Recent content by Still Afloat

If you need aluminum look around for an aluminum supplier. Most will sell to the public. Selection, quality and prices are typically much better than the box stores.

I had a Standard Horizon mobile that I kept in the kayak life vest. Nice padded pocket made for mobile radios. The external mic connector broke in less than a year. So your mileage may vary by model and use case.

ICOM has been around the longest and they also sell radios to the government, police, fire, amateur radio, etc. I’d buy an ICOM over a Garmin, Lowrance, etc. First thing is to check if the lakes that you fish have someone monitoring the marine band. Then look into features that make sense...

An upgrade that might be worth consideration is oil filled wheel bearings. No more worrying about packing bearings.

Call an injector shop to see if they can clean the injectors. Also try a different tank and fuel line. What liner did they replace? The impeller liner or the jet pump liner? Are you greasing the bearing on the jet pump after every use?

Manufactures commonly round the length to whole number. So a 1448 might actually measure a few inches shorter than 14 ft.

It looks like whomever originally assembled the trailer didn’t read the instructions. Perhaps the winch could be mounted where the pulley is currently located.

Tip over a bull and it might break that pastime quickly.

Got it. I’ve never gotten into raising cattle that much but, it sounds similar to hypnotizing chickens.

Sorry BoneDigger, I totally derailed your thread. Easy to do around here. :) Have you found a solution for the holes?

I don’t get it.

It adds a lot of strength with the proper mix of filler. Think of it as concrete versus grout.

As I recall, even the JB Marine is iron based.

West Systems does have some nice epoxy. I used quite a bit of it when laying up wings back when I could see well enough to fly RC planes. One thing that a guy learns real quick in that hobby is the use of epoxy fillers. Microballons, chopped fiberglass, carbon fiber and even balsa saw dust...

Perhaps JB Weld no longer lists the filler material on the packages. They did a year ago. Hope I didn’t start this urban legend. If so, country folklore would be a better description. :) There is no urban in this old boy.