It's funny, before I "retired" I did all my own mechanical work, now I don't have the time.
How did that happen?
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"The older I get, the faster I was......."
1979 60C "Ohana" hull# 331
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Every person I know who is retired wonders how they ever found the time to go to work.
--- The poster formerly known as Scrod ---
I want to live in Theory, everything works there.
1970 36C375
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I can’t wait to feel that feeling. Six months to go.
SEVEN
1979 53' MY Hull #563
Antioch, California
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True this! No longer having an excuse not to attack the honey-do list really cuts into your time.
And in my case all the issues I have been putting off on the family rental property empire came all at once.
I replaced 22 garages and patios, replaced the electric panels and tented for termites on one property, roofed five buildings, built a retaining wall and renewed the paving on another, re did all the gas and electric (from scratch) on..er...under a large mobile home park, then my mom passed last year so I got on refurbishing that house to sell (closed last Friday - Yay!).
In addition, the owner of the project where my engineering business is located decided to sell and the new owners want to re-position the project as a high end millenial oriented wheat grass/safe room type of high tech facility so I am in the finishing stages of relocating that whole mess (offices, machinery, lab, etc).
It's hard to find the time to use the boat and still race sports cars and ride my motorcycles. Oh, and race RC cars on Wednesday nights.
I need a nap....."The older I get, the faster I was......."
1979 60C "Ohana" hull# 331
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Sticking turbos happen quite a bit in aircraft engines that aren’t used frequently mechanics often pull the oil lines and soak the bearings with mouse milk to dissolve the coking and rust in the bearings. I owned a Cessna 340A for 24 years the norm was to allow the engines to operate at Idle for 5 minutes before shutdown to make sure the turbos were cooled down and the oil in the bearings didn’t coke. I bought the plane new in 1984 from Southwest Skyways in Torrance Ca and ran the first set of engines and turbos 400 hours past TBO.
"DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE" - BEN FRANKLIN
Endless Summer
1967 50c 12/71n DDA 525hp
ex Miss Betsy
owners:
Howard P. Miller 1967-1974
Richard F Hull 1974-1976
Robert J. & R.Scott Smith 1976-present
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To no one's surprise, the turbo is "welded" to the manifold.
Application of penetrating spooge has been done, now to let it sit a few days and try again.
If that deosn't work, next I'll try heat. But how much heat will it take for something that runs red hot in operation?"The older I get, the faster I was......."
1979 60C "Ohana" hull# 331
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Semper Siesta
Robert Clarkson
ASLAN, 1983 55C #343
Charleston, SC
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The turbo was jammed by carbon on the hot side. The guy I got the rebuilt one from - "Detroits Only" highly respected in SoCal - looked at it and said "push the levers up more often and for longer periods"
Ok...."The older I get, the faster I was......."
1979 60C "Ohana" hull# 331
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Craig Stange at Detroits Only is the best Detroit Diesel mechanic I've ever met. If he said push em up for longer, I'd do it
Looking for a 80 plus foot yacht
Hatteras of Cheoy Lee
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Craig Stange at Detroits Only is the best Detroit Diesel mechanic I've ever met
He said as soon as I get the boat running to run her at 1800-1900 for at least two hours.
Maybe I'll go out and chase some of the bluefin that have been hanging around Cortez Bank lately, and run all the way. It's only fuel....."The older I get, the faster I was......."
1979 60C "Ohana" hull# 331