Recent content by MVCalypso

A first hand report of using JB on Marelon is great- gotta love the knowledge base here! I'll give the JB a try.

I have some Feist cable caddies on my forward stantions which I use to hang the shore power cord. Pic is from ebay just to show what a cable caddy is. I believe they are made from Marelon. One of them has developed a crack and I'd like to try to glue it. Does anyone know what glue(s) works with...

I guess I can try that but it doesn't seem it will address my question... marking all threads as already read would (I expect) reduce the number of notification emails for "new threads/conversations". OK, but that's not the core issue of my question - I don't want notifications at a thread...

What happened to daily digests for subscribed forums? They no longer show up and instead I'm getting a bunch of emails for individual threads - which I find annoying.

Given that your boat is 1976 vintage, with cable steering and the old autopilot is a Benmar, I'd guess that it could be a model 210. Is the drive unit for the mechanical steering a metal box around 10"-12" on a side? With a sprocket and chain to a wheel shaft where the shaft in turn moves the...

I'll at least echo the "it's very nice to have" gang. As I effectively single hand a lot (even if the Admiral is aboard, I'm the pilot most of the time), I'd even go a bit further and say, for myself, I consider it a requirement. As I get older the more valuable the AP is to me. Hand steering...

Please be very careful with Chinese diesel heaters (CDH)... This is a post I made a while back summarizing my experience with one: https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1214832&postcount=21 A couple of good sources for CDH info are these Facebook groups...

Hi, After almost a year since I did that project, it still causes an emotional reaction :mad: from me. Sorry if I was in rant-on mode. Taking the the approach that a CDH is a kit of sorta related parts and treating it's operation like it's a coiled rattle snake, is prudent. BTW, if you...

Spring last year I went through the "Fix the Espar" or try the cheap Chinese diesel heaters (CDH) exercise... WARNING - A CDH heater can (and is likely to try to) kill you! I'm not being melodramatic. CDH manufacturing quality control is horrid. I had an Espar D3L in my boat for 30+ years...

Replacing tanks This thread may be of interest: https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s32/island-gypsy-fuel-tanks-project-summary-68165.html

Interesting. I was told that I could pay for overnight delivery - but I declined because for the increase in shipping (from $0 compared to Blackstone's prepaid shipping labels) it would only save about 4 days. Since that was a small portion of the overall turn around time, it didn't seem cost...

Thanks to everyone for the leads to other oil analysis firms. I think at the next sample interval, I'll pull 2-4 samples at the same time and send each to different labs. That will let me compare the reports and the customer service levels. I realize that will require a small investment cost...

Hergurth is who I used to use. When they got bought by SGS I started having problems with them. Example: SGS required a new account set up and would not link the Herguth reports from before to the new account - so the sample history was hard to access (I had to log into the old account to see...

Hi, For years I've done regular oil analysis for my engines, trans and gen. For many years I used a firm local to me in the SF bay area - until they were bought out and customer service became an unknown concept. :ermm: For about 2 years I've been using Blackstone Labs. I mostly like their...

Hi All - An update: first, sorry for the delay in posting an update. The project slipped out as I was down with a bug for a couple of weeks. Anyhow, the job is now all done. All the joints were taken apart, cleaned and redone using Leak Lock (blue). I gave all the joints a full 24+ hour...