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I basically built this one. https://www.avdweb.nl/popular/spotwelder/diy-spot-welder However, this was a number of years ago and I'm not sure how much support he offers now. I didn't use his board. I drew up my own circuit board and had some made but used his software program to operate it. I'm very good with electronics and design but I'm not a programmer. Only very basic Arduino. Sucker works great but I see he no longer offers his board, and while I had to order 10 boards to get 1, I ain't making somebody else one. You can find all kinds of DIY battery spot welders but where you have to be careful is a lot of them depend on your skill and practice. You will burn a hole through one in a heartbeat with most of them. As for smaller deep cycles, I don't know of one. The are normally group 24 - 31 which are pretty much all the same height.

I'm the first to admit, I'm not a Mercury guy. However, I just happened to have just recently rebuilding this same motor. If I remember right, there are only two sensors that make the alarm buzzer go off. One is the temp sensor and the other is the Oil level sensor. I don't remember there being a sensor for the oil injection. Doing a little research, I found the Oil level sensor is notorious for causing this problem. The float separates from then sensor so the sensor stays at the bottom, making it look like it's out of oil. There is a guy on youtube that has a bush fix that works and seems to be a fairly permanent fix. He cuts it loose from the tank, using a fine strand of wire from stranded wire and wires the float to the sensor and glues it back on. Might be worth check it out. Before doing this, you might want to take an ohm meter and check the sensor to make sure that is the problem. There's always the possibility of a short or the temp sensor being bad. Again, and ohm meter will easily let you check those.

Yep, actually there was one more bigger than these. I guess as for the display case/cases, I guess it's time I try dragging out some of this framing equipment I have and see if it still works. If I'm willing to mix moldings and not try to go with the same kind on all of them, I've probably got enough molding. No way I would have enough of all the same kind though, That's probably 60 - 80 feet or so, a healthy chunk of change if I have to buy it. I'll have to see if Larson Juhl will still sell to me whole sale if I got that much. Then it's if I just want to mount each piece on a sued mat or cut recesses for each one, that will be a ton of work. I have some other pieces I have been putting off framing but I guess it's time to do those also. I will make some more authentic looking handles for some of the pieces. The wife is also thinking she might want to do a display in an antique bow front cabinet. Gonna be her call on how it gets displayed. I guess I can make one of my very authentic looking Native American style flutes and place in with them if she goes with the bow front.

Oh, and he also gave me this. I saw it sitting on a table and commented, that's a nice knife. He said it's yours.

Several months ago a friend of my wife passed away. The other day, her husband told her aunt to have my wife stop by in the next time we were in town. We went by there this morning after I had some stitches taken out of my arm. This is what he wanted to give her and sent her home with. He said he was about to go into and assisted living facility, she had always admired these and wanted her to have them

I actually have about a dozen or more spincast I bought off a clearance table at BPS. We happen to have a catalog distribution center near by and they have tables full of returns and what have you at tremendous discount prices. They had the Zebco Omega's two or three different sizes, some Daiwa Gold cast and a couple others similar type reels all for $10 each, so I load up about a dozen of the Omega's in different sizes and couple of each of the other, larger reels. At the time a friend had talked me into doing some crappie fishing with him, so I figured this would make good reels to troll for crappie with. This probably 10 or more years ago. Never did go crappie fishing. As for a good Zebco, my wife keeps going back to a couple of 33 Classics I bought her about the time they first came out. These actually have some ball bearings and metal housing, like it was there attempt to make a better reel. Now, it they are good, bad, or indifferent, I don't know. I know she always has a hard time getting catfish in over a couple of pounds.

Sitting on the patio and the first humming bird I've seen in a month showed up. Actually we saw three of them, one at a front feed and a couple at the back feeders. One was the Ruby Throated, the other two were a lot smaller and darker.

That's where you haven't trained them right. My wife knows better than say anything about what I spend, just as I usually say nothing about what she spends, until she does something like paying $1,000 for a dishwasher, just to give it away and replaces it with another $1,100 one three years later because she doesn't like it. Sometimes, if she happens to be with me and I buy a new $200 - $400 rod or reel, she might comment, "do you really need another one" and I just tell her I would be buying it if I didn't think so. If one of us is going to be spending enough that it might impact our free spending for a few months, we will discuss it, as a formality, but we usually buy it anyway.

Yep, when you are young and tough, you don't think things you do then will have the consequences that can have later in life. I have annual Ophthalmologist exams of my right eye, because of spots that could turn cancerous. I go tomorrow morning the have the stiches removed from having my seventh skin caser cut out. Two of those have been melanomas, and have probably had a couple dozen precancerous ones frozen off. I also have to have a full body search every year for melanomas since having the first one.

My kids and granddaughter were brought up fishing Shimano bait casters. At 7 years old, my granddaughter was using a Curado B101. I also didn't let them swap hands with the reel, so they cast with dominate hand and wind with the other. My son still fusses about that one. He complains every time he sees a great deal on a reel and they are almost always right handed, which he is, but he was brought up using a left handed bait caster. I mentioned this in another topic but if you pull off a casting length of line, and then put electrical tape around the spool, then wind the line back on, they don't get back lashes. If they cast it straight into the ground, they might get a small one but very easy to get out since it can only go a couple of turns deep.

Lake Sinclair GA, is full of docks and a lot of people use them to slingshot a jig under them. They hold the button, pull the jig back until there's plenty of tension and let the jig go and button just behind it. Get the timing right and sends it way further than you could ever hope to pitch something. Of course they do this at night time around the lighted docks. I guess they are like me and would never want to get caught fishing with a spincast.

Can't answer that one yet. It hasn't been fished with, and I'm scared if I walk out in the yard, someone might see me with it. I actually made her carry it out of BPS. I did notice last night while checking it out, it has a very fast line retrieval speed. I think I saw it was something like 29 inches per turn and feels very smooth. That's ungodly fast for your average Zebco. I remember way back when, Woo Daves attributed winning a BASS tournament using a Zebco 33. Using it to flip his lure way back under overhanging brush that he couldn't cast under any other way.

What you are probably running into is the aerodynamics of the lure. A heavy lure that starts the reel to spinning super fast, but the lure is slowing down way faster than the reel. The fact that you are side arming it leads me to believe you are probably using more of a throwing motion instead of a whipping motion, which is not a good way to cast one. The wrist and rod tip should be doing the casting, not your arm. A little trick I have everybody I teach how to use a bait caster that saves tons of frustration. Pull off as much line as you can possibly cast on your longest cast, plus a few feet extra, then wrap piece of black electrical tape around the spool, then wind back in over the tape. This eliminates backlashes. If you do somehow get one, it's only a couple of turns deep and very easy to get out. Do this until you have your technique perfected.

Yes the real is actually quite heavy, so I'm surprised she didn't complain about that, but that will probably come the first time she uses it any length of time. Yes, the combo is actually balanced very well, that was one of the reasons I went ahead and got the combo. Center of balance is just about dead center on the reel.

Never thought I would see the day I would pay $150 for a Zebco Combo, but did yesterday. My wife refuses to use bait casters or spinning reels, which I have a couple dozen high end ones. I've bought good closed face spincast reels in other brands and she always has something to complain about with them. She keeps going picking up a couple old Zebco 33's I bought her 50 years ago because that's what her daddy always gave her to fish with, and then complains every time she looses a fish bigger than 12 inches with them. We were in BPS yesterday and had her trying different reels, All she wanted to pick up were the Zebco's so I ended up getting he one of the Bullet Combo's. I was going to get just the reel, but she liked the rod also, so even though I have dozens of good rods, I ended up getting her the combo, just so she couldn't complain about it. Playing with it a little last night, the thing actually feels fairly descent. Guess I will see the next time we go catfishing.

For a NON INFLATEABLE I use the 100mph. Until recently, I've always had fast boats. I would recommend one that fits and comfortable or you will have a tendency not to put it on. Especially when it's hot.

Must have not been fully awake when I read the heading on the post the first time, but I'll leave this anyway. That's kinda like asking what's the best ice cream. It depends on what you want to spend on initial cost and then required maintenance. Mustang's HIT systems is probably one of the best but at the same time, the most expensive when it can cost upwards of close to $100 every few years to keep it up to date. However, with it, I've never had one to go off on it's on from being stored in a warm, humid area. The next popular models have the auto inflate system that deploys within seconds of being in contact with the water. Those only cost a few bucks to update every few years, but they can self deploy when in a warm humid area. I've had that to happen a couple of times stored in the boat. Then you have the manual deploy models. I consider those more of a safety device for fly fishermen or people that a likely to step into deep water. If ejected from a fast moving boat, there is nothing saying you will be conscious to pull the manual deploy mechanism. You don't have to worry about it self deploying if you happen to trip or fall down in the water like the auto inflate models will. From there, it's mostly based on size and style.

MN Fisher, I'm with you. I don't care for all the conversation and BS. My routine now is, clip a #5 guide on, buzz it all over, tapper around the ears and back of my neck and send me on my way. If they can do that in five minutes and send me on my way, I'm a happy camper. I have a girl at Great Clips that does just that. The haircut cost $12 and I give her a $5 tip. The bad part is, they have such a high turnover, she may not be there the next time.

Twice retired. Retired from the Air Force in 1996. Retired industrial equipment mobile service tech in 2011. My specialty was electric equipment but repaired any and everything the customer wanted to pay $85 and hour for me to work on. In the Air Force I was in an electronics carrier field and got my degree in electronics, but did it as a hobby before I joined. Spent most of my carrier in classified, special duty assignments. Even went through Ranger School and trained with the Special Forces some. Before going into the AF, I was the maintenance superintendent at a large practical board plant. Traveled all over the state repairing hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for several years before that. Note: No where in that resume does it say Boat mechanic or Outboard Motor mechanic. I have never worked as either of those.

I keep about a 1/2 dozen feeders out. Most of ours are the Ruby throated but there are usually several others also. However this year when they migrated into my area, they seemed to have migrated on through. I had several visiting the feeders early in the migration but now, I haven't seen a one in almost a month. My neighbor, who also generally has numbers of them, hasn't had any at her feeder in almost a month. I'm hearing this same thing for others as well. I keep a bunch of Blue Jays, red birds (Cardinals) Blue birds and several other species constantly feeding from the tray feeder I have out. The Blue birds have their own mill worm feeder. It's kind of funny, when there are no peanuts in it for the Blue Jays, there are a couple of them that will get in a tree near me and start raising h***. I'll go put nuts in it for them, they shut up, go get some and on their way for a little while, but I keep a pretty good stream of them coming and going.

I usually don't buy their power tools, actually, any kind of their tools. Gave it a trial run last night. The charger still got way too hot. That generator puts out a lot of heat, and the charger was mounted in the back and just above the generator to where it was almost touching it. Even with a small fan, I could only run the generator about 15 - 20 minutes before the charger was getting too hot to hold my hand on it and would have to shut it down. Today, I relocated the charger to inside the boat in a vented storage compartment in the back. Got it completely out of the battery area with the generator. Now I will see if it's all the heat from the generator making it so hot or using it as a power supply to constantly feed the batteries. It may just be I'm overworking the charger and might have to rethink things. If all else fails, I will just build me a power supply that will do what I want. I've already spent a bunch on lights, I would hate to have to turn around and buy 120VAC lights like some of the drop downs or home security lites just to run directly off the generator. My main concern with that is, water, lot of metal, and 120VAC going all over it, all being blended together don't make for a situation I would be very comfortable with.

Years ago I used 5200 to seal the bolts on a jack plate. About a year later I removed that jack plate to install a different one. In doing so, I also removed several large chunks of fiberglass from the transom. The other jack plate covered them, but I still didn't like the idea of it ripping off the fiberglass.

The lowest DB level in a 1,000 watt or so unit was the main thing I was shopping for. The Honda was supposed to be a few DB quiter but $1,000 vs $400 made me try this HF model. Figure it's not going to be used much and hopefully it doesn't come back to bite me. I'm not much of a fan of this cheap Harbor Freight junk. I've got a small 2,500 Watt Honda I could have made to fit back there but when I use it camping I have an additional muffler and a 100' #10 drop cord I use on it to get it away from us so it's not so loud. Definitely didn't want to listen to that all night in a boat. My first brain fart was to take one of the pedestal seats out and sit it one the front, but with these newer LED lights, I can get plenty of illumination and not need a power substation to run it. Tonight, she only wants to stay until about midnight so I figured this would be a good time to test it. For no longer than that, I can run on just battery with no problems, so if it doesn't work out, it won't spoil the fishing trip. Running it about an hour with everything on in the driveway, the charger was getting a little warm in that compartment, so I'm adding a small 12V fan to blow on the MK330, just for a little better cooling of it. All I have to do now is make sure I don't make the dump mistake of trying to trim the motor up. The cowling ain't gonna fit in that hole with that generator sitting there.

Since the wife is all set on night fishing, been working the past couple of weeks rigging the boat for that. Added about 12,000 lumens of lights shinning down, green led lights around the interior, radio/CD and 200 Watts of power, (I hate music, she enjoys it, you see who wins). With all this running off batteries, 3 group 27's I figured they might need some help on a long night. So, I added a generator to run the MK330 charger so it can help out. I think the battery compartment is about full now. I also found out the generator must also have a CO sensor, because it would shut off after about a minute. I had to add an exhaust pipe to vent it outside the compartment. The generator is quite enough you can't hear it in the front half of the boat. Only sitting on the very back seat do you really notice it.

Dave Bush is getting that out of a 3.3 V6 Evinrude and it weighs less the 500 pounds.