[Rhodes22-list] OB Motors ( for Rummy)

[Stephen Staum]

You make a good arguement for the simple & reliable manual lift system.

Stephen Staum
'87 R22, Carol Lee

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On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:52 AM, ftugwell at cox.net wrote:

> On Saturday I was single-handing my Rhodes on the Potomac with good
> winds (around 15 k) and when I decided to return to port, the engine
> would not drop--in fact, nothing happened when I pressed the remote
> (this is new) button to lower the lift.  I called Stan, who went  
> through
> all the alternatives with me: a) checking the connections on the  
> busbar
> in the laz, and on the battery; b) reading the instructions to find  
> the
> release for the motor; and c) in an emergency situation, cutting the
> strap while holding the motor up with a line so that it does not drop.
> We had already determined that there was still power, since my
> instruments were all working.  I was in the middle of the channel with
> lots of boats zooming around and a good wind, so I decided to go  
> back to
> the marina area and anchor to check things out.  Since it was  
> relatively
> easy, I did reach in the laz and, to my surprise, I found a loose nut
> connection. (not a wire nut, just a nut)  After I tightened it, the
> motor lift worked.  Many thanks to Stan for walking me through this on
> my new boat.  An aside: no surveyor will approve a boat for sale if it
> has wire nuts.  these are not for marine use.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Joe Camp wrote:
>
>> Rummy and Chris:
>>
>>      There seems to be a Freudian undertone in all of this "nut"  
>> talk.
>> Can we switch to something more directly phallic, like "raising the
>> mast?"  Just a thought, but let's not hide our true natures...men.
>>
>> Joe
>> --- On Tue, 6/22/10, R22RumRunner at aol.com  wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: R22RumRunner at aol.com Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] OB Motors (
>> for Rummy)
>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 7:57 AM
>>
>>
>> Wire nuts are not for marine use. I prefer soldered connections with
>> shrink tubing and then a layer of liquid electrical tape. I'm glad we
>> dug a little  deeper into this subject.
>>
>> Rummy
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/21/2010 1:35:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> ccowie at cowieassociates.com writes:
>>
>> Thanks  for the advice.  The nuts I was referring to are not the wing
>> nuts on the  battery rather control wires from the outboard lift
>> switch have wire nuts that  seem to come a bit loose every now and
>> then.  I plan to replace them with  a bette