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On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:44:10 -0400, WaIIy wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:20:29 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok wrote: 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) From reading your posts for some time now, I'm a bit surprised you would support such an obvious poseur. The guy discusses a piece of work that he had done; you disparage that, I simply enquired "what have you done?" What support? Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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