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  1. Boomyal

    Avatar test

    The question is, will it work?
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    How long to let plywood dry?

    How long should it take to let newly purchased AB exterior grade plywood dry sufficiently to sucessfully administer penetrating epoxy?
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    How long to let plywood dry?

    How long should it take to let newly purchased AB exterior grade plywood dry sufficiently to sucessfully administer penetrating epoxy?
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    Hey BillP, it's your turn to chime in!

    ...thinning epoxy resin. I'm getting ready to purchace the plywood for my floor. AB, I think is the preferred non-marine premium grade plywood. I want to soak it in the very most penetrating epoxy resin without spending $75.00 a gallon to do it (cpes). I know that it has been talked about...
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    Question for Admin-iboat's refresh speed?

    Invariably when I use the forum, late at nite, 11:30 pm PDT, changing between screens occurs at the speed of cold molasses. It just took 1.5 minutes to post a reply.<br /><br />While I was waiting I opened another browser and went to an unrelated forum. It worked at its usual lighting fast...
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    Life's strange twists!

    If this doesn't beat all. Who'd suspect, with all the differences, that George W Bush and John Kerry are distant cousins. :rolleyes: <br /><br /> http://msn.ancestry.com/landing/strange/bush4/tree.htm
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    Merc 140, dieseling?

    My neighbor just took his boat out yesterday. First time this year. I had just helped him check and set his timing to 6 deg BTDC. <br /><br />Would this be caused by carbon build up and if so, would it be corrected by using sea foam?
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    Hey! SprayPaintDude. aka LubeDude

    Thought you might be interested in the extent of the structural damage to the little Sunbird. Once I peeled off all of the damaged outerwear the red arrows show the minor bending on the terminating frame/bumper bar brackets. A three and a four pound sledge hammer straightened everything back...
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    Upgrading OS on a laptop?

    I have a Toshiba laptop with a 337 MHZ PII MMX with a 192 mb of ram, running Windows 98. My wife uses it at her kitchen desk. For her birthday I just bought her an MP3 player/recorder and it says you need Windows 98SE.<br /><br />Can I upgrade the OS from your typical Win 98SE upgrade CD or...
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    1988 Pontiac Sunbird! ***Repair underway***

    Has anyone had any experience with these little disposable autos. Any opinions are welcome. I have a chance to obtain one, with 103k miles on it. The paint is dull but all there. The interior is clean. The engine compartment is a bit greeeeezy. It is an automatic but does not have all the...
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    Federal Withholding Question! 20 Y/O Daughter

    My twenty year old daughter just got her first partime job. As she is a student living at home, we will still claim her as a dependent. She will make a total of about $5000.00 this year. I assume that she will not have to pay any Federal income tax on that amount of income? If that is the...
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    Rubber couplers-Flywheel to I/O drive shaft.

    Does Merc use such a thing? A dampened bonded rubber coupler with a Ford crank bolt pattern. I'm thinking about modifying an OMC 800 direct splined coupler to a dampened one. Need to be able to find one so I can see if it would work. <br /><br />Also, what would be the correct term for the...
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    FYI-Surfing web sites.

    I might be a day late and a dollar short here but I just made a discovery that relieves years of frustration. That is the ability to insure that that a new link opens in a new page.<br /><br />When opening a new web page, from a link on the original page, it would appear to be capricious as to...
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    John Mc Cain for Democratic Veep?

    I know that John McCain, often, cannot decide which side of the fence he's on but I think this proposal shows the absolute desperation of the Democratic Party!<br /><br...
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    FYI-OMC I/O True Course Steering.

    For any of yous out there with stringer mount OMC's, that use the Tru Course steering, you might want to lubricate the steering cables.<br /><br />My boat is 29 y/o. I have always kept the two intermediate housing steering shaft bushings well lubricated. In spite of this I've felt that it was...
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    Filling screw holes with Marine Tex.

    I will be filling 10 3/16" screw holes in my transom. The glass is about a 1/4" thick and they are all below the waterline.<br /><br />Should I chamfer the holes before filling or should I just make sure that the threaded sides of the existing holes are clean and slap in the putty?
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    Laptop keyboard problem. Ya'll can breath deep now!

    My daughters laptop was just infected with a commercial virus called Sandbox. It loads up all kinds of programs and toolbars and plagues you silly with popups. I got all that stuff deleted but now I cannot type anything. Everything else works ok. There must be some windows xp function or...
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    Intermittant problem with text writing.

    Occasionally, both here on the forum and in Outlook Express my text writing goes into overwrite. That is if I go to insert a word or correct a word, instead of the previously written text moving away as I insert, the new word or letter just overwrites existing words.<br /><br />It seems there...
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    Are we (the USA) following the pattern......

    .....of other great societies throughout history, that were eventually overrun by their enemies? You know that bin Laden is rolling on the floor with glee over the recent self deprication of the US.<br />I thought the following to be an interesting lesson from history.<br /><br />
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    Questions for NautiJohn

    I'm contemplating adding smart tabs in the course of my restoration job. I have two issues I would like resolved. <br /><br />One is that at moderate speed (tubing etc) with full passenger load the boat rythmically porpoises. I have no adjustable trim but I have played with the shims in the...
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