Boatlift is in place and working

How long will it be before someone comes along and tells you that you need a chain guard on that thing? If it's in view of the public I bet it won't be long. It's amazing that any of us survived out childhood during the '50s, according to all the current safety regs we all should have been cut to pieces by the age of

looks very nice. I especially like how your (supposedly) mild steel parts like that bracket look so shiny after cleaning.

I think someone just did (:

Great job in any case.

Hoh, golly, ay tank Mr. Isdahl wass gonna get me one of dem from da Cities, yoo betcha. Odderwise, da guy in Starbuck offa 29 hass a buncha bikes I could get one offa, ya know.

Bead blasted and zinc plated. Lotsa zinc.

Oh no! Not me! I'd mount razor blades on the chain. :-)

Yup, he did good.

Don Foreman wrote: "It sure beats turning that big handwheel 45 turns every time I want to go fishin' for a little while!"

Now that you have that neat electric lift it's moot, but before, when you had to do the 45 turns, way didn't you just leave the boat in the water? Bob

Connector that fits the electric trolling motor socket in the boat.

That wouldn't be "Minnesota Nice" any more than telling me to make my mechanism safe for fools who would trespass on my dock and try to operate it. That ain't how things work in these parts. Folks don't mess with other people's stuff.

The motor is STILL yellow!

Nice job Don. Need more projects like this on "metalworking".

I wondered when you'd check in, Tom!

Beauty job! I'll have to send pix of my boat davit that I built on Lake Erie 20 some years ago. I painted it with Rustolium fish-oil primer and Emron. I can't believe the paint is still flawless.

Yellow is ok if one wants - suspect it is a proto-type model being readied for finals.

I noticed the power - flying in the air - bound to be a power spec issue... :-)

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Tom Gardner wrote:

The motor is yellow because that's how I found it. Finals? Stuff I build is "final" when it works, at least until there's some reason to change something. I rarely build more than 1 of anything, certainly never two or more exactly alike. Tom, if I ever need to paint the motor, IT WILL BE PURPLE!!!

------- "Make no mistake, we're put on Earth to fart around." Kurt Vonnegut, "Mindquake"

Cheeessssshhhh, I can't believe after spraying Emron, that *you're* still flawless.... :) That was (could be) some nasty stuff (but I guess there's worse out there today). Ken.

No spray, BRUSH...didn't care about finish!

Don,

WhatcanIsay ? Characteristically ingenious ! Supercallifragillisticexpiallidosious ! Hey, I can't even spell that - how about just plain "Cool" ?

Bob Swinney