Pontoon boat tear down and rebuild
But I do recognise a lathe and a roller bearing in those pics.
03-25-2010, 02:41 PM
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Yeah, I'm not much good with the machiney partsy stuff.
I sort of recognize that as a lathe. I definitely recognize those larval-stage Slinkies laying around at the bottom of the lathe.
K brings those home on his clothes every now and then. I'm good at finding them with my bare feet.
I sort of recognize that as a lathe. I definitely recognize those larval-stage Slinkies laying around at the bottom of the lathe.
K brings those home on his clothes every now and then. I'm good at finding them with my bare feet.
03-26-2010, 08:09 AM
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when I took a friend out and hit a branch with the troller prop, broke one blade off, no spare, and ended up push poling a pontoon boat with 4 people all night...
Or the time we were taking a newbie out and put the troller down just to find out it wouldn't run...
Or the time we were taking someone out for a trip we'd donated to a charity auction and the troller burnt up 15 minutes into the trip and I got to change out the troller at the ramp...
Or one of the many times where the troller quit when the fishing was getting good...
...that's why I'm going to this trouble...
That and the fact that the troller is the current limiting factor of how shallow my boat can go. So that some of the flats that we fish now won't be one pass and done because the troller prop has murked it up.
On the downside, many of the spots we like to fish are now unreachable because of the fan. But that's the trade off.
03-27-2010, 07:35 PM
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Well last night I got the post finished that swivels the fan. The main part of the base is done with the exception of drilling the mounting holes. The shroud is finished.
This morning I put it all together as a trial fit and everything looked how I wanted...soooo after a bit of grinding on the welds I didn't make, I waited for it to warm up a bit and I started to paint. It seems that it's too much to ask for a few days of warm dry weather with winds below 20mph???
If the rain will hold off for a bit I can start to put the deck on and paint it.
And no I didn't take any pictures.
Just use your imagination of me holding either a spray can or a roller!
This morning I put it all together as a trial fit and everything looked how I wanted...soooo after a bit of grinding on the welds I didn't make, I waited for it to warm up a bit and I started to paint. It seems that it's too much to ask for a few days of warm dry weather with winds below 20mph???
If the rain will hold off for a bit I can start to put the deck on and paint it.
And no I didn't take any pictures.
Just use your imagination of me holding either a spray can or a roller!
