"Jim" wrote in message
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"Kilgore Trout" wrote in message
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I've gotten nowhere with this marina on this matter though, and I know
that the mechanic knows what the problem is. They just want me to come
crawling on hands on knees with a wad of dough.


KT

Spend a few hundred to eliminate the liability issues you would have to
deal with if you crash into another boat and cause personal injury,
because of a missed shift.
Jim


Some people crack me up. I knew a guy years ago who got the bright idea to
build his own block ice freezer for his boat. He worked on this project at
work where he bugged the bananas out of the subcontract refrigeration guy
that used to charge up some of the subsystems that we built. The block ice
guy basically got the contractor to supply parts (free), calculate the coil
length for the compressor (came from a '75 Chevy Impala - free) and overall
give the inventor free help. Although it initially worked, the block ice
maker died for some unknown reason and the owner complained for months about
how the refrigeration contractor was a " bum" and "incompetent". Turns out
the coil had a leak in one of the silver soldered joints ... that the boat
owner had built.

The same guy came to me one day with, believe it or not, a 6 volt hotplate
that he dug out of his pile of junk someplace. It must have been built in
the '40's or earlier. He wanted me to design and build a voltage divider so
he could run it on his 12 volt boat battery. Remembering the well
intentioned refrigeration guy, I told him to take a hike.

You get what you pay for.

Eisboch