Way2slow

Loctite makes a very good silicon that can be submerged. I used to for aquariums. ANYTIME, you make a hole in your hull, put silicon in it, before the screw and again on top of the screw.

Getting old! I've already done that, now I'm just getting "older". Couple of tips on the eye surgery, been there, done that on my right eye, After that one, I figure I'll wait until a go blind in my left eye before I have it done. I've always had way better than average vision, I'm talking 10/10 and 5 with both eye open. At 65 I felt I was starting to need glasses, the ophthalmologist said no, I was just starting to see the way the rest of the world sees, my vision was 20/20. When he suggested it was time to have the cataracts removed, I decided to do the right eye first, since I'm left handed, left eye dominate and shoot left handed. They said I had a slight stigmatism in my right eye. My insurance and Medicare would pay for the surgery and the lens but not the $1,500 extra they wanted for the lens to correct the stigmatism. I said to heck with that, I've always had good vision. DUMB move! Now I have a permanent slight double vision in my right eye. Corrective lens in glasses are supposed to be able to fix that, but I guess they haven't found the right lens yet. Another aggravation is dry eye after the surgery. I was bothered with that and was supposed to be able to drops for that. It seemed the more I used the drops, the more often I had the problem. I quit using them and it took a while but now I rarely have a problem and when it does, it doesn't last long. That has been my experience with it, I hope yours is better.

I guess you could refer this as the four wheeler generation. We didn't have those things back when I was more serious about hunting. Today, the truck is used to get the four wheeler to the woods, if the roads are not muddy. Then they just get to the muddy road. In the late 60's and 70's and 80's when there were quail to hunt, I would sometimes cover 20 to 30 miles. Even if I had a four wheeler, I wouldn't want to go through loading and unloading it every time I went to another field.

I'm amazed you could find someone that know how to cut hair. I want never forget the first time my wife talked me into getting my hair cut at one of these chain things at a mall. I sat down, this girl puts that cover thing on me and asked what number. I asked what was she talking about, what number? She said what number blade guide do you use. I told her I've always gone to a real barber that didn't need training wheels on their clippers, I had no idea what number she needed. I don't know of a real barber in any of the three towns I usually go to. They have all gone.

Yep, I was just informed we are going again Saturday night. That I was told, not asked if I wanted to.

I have the Echomap 7SV and 9SV, both with the GT54 transducer. I've use the 7 one time the other night and I have no complaints. I was told if you were not going to be fishing salt water and deeper or trying to side scan more than 40 - 50, there's very little difference. Not having ever used the GT56 transducer, I don't know, but I was more than happy with the images I got with the GT54 transducer. I have the first generation Lowrance HDS 10 and 7 with side scan and I think the Garmin's images were better than it.

It's just math. Like the 3 guys that pay $7 each for a room = $21 The inn keepers husband says that's too much and give the janitor $5 to take back to them. He figures $5 is going to be hard to divide among three people so he pockets $2 and gives each of them back $1. So, they only had to pay $6 each for the room. Now, since they each got back $1, so they only paid $6 each. 3 time $6 is $18. The janitor only kept $2, so if they only paid $18 and the janitor kept $2, that only equals $20. Where did that other dollar go. Another mind game you can play with math. Write these numbers down on a piece of paper, then cover them with another piece of paper and slide it down one row at the time, having them add them out loud as you slide it down. 98% of them are going to get the wrong answer. They are going to answer 5000. Some will actually argue with you about it. It also shows why you should be careful about doing math in your head. 1000 40 1000 30 1000 20 1000 10

Trust me, I know all too well. However, every time I think about some of those vehicles I had and start getting depressed. I think about a friend of my oldest brother we used to run around with. Back in 1966 He traded a 300SL for a 427 AC Cobra, which eventually traded for something else..

Believe it or not, it was PINK. Funny thing there. We drove by the Ford dealership when they were unloading two Pink Pinto's. My wife and I laughed saying who in the world do they think is going to buy those. Well, low and behold, the gas crunch started and I was looking for something that got better gas mileage. Since a friend of mine owned the Ford Dealership, I paid him a visit since NO BODY was making deals on economy cars, they couldn't keep them on the lot. Dave, my friend, said I've got a Pinto I will make you a deal on. I said "I hope you're not talking about one of those pink one's I saw them unloading" Yep!. Sticker price on the car was $3,200. He sold it to me for $2,400. Back then it was only a few hundred bucks to get one painted, and I figured I could get it painted and still come out way ahead. When I went in the AF in 75, my mother liked the car so I gave it to her. You couldn't sell the thing, nobody was going to buy a pink pinto.

My wife's cars stay new looking. Not to the extreme some mention here, but very clean and shiny. My trucks, I've always owned one and never had a use for a two wheel drive. For many years, when I quail hunted, the dogs ran the fields and I drove. Many times through places I would not even try to walk. In 73, within two weeks of buying a new Ford Bronco, the sides were covered with brush scratches from top to bottom, I had ripped off the right side mirror and ripped a parking brake cable loose from one wheel. I buy them to use them, not to sit some place looking pretty while I'm out busting my butt trying to get around.

No, went from a Hemi Charger to a Boss 302, and I'm actually surprised you knew what a Fiat Dino was. I've had a large number of vehicles through the years I would love to have back today. I will go in order of the cars I've owned 1948 Ford (got it for $10, I was 13), 1953 Ford (was 14) , 1955 Ford , 1956 Chevy, 1929 Model A Ford, 1962 Karman Ghia, 1962 VW, 1969 Charger R/T, 1970 Boss 302, 1966 Bronco, 1972 Pinto, 1973 Bronco, 1972 Chevy Wagon, Fiat 2300, Fiat 850, 1972 Fiat Dino, 1970 Porsche 911E, 1975 Ferrari 308, 1970 Mach 1 Mustang, 1986 Chevy Astro Van, Datsun B310 (while in Sicily), 1986 4WD Toyota Pickup, 1982 Z28 Camaro (for my son in high school) 1993 4WD Toyota Pickup (still have it), 1998 4WD chevy Pickup, 1973 VW Super Beetle Convertible, 2001 Chevy 2500HD 4WD pickup, 2004 New Beetle Convertible, 1 Toyota Camry's and 1/2 dozen Highlanders for the wife. The VW convertibles are the wife's. There a still a few I missed, but as you can see, there are a whole lot I would luv to have back today.

I had the benefit of living through the Muscle car era. I graduated high school in 1966. My first hot rod when I was 16 was a 55 Ford with a 1963 Ford 427 in it. My first production hot rod was the 69 Dodge Charger. I still think one of the prettiest car I ever saw was a red 1958 chevy Impala with the 348 in it, one of my teachers had.

Nope, I had the 69 Charger R/T 426 Hemi. My first and last MOPAR. Traded that one in 1970 for a Boss 302 mustang. Kept that one for five years. When I came out of basic training in the Air Force, went straight to Italy, so I sold it. Got me a 72 Fiat Dino, and the wife a Porsche 911 there.

Ya'll are sick. Big pressure washer, a bottle of Spray Nine, and a large vehicle brush I got from Grainger's many years ago, and I'm done in about 15 minutes. I usually try to do that about twice a year. At least every spring after the pine pollen has quite for sure. Every couple of years, I raise the hood, and hit under there with the pressure washer.

Well, did you make the National Honor Role. That puts the icing on the cake. That was not possible for me. I usually aced every test I took, but was lucky to make a passing grade. I don't think there was more than a couple of times I ever turned in a lick of homework. Never had time to do it. Teachers gave lectures all the time about how it was a waste for me to do so good on test and not do the homework. Actually, I thought college was a lot easier than grade schools. I had somewhat of a photographic memory where I could read a book a couple of times and then when taking written test, I could bring up the page it was on in the book and get the answer. I have always sucked on oral test though. That worked great for me in the military. All there test questions were written word for word right out of the study manuals and I almost aced them. Thus making rank very quickly. I actually got investigated and made to retest one time to prove I wasn't cheating.

I actually used mine for the first time this past weekend. All that bench time I spent going through the manual and learning every feature on the unit sure was helpful. I was perfectly comfortable being able to do what ever I wanted with it. Swapping the side scan from side to side proved to be very helpful also.

You're a month too late. BPS had the Garmin Echomap 93SV with the GT54 transducer on sale for $650. Don't know if that sale will show up again but the Echomap 73SV with GT54 transducer still shows up some at $450. That's almost half price of the ones with the GT56 transducer.

I installed extremely bright led lights, something like about 12,000 lumens (eight of them at 1,500 lumens each) of light under the front, back and on both sides shining down into the water, from the underside of the deck thinking we would draw some crappie and white bass in but that didn't happen. Four dozen minnows and only used about a half dozen, and that was only because we relocated a couple of times, never got a bite with them. After about 11:00 everything got lockjaw and quite biting.

A couple weekends ago, I took the pontoon boat to start breaking the motor in. My wife, granddaughter and her husband went also. They all enjoyed it and suggested to my wife we should go night fishing in it. Did that Saturday night and my wife caught several nice catfish, which we had for supper tonight. It got a little on the chilly side so they were ready to go by 2:00 AM, but they are already planning another trip to just enjoy the lake this coming Sunday. While eating those catfish, (nobody enjoys catfish more than my wife) she is already talking about when the nights are warmer, that's going to be a regular thing to do.

OOOOOpps. Sorry, I forgot the final steps in my math when doing the quick calculation. Figure a 10Ah battery, and you don't want to draw it down to more than 75% discharged makes it a 7.5 Amp hour battery. The voltage is going to be low enough the sonar is probably going to shut down by then, if not before then, anyway. Now, if the Helix 7 is 800 - 900 milliamps, I would just round that off for easy math to 1 amp draw. So, a one Amp draw on 7.5 amps of battery, you should get 7.5 hours of run time if the battery is fully charged and is actually capable of producing 10 Amp Hours. Since your buddies is a Helix 5 and it only has a 600 milliamp draw, that's about 30 percent less that your 7, and he should be getting about 30% more run time. Like I said, the amp hour rating on the battery is when the battery is considered fully discharged, close to 11 VDC. The Helix is most like is not going to operate on a voltage that low, so the lowest voltage it will operate on is going to be it's cutoff point. So, it's sounds like it's probably getting all it can out of the battery. Fully charge the battery and have it tested and see what the actually amp hour capacity is of the battery you have, make sure it's at least a 10 amp hour, it may not be.

The laws of electronics says that's not possible. According to HB, the Helix series draws 600 mA. 10 Ah battery with a 0.6 amp load is only going to last 6 hours. Depending on the condition of the battery, that time is going to vary. A good, new 10 Ah battery may have 12 or 13 amp hours, depending on the brand. If they sit on the shelf very long before being bought, they may only have 9 or 10 Ah.

I just put three new batteries in my pontoon a couple of days ago. I went with a Duracell Deep cycle flooded cell for the cranking, and two 27, AGM's for the TM. I was really wanting to go with group 31's but, I could not find two of the same battery, so I had to settle for the group 27. By the way, Duracell batteries are EastPenn batteries, which are pretty good batteries. I had to join Sam's Club to get the group 27's and they only had three, one after I got mine. Those were the only local ones I could find. Now, to explain why I didn't go with an AGM cranking battery. My motor is a 2009, 90hp, two stroke Mercury. Older motors, and a lot of newer motors, don't have charging systems designed for AGM batteries and can cause damage to the charging system, and possibly damage to the AGM battery. So, no matter how good the AGM's sound, if the motor's charging system is not right for them, they are not a good choice. And yes, they are over priced, but since I had not been using my Javelin much, it spent more time on the maintainer, the on the water. With the MK330 charger I was only getting about two years out of the flooded cells. Batteries like to be cycled regularly. The AGM's would give me three to four years. Which the math does not support buying AGM's. Every two years, you can buy a flooded cell for the same it's going to cost you to buy and AGM every four years. Plus with a flooded cell, you get a good bit more reserve minutes. My wife is loving this pontoon, so it's looking like it may be put in the water a lot more than my bass boat was. My preferred battery is still the Trojan SCS225, but the only place that sold those locally was a battery distribution center that has since changed hands and they only handle the golf cart batteries. Shipping jack the price up too much for me to order batteries.

I know of a lot of places in my neck of the woods that let them eat free if they are in uniform. It's just too bad they can't form and united slow down and do basically nothing for a week and let those that think we don't need them see otherwise.

Yea, if I took you a couple of times, you would either take me back to the ramp fairly quickly or show you how get around in most anything you can imagine. A number of years back, Lake Falcon in south Texas had been down so long, heavy, tall brush had grown up in the back of several channels. Then they had enough rain to actually raise it above full pool. A couple of people had told me the bass had moved back into that stuff but you couldn't get your boat in there to fish it. They were right about the bass having moved back into it, but they were wrong about not being able to get your boat back in there to fish it, I did. The boat looked like my truck after a bird hunting trip after all the brush scratches down the sides, but that was some of the best fishing I have ever had.

I was in Home Depot in San Antonio TX, when I lived out there and a guy walks up and says some name and asked how I had been doing since it had been a while since he had seem me. I just told him " sorry mister but I don't know you and my name is not the one you just said". He started accusing me of trying to prank him, said he had know me too many years for me to pull that one over on him. He had known me long enough to know who I am. Again, I said sorry, but I'm not the guy you know. Then he started getting upset with me. I finally had to just walk off and telling him I was not the guy he's thinking I am. He never did believe me. Another strange happening was when I was living in Italy and the wife and I had gone to Venice for the day so she could do some shopping. A guy walks over and ask if I was Keith. It was a guy I had worked with in Georgia before joining the Air Force. He and his wife was on one of those European tours they had booked and Venice was one of the sites they were visiting. 7,000 miles and billions of people and you meet a guy from your home town.