Three Word Post Whore's Delight

[chpthril]

Drywall is one example. I remember spending several weekends in high school working with my boss in his rental house mudding and taping. We got it done, but made a huge mess, and it took forever.

I know of a crew now that could do the same job, hanging, taping and mudding in a relaxed afternoon... And when I look at what they charge vs. two of my weekends, I would be a fool not to use them. Plus, in the end, the job is only about 1000 times better than the one I would do....

I'm that way with auto body work. I've spent 17 yrs crank'n wrenches on cars and can fix almost anything with 12V's and an internal combustion engine but I cant lay bondo or spray primer for $H!T

[philwsailz]

Yep, wife is faxing back the app today. Cant wait to get into the nitty-gritty of this. My son is peeing down both legs knowing I will have Kicker stuff. I think he will be my biggest customer, but the hardest to collect from

"You know... I know I don't pay you very well, but you gotta admit, I sure do a lot of business with ya"

overheard at the local farm coop accounting desk....

[chpthril]

I realize my posts are a little contrary to each other, one being hire it done, and the other learn something new...

I do not do that to sound wishy-washy... I guess there are some things where I think I have already found my limitations...

[philwsailz]

I'm that way with auto body work. I've spent 17 yrs crank'n wrenches on cars and can fix almost anything with 12V's and an internal combustion engine but I cant lay bondo or spray primer for $H!T

wanna hear one funny? I will hire out car stereo work now..

[chpthril]

wanna hear one funny? I will hire out car stereo work now..

Outside of the itchies from glass, boats are easy to work on compared to cars IMO.

[philwsailz]

Outside of the itchies from glass, boats are easy to work on compared to cars IMO.

totally agreed.

Oh, one more thing though, with boats we have to deal with a very long ground cable, and all the noises and pops that go with not having a ground plane....

So glad I figured out the capacitor fix!!!!... BTW, I guess I need to make sure you know what I am doing and how, and you will want to be purchasing some bass blocker caps from Chris as a part of normal business....

[philwsailz]

wanna go for 5K today?

Anything distracting you from the goal?

[philwsailz]

My one thing is the birthday party... I am goi ng to take off early so I can air up balloons, hang streamers, dust and vaccuum, etc... That might keep me from being a total whore today...

[chpthril]

totally agreed.

Oh, one more thing though, with boats we have to deal with a very long ground cable, and all the noises and pops that go with not having a ground plane....

So glad I figured out the capacitor fix!!!!... BTW, I guess I need to make sure you know what I am doing and how, and you will want to be purchasing some bass blocker caps from Chris as a part of normal business....

Cool I would love to here more about this. I would much prefer to work something like this into the install price, and not need it, rather then get a call from the dealer 3 weeks later about pops, and then I'm on the hook for the cost of the fix.

wanna go for 5K today?

Anything distracting you from the goal?

Going to lunch in about an hour but will be back for the rest of the day

[chpthril]

My one thing is the birthday party... I am goi ng to take off early so I can air up balloons, hang streamers, dust and vaccuum, etc... That might keep me from being a total whore today...

Sounds like a good time in the works

[chpthril]

I think 5k is doable today

[philwsailz]

Cool I would love to here more about this. I would much prefer to work something like this into the install price, and not need it, rather then get a call from the dealer 3 weeks later about pops, and then I'm on the hook for the cost of the fix.



Going to lunch in about an hour but will be back for the rest of the day

I can share more details later, but real simply, the fix is a big bass blocker cap, parallel to the load, just after the load switch. This works for dock lights, ballast valves, trim pumps... I think it should work for fans too, but still have not heard from Dom if the caps I gave him worked.

On a sterndrive for example, one can install the caps right at the plug for the throttle's trim control, up by the drivers seat. Proximity to the offending load seems to not be critical, and allows you to keep the caps out of the engine compartment. I get goosey about putting things in other peoples boats that might cause them to explode....

Understand, we are installing the caps in the existing boat wiring, not in the stereo wiring....

[chpthril]

I gotta tell ya'll...........I had the worst dream last night............Matt shut this thread down because of G's pic he posted yesterday He wrote this killer long post about why he locked it and he did it in red

It was horrible, I woke up in a sweat. I almost came on just to make sure

[philwsailz]

I gotta tell ya'll...........I had the worst dream last night............Matt shut this thread down because of G's pic he posted yesterday He wrote this killer long post about why he locked it and he did it in red

It was horrible, I woke up in a sweat. I almost came on just to make sure

you are addicted.......

I know what you mean though... I thought bibbs had crashed our party for a minute....

[chpthril]

I can share more details later, but real simply, the fix is a big bass blocker cap, parallel to the load, just after the load switch. This works for dock lights, ballast valves, trim pumps... I think it should work for fans too, but still have not heard from Dom if the caps I gave him worked.

On a sterndrive for example, one can install the caps right at the plug for the throttle control, up by the drivers seat. Proximity to the offending load seems to not be critical, and allows you to keep the caps out of the engine compartment. I get goosey about putting things in other peoples boats that might cause them to explode....

Understand, we are installing the caps in the existing boat wiring, not in the stereo wiring....

Sound easy enough