[Rhodes22-list] OB Motors ( for Rummy)

[Stephen Staum]

Elle,

I have a 5HP, air cooled, 4 stroke Briggs & Stratton outboard. It  
weighs about 50#. Easy to lift.

Stephen Staum

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On Jun 23, 2010, at 3:00 PM, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
> At 4'10" & not much over 100 lbs, I'd be sitting on the sidelines if  
> I didn't have my electric lift. That 9.8 weighs almost as much as I  
> do.
> Now, a guy would make a good manual lift...
> ;^)
> elle
>
> Beer is good....people are crazy
>
> 1992 Rhodes 22    Recycled '06"Watermusic"  {Lady in Red}
>
> --- On Tue, 6/22/10, Stephen Staum <staum at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> From: Stephen Staum <staum at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] OB Motors ( for Rummy)
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 12:52 PM
>
> You make a good arguement for the simple & reliable manual lift  
> system.
>
> Stephen Staum
> '87 R22, Carol Lee
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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
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