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On Sep 8, 5:23*pm, Tim wrote:
On Sep 8, 10:12*am, "mmc" wrote:



"Tim" wrote in message


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On Sep 6, 11:49 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
My friend visited us this weekend for the long weekend. *We get ready to
go
fishing, and so, of course, we need to mount the trolling motor I bought
on
the bow. *No great correct accurate good looking mount, mind you, we're
in a
hurry. *So we shoot some quarter inch lags into the ratty plywood that's
there with a promise to make it better next week or sometime after that.


Then the damn motor wouldn't work. *It worked fine when the guy
demonstrated
it where I bought it, which was from a craigslist ad. *He was even a cop.
*******.


So we putzed a little, then decided to go watch drag racing.


Tonight, after he left, I took the bottom plate off the foot control, and
the last doofus in there had put one of the wires behind the in/out
lever,
and the first time the foot pedal was depressed all the way, it pulled it
off the spade.


Crap. *A missed fishing trip. *Instant fix, rerouted the wire, plus
squeezed
all the other spade connectors tighter. *Works like a charm.


Well, at least now I have a good excuse to go test it.


Time to do some fishing. *Time to do some work on the boat, too.


Anyone here have a boat?


Steve


Yes, *I have three and a pontoon. *All are surprising when the
maintenance flag pops up.


From here on to be referred to as "Tim's Navy"!


Does that make me "Capt. Hornblower?"

?;^ Q


Better than being Capt. Knobgobbler, like Larry