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If the compression on this thing is good than this is a steal. Long shaft on a 1978 is 23 inches so it is halfway between long and extra long. It is very easy to connect cables and turn it into a remote control kicker.

They are funded by Exxon

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I got lucky today. By sheer unexpected luck I picked up an OMC 15hp kicker bracket,the white one with a gas/oil piston. So the other bracket will come off and the "new" fancy one will take its place. That should be done by Tuesday. I can already see myself dragging the garden hose through the snow in order to test start the kicker. With the smell of 2 stroke in the air, Spring cannot be far away!

The reason why I have a 5 gallon tank for that 9.9 is because it is my backup in case the I/O causes trouble. I sometimes fish 15 miles north off shore , so I do need those 5 gallons to make it back in.

i completely rebuilt my 9.9 kicker over the past 2 weeks. Instead of straight wiring I put a set of cannon plugs of an old mercruiser wiring harness so I can unplug the kicker and put it away without too much wiring trouble. Tomorrow I will lower my kicker bracket 5 inches in order to make that old 2 stroke less of a noise hazard and a swim platform I picked up over the winter will be attached to the transom in order to carry a 5 gallon fuel mix for the 2 stroke. So yes, Spring over here is not in the air,but it is in my mind.

Wow, that sounds like it comes straight out of a Russian troll farm, or maybe an Ukranian one. Pap, I think you are being baited

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Thanks for the suggestion. In the meantime my wife is fighting to keep the laser lab open at the U of R. Higgs Boson is neither in my pay grade nor in my brain grade. If I am not mistaken, the Higgs Boson particle (the God particle) was observed in the accelerator in Europe last year, but it is not known so far if it is a form of energy that might be harnessed. I would put my bets on cold fusion , but that has been thirty years away for the past forty years, although significant progress has been made in the last few years. It seems that we are stuck with the more earthly forms of energy such as wind and sun for the near future.

There is a big wind farm off Block Island in state waters of Rhode Island that is working and on January 25 2017 A huge wind farm project was approved in the Atlantic off Long Island and all the way north until 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard. Technology has made great strides and attitudes have changed.

Environment as in skyline is often a local concern. The environment in the Appalachians has been destroyed by strip mining along with black long disease and acid rain. Gas drilling is destroying the water resources in Pennsylvania and causing thousands of small to medium earthquakes daily in Kentucky and Texas. Soon seismic sounding in the Atlantic will do great damage to the marine environment. That is just a small list out of many more. We all want our energy to be cheap and plentiful. On the Canadian side north of Gallo Island there is Wolves Island with many hundreds of windmills, but I read very little about protests there. Having windmills on Gallo Island is not pretty, but the energy produced there may save a mountain top in Virginia from being blown up or a few cases of deadly black long because of mining . Or slow down the acidification of our Adirondacks Lakes. So yes, environmental protection with the Windmills is a must,but so are the windmills. We are all on the same page in wanting the best for our lakes, so maybe we can try to work together by trying to find ways to get the best forward looking solution instead of stubbornly fighting a battle that we lost already.