Die sudden death next to work dinks or docks with barnicals . Can not be dragged up onto most beaches as all the necrssary outboard junk makes them too heavy. Most are very wet in any outboard operation over a couple of K. If use as life boat , you just sit waiting to be hopefully found. My preference is for an old & very $$ rare Grumman Sailing dink.

(the damn things never seem to die) Hope this helps. J. Peter Zimmer

They all die when it gets cold. I lived in Hawaii for 24 years. NEVER AGAIN. And speaking of frozen stuff, there's a technique everyone seems to use in Alaska to keep a windshield from icing up overnight that people in the lower 48 seem to have never heard of. Put a towel, piece of plastic tarp, etc. over the windshield when you park the car.

I also carry a Makita electric die-grinder. I use small metal cutting wheels and buffing wheels for de-burring. Like the laminate trimmer, it's only occasionally used but handy when called upon. Peter www.SeaSkills.com

SONY) for $3K or simply plan on letting commodity units die gracefully and buy 7 or 8 cheap machines for the same money. I'd opt for the latter because it will also give you the discipline to refine your "backup" process.

We are late heading south but holed up in Barnegat waiting for the wind machine to die down. Thanks for the Picture. Never get many shots underway. Don't look too close at my junk deck. We're living aboard with 2 kayaks, 3 bicycles two dingys and more!

For example, I've made plain mill finish stainless pieces into highly polished finishes with a simple flap wheel of maybe 180 grit followed by a rag wheel and grey polishing compound at 2000 rpm mounted on a die grinder or other tool that can handle applying some decent pressure to get the polished finish.

Yes, I believe that when the excessive levels of plants die off, the decomposition process uses up a lot of?the dissolved oxygen in the water, thus?lowering the oxygen levels to critical levels. Tim Behan -----Original Message----- From: Scott H.E.

I will have to admit, the nav computer did die on me 4 years ago. It was a (at that time) 5 year old GX150 that I didn't take in during the winter in Wilmington, NC. The motherboard froze. I replaced the motherboard with one from a GX100 and sofar its done fine.

If the threads on the zinc do not screw in fully or easily, the threads can be chased by a standard straight tap and die of the correct size. If the broken off butt cannot be screwed out, it can be drilled out and the threads in the plug chased with the appropriate sized tap.