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  2. Worst ride while in a boat?

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    My worst ride was being out with some kids in a thunderstorm. I'd just come out of a small cove when the skys openned up. I only had 2-3 miles in a straight line to get back to the dock but all the wussies in thier bigger boats decided the conditions justified their cutting me off from all directions causing me to stuff my bow a couple times.

    Two of the boys were in front thinking it was fun until I moved back while the third was in the rear with me looking towards the stern from a lounge seat. It was almost funny when he looked down at his dangling feet and saw 3 inches of water sloshing around! Fortunatly I'd sprung the few extra bucks for a higher capacity pump,it it was cleared in a couple minutes. I turned around and went to back to that cove where we circled with some other small craft for about 45 minutes until things calmed down.

    If it was just myself the situation would not have botherred me but I really would not have wanted a head-line "Man kills 3 kids taking boat into heavy water." After we got back I learned one of the mothers had been anxious but the other two having been around boats settled her down by telling her we'd probably tied up somewhere to ride it out.

    My second worst ride was the year my night-vision mostly went away. There are a lot of small islands on my favorite lake and it's easy to confuse them. Things did not look right to me at one point and I cut to idling speed and went to a lighted (numberred for ID) bouy and found I was about a mile away from where I thought I was and had just passed through a small rock field. I gave up night riding until I got a chart-plotter that included that lake.

  3. somebody is breaking into my boat.

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    Many after-market car alarms use a current sensor as a trigger. You can get one of these for under $100. You would need to wire it to your battery and add a ciruit like the equivalent of a test light somwhere down line from your main switch, to trip the current sensor. The alarm would reset after 15 minutes so you your batery will not run down as much.

    If you have a fog-horn you cold also add a switched circuit for that so when they hit the main switch the intruder will get blasted. Instinctive reaction would be to turn the switch back off or run. So this does have the risk of draining your battery if they just leave.

    Good luck!

  7. Rebuild Carbs, or Leave Them Alone?

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    I'd suggest having the kits on hand and removing the bowls so you can inspect the innards and spray them with cleaner. Sometimes the bowl gasket is distorted when removed and (with Merc's anyway) you can't probably buy them seperatly. If you decide to remove and refurbish the carbs you should service them on a solid clean surface because there are some tiny bits that love to fly and disapear.

    Also, do one carb and then the other. You'll want to have a manual to guide you but if you get really confused it will be helpful to have an assembled model to refer to.

    Good luck!

  9. Hidden cameras

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    Please be careful and discrete abut how you use this equipment. A misunderstanding

    can be damaging to your reputation. If you are going to record the images you

    should check your local surveillance laws. You may need to have a sign posted to

    warn the general public they are on 'Candid Camera.'

    A fake camera or two, might put folks on their better behavior and save you some hassle.

    You could also rig an alarm trigger to these fakes so if they are tamperred with it draws

    attention through your real (concealed) camera.

    Good luck!

    (Disclaimer: I have no connection with any company selling these materials.)

  24. Anyone know anything about really old crank telephones

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    ... yours must be an EE-8.

    Those have canvas. Mine must be the officer's edition because they have leather cases and straps. (joke) Otherwise they apear to be identical.

    I don't have them anymore. I gave them to my nephew as a birthday present when he was about 15. He ran the line from the house to a camper my sister let him sleep in (just before cell use went viral) in Royal Palms. The joke was on him - now she could wake him up when it was raining!

    I brought it down in my carry-on. The screeners were fascinated. I think they wanted to play with them but there were too many people. Ah... simpler days.

  25. Anyone know anything about really old crank telephones

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    Were yours TA-312's?

    .... Amazing how long something so simple can remain in use.

    No. Those are NASA tech compared to what I had. lol. They had a leather bag and you just dropped the handset into the empty section. One of them had a WWII date and the other had early '50's but they were otherwise identical models.

    One of them wouldn't transmit clearly. After I had replaced the internal wiring I identified the problem by swapping out the internal mouthpiece parts of the handset. I replaced the bad one with an identical piece from an old WesternElectric handset. I guess there was a lot of commonality in the technology from those days!

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