Lloyd-
Welcome to usenet, where the weak and sickly get thinned from the herd and
devoured.
All responses here are made from behind a wall of anonymity so sometimes it
tends to be brutal but factual.
Most of us here know you want to do the right thing and eventually will,
but please allow us the pleasure of picking apart your blow by blow account
for any weakness we may find and imploring our derision upon them.
Ya get what ya pay for!!!!
It's all (well mostly) in good spirit!
Best of luck....
BTW.... I have personally "engineered" some emergency "repairs" that would
curl your toes...ever tow an automobile down an interstate with jumper
cables????




"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:23:56 +0000, Peggie Hall wrote:

bomar wrote:
I think this is one of those scenarios where
someone asks for advice but has made up their mind as to what they
what to do and no amount of logic will dissuade them from straying
from the course they have set. Gonna be one Hell of a mess....

I couldn't add anything to that if I spent a whole day trying to think
of something.


(Rant mode ON)

Ya know, this is a peeve I have about this NG, and even more so
rec.boats.building. I'll ask for advice on one aspect of my project, get
copious amounts of advice other parts (none on the part I want assistance
on), and get dissed of ignoring the advice.

In this case, I have a time and budget-constraint that keeps me from
doing this as per the advice.

(Story mode ON)
I grew up on a farm. Here, maybe the tongue breaks on the haywagon. Now,
the PROPER way it to have it welded. But:
- you're in the middle of a hayfield, no welder in sight
- the welder in town is closed all weekend, it's Saturday, and it's gonna
rain on Sunday

So...do you do it the "proper" way: take it to the welder and have your
hay rained on? Or do you find a 2x4, strap it on with some baling-wire,
and get the hay in?

(Story mode OFF)

I'm well aware of how it SHOULD be done, and it WILL be done that way
when I haul the boat this winter (I won't mention the Project for fear
of getting all kinds of advice on it...). The ONE thing I wanted advice on
is whether or not I should continue to use the 1" hose, or convert to
1.5". THAT was never addressed! I was told to replace all the thruhulls,
not use the 3/4" thruhull, use a thruhull for the sink (what, drill a new
one??), not use the same thruhull for the sink as the sewage (I'm not),
etc., but NOTHING on the topic I asked advice on!

Maybe I tell too much - I should just post the part that I want advice
on?

(Rant mode OFF)

Sorry, I do get lots of good advice from this NG, but sometimes I get
frustrated...

Lloyd