    Ok, it does not work very well!

    Am determined to have a virgin white bilge in my floor resto. I am using epoxy resin, so I can't use gel coat. I was hoping that using White pigment would do the job. So far, after one layer of 10 oz cloth, applied with pigmented resin, plus one additional coat of thickened, pigmented resin...
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    Small bubbles in epoxy resin??

    Several times, now, I have applied epoxy both on CPES pretreated plywood and now over 10 oz cloth. As I apply the resin, it produces lots of small bubbles as if something is off gassing. When the resin cures the bubbles are still there.<br /><br />I just finished putting a layer of cloth over...
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    Ideas for durable waterproof tape?

    I'm looking for ideas to seal my gas tank floor panel to the surrounding floor without making it permanent. The flooring around the gas tank bay will all be screwed and glued and glassed over. The gas tank panel will also be glassed over then counter sunk for screws to affix it over the tank...
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    Ideal minimum temperature for 2lb foam?

    I'm finally a week away from foaming my new floor. Our weather has turned uncharacteristically cool for September days. Normallly we would be in the high 70's to low 80's. All month we've been in the '60's<br /><br />I'm concerned that I might not get adequate expansion at these temperatures...
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    Is Galveston expecting any .....

    ....effects from Ivan? Don't know if I've seen Mr. and Mrs. Ladyfish post recently.
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    Interesting headline for our Progressive friends....

    KERRY POLL RANK LOWER THAN DUKAKIS, JESSE JACKSON, MARTHA STEWART, PUTIN <br /><br /> http://drudgereport.com/
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    Thickening resin for Biaxial tape?

    I am preparing to lay biaxial tape over my motor mount stringers. I have routed a good radius as the top cap of the mount turns down to the bilge wall. I am also going to let the tape run up the up the transom and the forward bilge bulkhead wall to reinforce the motor mount joints to same.<br...
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    I hate Marine Tex! (rant)

    Out of all the different stuff I've been using, Marine Tex, is by far, the most expensive, the messiest and the hardest to mix in small quantities. Anyway, at least I hope it is as tough as it is messy. It is almost impossible to mix accurately in small quantities. I hope this tank repair...
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    Applying CPES to floor edges.

    Just thought I'd pass on great technique for getting the edges of new plywood flooring well saturated with CPES.<br /><br />I used a four ounce squeeze bottle that came with a hair dye kit (not mine). It works great. It allows perfect and neat control while flooding the edges to saturation. No...
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    A John Kerry update!

    "CLINTON TELLS KERRY FROM HOSPITAL BED: STOP TALKING ABOUT VIETNAM"<br /><br /> http://drudgereport.com/ <br /><br />Duh!!! If he needed Clinton to tell him this (which apparently he does), he is hardly the kind of leader this country needs, regardless of his political ideology. Kerry was even...
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    John Kerry's desperation.

    I cannot believe that John Kerry is holding a midnight rally on the nite of the oppositions convention.<br /><br />He is now droning on about his vietnam experience, health care, sending jobs out of the country and how we are running out of oil. It's absolutely pathetic.
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    If the Great Deliberative Unwashed.......

    ....(undecided, that is) stumbled upon Arnold Schwarzenegger tonight, at the Republican convention, it will undoubtedly be the last nail in John Kerry's coffin. He gave an awesome speech.<br /><br />For one quote: <br /><br />“To my fellow immigrants listening tonight, I want you to know how...
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    Calling all old Paint & Body guys! LubeDude?

    Oh, btw...did not intend to exclude current tradesmen.<br /><br />The time has come to use a wheel on the , oh, not too bad home brew paint job, for my son's resurrected Pontiac Sunbird. As ya'll may recall, we did a base coat/ clear coat metallic paint job in our garage after we did the...
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    Ok, how do you measure....

    .....the components for mixing a small amount of Marine Tex. They don't give the stuff away so I do not want to mix the whole two oz container for a tablespoon of material. The instructions only allow a 10% variation and I cannot see a reasonable way to measure out 5 parts of paste and one...
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