On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:54:30 -0400, WaIIy wrote:

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:49:22 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote:


The ultimate would be the Russian heavy equipment engines I worked on
in Indonesia. they had three starting systems - electric, manual
(crank up a flywheel) and auxiliary one cylinder engine.

Cheers,

Bruce

Darn, that is redunant.....

Im not sure that much redundancy is needed. I tend to belive in
keeping systems designed well and maintained religiously. Which means
replace stuff.

I think SKip would OCD and overdose with that Russian system.

I say, keep it simple, keep it bulit proof, keep it maintained witch
means REPLACE stuff before failure.
I decided to replace the 70' of 0/2 cable for my windless. Why? it had
been on the boat since 1979. Everybody said, just leave it cause it
would cost too much money and your windless works jsut fine. Good
thing I did. After removing the cables I found two knicks in the cover
that were ozzing green powdery stuff and the cable was about 1/3
larger at the point. Im sure that happened when the cable was
originally pulled and got an unknown cut on the cover. Oh, the two
splices I found were also equally gross. Moral of story..............
stop installing doo dads and start from the foundation up. all that
electic wifi and **** wont mean squat if you cant get ur anchor up or
your motor started.

Boob


I'm glad to see you're starting to use your real name.

Gosh, you replaced a couple of cables. Great story.


And what have you done this week?
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)