Friday November 27, 2015

Post date: Nov 29, 2015 5:20:51 PM

Picked up a pickup truck's load of cut hardwood from trees I had felled this summer. Going to stack them out back.

Moved our mailbox on the West Rd about 50 yds south of where it was to get it out of the way of the driveway for a new house on the road and to allow us to pickup the mail when coming from the South (Augusta/Waterville)

Painted most of Mola Mola's mast with used motor oil to preserve it.

Started taking apart Mr Heater Propane construction heater. Not sure yet what part is bad.

Fixed chainsaw (high carb adjustment was too low). Turned the screw out a few turns and it runs great at full speed now. Before the fix it would die as soon as it started digging into the wood. It's a cheap Poulin Pro but I've had good luck with them in the past. At least as good as my old pro Jonsered saw.

Ran down to Yarmouth to do some stuff to Brizo. Measured the O.D. of the stern tube behind the stuffing box so I can order the new dripless stuffing box. It's 1.5" and the prop shaft is 7/8"

Tightened up the tarp covering lines on brizo.

Cut out the old cutlass bearing with my recip and then hammer and chisel to get the pieces out. have to be careful to not damage the surrounding fiberglass. could not find a set screw holding it in, now a cooling water entry port ahead of it into the stern tube. If we send some of the engine cooling water thru the dripless stuffing box we may not need holes. However, I'm not sure where the cooling water will come from? before the water from the heat exchanger hits the muffler? That will be 180 degree water!

Marked with the engine jig and pulled the foam forms for the engine rails out and brought home to try to shape the 4x4s.

Long productive day!

Making the prop backplate for the Harbor Freight puller

Yanmar 3gm30 mounting jig

Pulling the prop

Its a metal Cutlass so I'm slicing bits out so I can collapse it. There's no setscrew that I could find and no water entry points ahead of it. Might add both.

Here comes the big piece

A tiny bit of damage to the Cutlass home.. will wipe a little epoxy into it with a gloved finger. I don't see why a metal cutlass is required but I may replace with the same to be safe. There's was about 1/16 to 1/8" play in the old one, which I think is quite a bit.