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



If those spade connections are all exposed, and the back plate isn't
watertight, I'd hit them with some liquid electrical tape. It will seal
them and help to prevent them from coming off in the future.