suzook12

Yes it does, have used it on many a motorcycle wheel before now..... Can't see the chips at 150mph 70mph🤣

Yeah, thats fine when you're talking 4x4's etc, they will have durable wheels with significant load rating, when they're from a fiesta or similar, the same can't be said....
Kit form from China.... Dunno why, but just don't fancy that idea!!
I think trailer testing is a good idea, say anything over 500kg laden or unmarked, that way all homebuilds end up with serial numbers and can be seen to be suitable and of a high enough quality......
I adapted my own trailer away from carpeted bunks to roller bunks, but also with tail and keel rollers, that winds the boat up off the grass no worries

Don't forget the kilo of cocaine under the drivers seat and the headless corpse in the boot...
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I once had a chat with an oil technician, who had some simple recommendations:
Unit construction bikes, fully synthetic as the gear box chops the mineral oil molecules to bits (hence usage) also high revs and intricate parts Pre-unit (seperate gearbox) mineral or semi-synthetic, often monograde for old engines (eg straight 30 in triumph twins) Inboards depend on original use and type of engine.  Mineral or semi synthetic for mercruiser v8 (car) and truck (eg volvo, sabre, perkins etc), but fully synthetic for modern, high revving such as Yanmar Outboards= semi synthetic for car based, fully synthetic for high revving purpose built (eg. verado).  Use fully synthetic for all if run at WOT often He also reckoned that the cheap and expensive oils were made in the same plants, so just put fully synthetic mid-price oil in everything!  There are always specialists of course, and firms like Silkolene, as suzook suggested, produce racing oils that give added protection if you give everything constant stick, which is why their oil is in my outboard, ex. bikes, but not car!

Yes it does, have used it on many a motorcycle wheel before now..... Can't see the chips at 150mph 70mph🤣

well i have put the new calls ect , on the outboard and we have a grate spark. know i will have to save up for the starter motor.
as i am lazey

you beat me to it, you  lucky@@@@@@
good luck mate if you had not been there before me i would have had it

Thanks for the heads up Jon, I have some speaker wire that I removed from a Cortina about 20 years ago, and have a reel of cellotape from xmas 95, so sorted 👍
 
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grew some daffodils in it so not entirely wasted
 

Hell ya.... Was quite an eventful year all told, but the one good thing is, because we knew what was going to happen, we had time to spend quality time together... That is the bit that really counts

If ya gonna do it..... Lol
Was 6 years or more ago now. The shame of it was, we bought the boat for Dad's last summer, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and no known cure..... That curtailed that summer. We never got to go out fishing again.

Talking of locks, although on a river/fenland drain.....
Was on a boat with my Dad, and we were heading for the great ouse relief channel, I brought the boat in to the lock while Dad walked round to the control panel. So, I'm sitting there holding the boat steady using the lock ladder waiting and waiting.... Nothing... Shouts to Dad to find out whats going on and he says he can't get the controls to work. So I tied a hitch to the ladder and climbed up.... Sure enough, controls are unresponsive, turned it all off, reset and tried again, sure enough, starts working, tells Dad to stop it till I get back to the boat.... Nope, didn't happen, so ran back, jumped into the boat and set to trying to undo the rope... All to no avail. With the same creaking and cracking as Headlight mentioned, we started getting a serious list on, by which point, I've thought, fuck this, I'm out of here. Just as I got to the top of the lock as heard an almight crack, looked down to see the cabin/ring deck starting to detatch!!
Runs back to the controls, E stop and everything else not working.... Ran to other end, keyed on and just hit the gates open button (normally you use flapper? valves first then open gates), mad rush of water and water back up on a slack rope. Limped it out of the lock and back to it's mooring before trailering it up to take it home for repair....
Needless to say, some arsehole in a kit car came storming round a corner, lost the back and started coming straight at me.... I swerved, missed him, caught a run off ditch, denred the van roof with my head, recovered just in time to see the trailer do the same.... Pulled over only to find that the side roller had punched through the hull...... And he never stopped... Barstard!!

grew some daffodils in it so not entirely wasted
 

Hell ya.... Was quite an eventful year all told, but the one good thing is, because we knew what was going to happen, we had time to spend quality time together... That is the bit that really counts

No corks, I like the taste of fly's. We actually don't have the fly problem in this area, seems to be a big issue further north where it gets much hotter. We do have several species of tick that are a pain locally though, with the paralysis tick being the worse, one of which got me a few days ago while out exploring a freshwater creek. I now have a red balloon leg!!!
Back on track with the haves and not have, I must admit not having electricity and internet over several weeks of the bush fires was exceptionally nice. Shops had nothing due to no transport getting through and empty backup power generators. It was good seeing a small town pull together to help each other out, many of which lost homes and friends.
It was kind of like the beginning of a zombie movie but different in a way we have food swimming in the lake in front of our house. I also had enough fuel to cover at least 30 trips out to the kingfish ground giving us a healthy supply of fish to share among the community. You've had a little taste of this sort of thing when people panic bought food from shops over Covid, which can soon turn pear shaped in densely populated areas. If that supply was to stop totally 

If ya gonna do it..... Lol
Was 6 years or more ago now. The shame of it was, we bought the boat for Dad's last summer, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and no known cure..... That curtailed that summer. We never got to go out fishing again.

If ya gonna do it..... Lol
Was 6 years or more ago now. The shame of it was, we bought the boat for Dad's last summer, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and no known cure..... That curtailed that summer. We never got to go out fishing again.

Talking of locks, although on a river/fenland drain.....
Was on a boat with my Dad, and we were heading for the great ouse relief channel, I brought the boat in to the lock while Dad walked round to the control panel. So, I'm sitting there holding the boat steady using the lock ladder waiting and waiting.... Nothing... Shouts to Dad to find out whats going on and he says he can't get the controls to work. So I tied a hitch to the ladder and climbed up.... Sure enough, controls are unresponsive, turned it all off, reset and tried again, sure enough, starts working, tells Dad to stop it till I get back to the boat.... Nope, didn't happen, so ran back, jumped into the boat and set to trying to undo the rope... All to no avail. With the same creaking and cracking as Headlight mentioned, we started getting a serious list on, by which point, I've thought, fuck this, I'm out of here. Just as I got to the top of the lock as heard an almight crack, looked down to see the cabin/ring deck starting to detatch!!
Runs back to the controls, E stop and everything else not working.... Ran to other end, keyed on and just hit the gates open button (normally you use flapper? valves first then open gates), mad rush of water and water back up on a slack rope. Limped it out of the lock and back to it's mooring before trailering it up to take it home for repair....
Needless to say, some arsehole in a kit car came storming round a corner, lost the back and started coming straight at me.... I swerved, missed him, caught a run off ditch, denred the van roof with my head, recovered just in time to see the trailer do the same.... Pulled over only to find that the side roller had punched through the hull...... And he never stopped... Barstard!!

Once I headed into the locks at Cardiff on one of the first trips on Odyssey. 

It was a windy day abs she catches the wind a lot.... so I thought I’d use my bow thruster to make it easy and glide up to the pontoon to push the boat against the wind (I was about 5ft from the pontoon). 
 
Only issue was some numpty who had been rewiring the boat had put the bow thruster switch in upside down so whereas I wanted to go towards starboard. I was now heading to port..... it was very graceful glide across the entire side of the lock.... 
All worked out ok and I mmmm sure it looked like it was intended 🤣🤣🤣

Old speaker wire twists very nicely, so thin there's no chance of it pricking soft fingers!!!
Those old Lowrance hds5 units were very good, I keep one as a spare.

It's alright Jon, I'm quite particular as to hoew my wires are twisted together and taped up, and how the units are cable tied into position 🤣

Good job the flares aren't made in China then 🤣

Well, few years back now, went out with a work colleague and his Dad and a mate of mine and 2 others. The boat was a quite old looking wooden boat. Alarm bells should have rang when had to take the battery off my van to get the boat started.... Anyway, we headed out of Thornham into the wash after tope and general fishing. The day was fairly uneventful, apart from the hand pump failing after the electric bilge failed and we resorted to bailng the bilge with pots n pans to get the water below starter motor level.......
Thornham is one of those places where yo have around a 2 hour tide window so you are effectively out for around 12 hours. We were on our way back in an the "skipper" asks us to keep an eye on the channel marker bouys, once they were floating we could go back in....... Needless to say, we ended up on top of the sand bar. Fortunately we had boat hooks on board so 3 of us were pushing the boat back every time a wave lifted us. Anyway, we got off and the rest as they say is history.... What neither me or my mate realised at the time, was exactly how much danger we were in...... Luckily the boat rolled away from the incoming tide and swell, so we were on the dry side so to speak otherwise we would have been breached and undoubtedly sunk.
The day ended with the traditional 10-12 pints of Newcastles finest and oblivious to how close we had been to an RNLI call

Well, few years back now, went out with a work colleague and his Dad and a mate of mine and 2 others. The boat was a quite old looking wooden boat. Alarm bells should have rang when had to take the battery off my van to get the boat started.... Anyway, we headed out of Thornham into the wash after tope and general fishing. The day was fairly uneventful, apart from the hand pump failing after the electric bilge failed and we resorted to bailng the bilge with pots n pans to get the water below starter motor level.......
Thornham is one of those places where yo have around a 2 hour tide window so you are effectively out for around 12 hours. We were on our way back in an the "skipper" asks us to keep an eye on the channel marker bouys, once they were floating we could go back in....... Needless to say, we ended up on top of the sand bar. Fortunately we had boat hooks on board so 3 of us were pushing the boat back every time a wave lifted us. Anyway, we got off and the rest as they say is history.... What neither me or my mate realised at the time, was exactly how much danger we were in...... Luckily the boat rolled away from the incoming tide and swell, so we were on the dry side so to speak otherwise we would have been breached and undoubtedly sunk.
The day ended with the traditional 10-12 pints of Newcastles finest and oblivious to how close we had been to an RNLI call

Apologies to the exiled dude down under, rather than continue in his excellent threads blatant hijacking,  thought I'd stick up a quick ditty here.
Couple of hours to waste, went out to pester Mullet, had two on floating bread before they went off the feed at HW, switched over to lures and ran SPs in the run at the mouth of the harbour.. with a Wrasse followed by two Bass one after the other.