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• I'd like to talk to you about sailboat diesel engine panels,...
  • Here's my take.....
    • I like that thinking. It is easy (to re-do), and the material is scap.
      • Mebbe? Leave enough wire in the runs to trim the ends now or at a later date?
        • I envision enough to pull the panel out for easy work. I'm headed to the boat with wire cutters,...
      • A rewarding project that I should have done years earlier ...
  • Looks great Tom
  • I wish I could sleep as well as a happy dog
    • Amen.
      • Walk a couple miles pulling a 185 pound man so fast he's stumbling. You'll sleep too.
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  • Hour meter...
    • I may add one but I can't normally put on a hundred hours in a season. So engine stuff is annually
      • My boat came with a failed hour meter
        • I use the hour meter to note run time for fuel calcs...
          • Does that mean it's a fluke when you can sail? Heheheheheheh...I'm so easily amused.
            • At the lake last Thursday....speaking of flukes.
            • Re: Does that mean it's a fluke when you can sail? Heheheheheheh...I'm so easily amused.
              • We learn to cherish the days when the wind blows just right!!
                • Gotta say this about that photo.......
                  • That drifter/reacher/spin is a nice idea...
                    • It was a hank on with hanks about every 6' or so. Back then I had no roller furling.
  • Looks very nice, Tom
    • Yes I have the old fashioned Cheroble type of Amp meters. Check out my wiring. ABYC
      • NICE!
        • Thanks. The best part of this project, is what goes away. Here's the old panel hole and wire chase.
          • Looks much like the mess I've been dealing with, Tom.
            • On your boat or you Rover?
              • Both, now that you mention it.
                • Having done this, it seems like the simplest way to upgrade my DC panel, is to build my own.
                  • Probably easier than the instrument panel you just built
                    • That's great! I need even less circuits.
                    • electric macerator pump
                      • No macerator pump
                        • I'd make labels for you
                          • Thanks, Larry
                        • If you want the real ones
                          • Mainesail told me about that option when I built the panel
                            • Labels are a joke. Like cable TV: 700 channels and nothing is on(or correct)
                              • That could certainly be done
                              • Just get a label maker...
                    • Agree on the convenience of ATC fuse boxes
                  • Be careful!
                    • Wow! Nice work, Ray. I have a question on your fusing.
                      • One was for alternator
                      • Geez! Talk about anal......
                        • Re: Geez! Talk about anal...... Nice!
          • Hey, salvage that nice Stewart Warner engine hour meter...
            • That quit at 2003 hours, on the second engine. I get no resistance. Dead?
          • I see the need for new.......it's gonna be so gorgeous!!
  • A nice fellow in Florida over on Sailnet, found a Hobbs Engine hour meter in his shop.
    • Plus it feels good to have a new engine,...(great for resale!)
    • Sweet!
    • Good things happen to good people.
    • Re: A nice fellow in Florida over on Sailnet, found a Hobbs Engine hour meter in his shop. Yeah!!!