Boat question
Mar 21, 2021 19:31:20 #
plumbob wrote:
Mine would kick on everytime i backed down the launch. Try that or tilt the boat as much as possible so you aren't waiting to long for enough water to activate the switch.
Haha...not sure how comfortable i am tilting the boat. Ill try the garden hose method 1st...if pump isnt working i can always drain it. I want to know now before i put her in the water.
Mar 21, 2021 19:33:01 #
Fredfish wrote:
Water is the best way, lifting the float only checks the mercury switch. If the float is cracked, water gets in and it doesn't float.
Gonna fill up bilge tomorrow, see what happens....i can always drill holes in the bottom of the boat to let the water out.
Mar 21, 2021 19:35:09 #
Danger25 wrote:
Haha...not sure how comfortable i am tilting the boat. Ill try the garden hose method 1st...if pump isnt working i can always drain it. I want to know now before i put her in the water.
By tilting i ment park it on a hill.
Mar 21, 2021 20:08:27 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Fredfish wrote:
Water is the best way, lifting the float only checks the mercury switch. If the float is cracked, water gets in and it doesn't float.
I hadn't even considered the possibility of a leaky float... That's a VERY good point, you make there, Fredfish!!
Mar 21, 2021 20:10:28 #
plumbob wrote:
By tilting i ment park it on a hill.
So not this then?
Mar 21, 2021 20:15:37 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Danger25 wrote:
So not this then?
¡¡Dad BURNIT!! ¿¿¿Which one of you guys said: "Yes, drill holes in the bottom of the boat."???
Mar 21, 2021 20:16:28 #
Able Man wrote:
¡¡Dad BURNIT!! ¿¿¿Which one of you guys said: "Yes, drill holes in the bottom of the boat."???
It worked for Shemp.
Mar 21, 2021 20:17:05 #
Able Man wrote:
I hadn't even considered the possibility of a leaky float... That's a VERY good point, you make there, Fredfish!!
Yeah Able, I've seen them crack from some frozen water left in the bilge. If you only check it by lifting it by hand you're really only checking the mercury switch inside. You have to verify that the float,floats.
Mar 21, 2021 20:19:15 #
Fredfish wrote:
Yeah Able, I've seen them crack from some frozen water left in the bilge. If you only check it by lifting it by hand you're really only checking the mercury switch inside. You have to verify that the float,floats.
Sounds like a man who knows his bilge floats. Thanks Fred, better to find out in my driveway than the river.
Mar 21, 2021 20:28:48 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Fredfish wrote:
Yeah Able, I've seen them crack from some frozen water left in the bilge. If you only check it by lifting it by hand you're really only checking the mercury switch inside. You have to verify that the float,floats.
Well, THERE'S an idea for the "entrepreneurially inclined" amongst us: ¡Build a better bilge pump float!
Mar 21, 2021 20:33:57 #
Danger25 wrote:
Sounds like a man who knows his bilge floats. Thanks Fred, better to find out in my driveway than the river.
There’s lots of folks on here experienced in bilge. 😂😂😂
Mar 21, 2021 20:34:57 #
Able Man wrote:
Well, THERE'S an idea for the "entrepreneurially inclined" amongst us: ¡Build a better bilge pump float!
Actually the expensive ones have electrical contacts that conduct when submerged. No float.
Mar 21, 2021 20:37:00 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Seems like it'd be a good idea, to build a cage for the bilge pump float, to keep debris of whatever sort might end up floating around down there, from "gummin' up the works", as it were. If you follow my reasoning... I've found ALL manner of "¿What on Earth is THIS?"; OR, "Gee, I've been LOOKING FOR that", down in various bilges.
Mar 21, 2021 20:37:14 #
Danger25 wrote:
Sounds like a man who knows his bilge floats. Thanks Fred, better to find out in my driveway than the river.
Yeah I've helped a few replace bad ones,Danger. You are absolutely right,the driveway is the place to find ALL problems.
Mar 21, 2021 20:39:57 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Fredfish wrote:
Actually the expensive ones have electrical contacts that conduct when submerged. No float.
THAT also sounds like a right good idea. Pretty "Fool-PROOF" that way, it sounds like.
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