If we required an IQ test, we would eliminate half of those running for office.
They need to require an IQ test to be allowed to do a lot of things, vote, drive, have kids, teach, most jobs, and to own power tools.
I've got a neighbor that's good for a new mower every few years, sometimes more often, he buys only top of the line rear bagger models with all the bells and whistles. But he's not capable of using it without either hitting his septic vent pipe or tripping on the bag and letting it run away into the bushes or garden. Its the reason I put a fence around the garden. I told him it was keep rabbits out, but its for him when he slips and falls and lets go of his mower with the towel tied around the bars for cruise control.
I answered an ad this morning for a 9.9hp Honda, a 2006 tiller short shaft, rope start. The guy said it runs but the lid won't stay on it. I head over there in the pickup, its about 10 miles away. (I had replied to his ad about a month ago, he finally got back to me).
I get there and he's got the motor laying on the ground in the grass. He then proceeds to try and start it with it laying on the ground. Probably a good thing the tank had no hose.
I had one of those old die cast Evinrude stands in the truck so I hung it on there and checked the compression and got 155 on both holes.
He was asking $200 for it, the prop is beat up but likely from an idiot dragging it around the yard or garage. The skeg is good, and the rest of the motor is clean bu the cover has road rash and its been sanded with 10 grit sandpaper and painted with a brush. He said he had to buy a used cover for it and the used cover was camo so he had is brother paint it. I somehow held back asking him if his brother was 10 or if he used finger paint.
I told him its a pig in a poke, I can't hear it run and parts are expensive, he then tells me he knows, they wanted $600 for a new cover but that was more than he paid for the whole boat. I told him I'd gamble $50 because I see $500 worth of parts it needs right away. He moans about paying more than that for it but finally says 'That's all you'll pay? I said "Any more and I'm taking too big a risk, "get it running and we'll talk some more' and I starting packing up my tools, as I shut the tailgate he came over and said 'Take it'. I handed him two twenties and a ten, laid it in the back of the truck and left. I went back to see when the ad was put up but it said the add expired when i got home and checked. The pic in the ad showed the motor without the cover on a boat, but he had no boat there and didn't seem to know a thing about motors or boats.
Its still in my truck, when I'd done building it a stand I'll get a few pics but its not bad, a closer look when I got home looks like the air box and the carb linkage is a bit butchered up, someone was in there with a too big screwdriver and split the plastic and some of the carb links are held on with bread ties and tape. It has spark, it has compression, and I did slide it back and drain the lower unit and all I got was oil out of it. The prop looks like its fixable with a file but if it looks like a runner, I'll just order it a new carb, water pump, airbox, and prop and go from there. If i put a couple hundred into it, I'm still in it a lot cheaper than buying one running, and even then, running don't mean its right either. I have little doubt I'll end up with a good running Honda 9.9hp for under $300 in the end. If I was looking to flip it, chances are it wouldn't sell for much more here these days but if i ship it to my cousins place in PA, it'll snag a grand in a day or less. Best of all its not all salted up.
He did hand me a packet with it and I just noticed there's also a signed 'Title' for the outboard from Missouri. Never had one of those before. No wonder its not all salt eaten.
They need to require an IQ test to be allowed to do a lot of things, vote, drive, have kids, teach, most jobs, and to own power tools.
I've got a neighbor that's good for a new mower every few years, sometimes more often, he buys only top of the line rear bagger models with all the bells and whistles. But he's not capable of using it without either hitting his septic vent pipe or tripping on the bag and letting it run away into the bushes or garden. Its the reason I put a fence around the garden. I told him it was keep rabbits out, but its for him when he slips and falls and lets go of his mower with the towel tied around the bars for cruise control.
I answered an ad this morning for a 9.9hp Honda, a 2006 tiller short shaft, rope start. The guy said it runs but the lid won't stay on it. I head over there in the pickup, its about 10 miles away. (I had replied to his ad about a month ago, he finally got back to me).
I get there and he's got the motor laying on the ground in the grass. He then proceeds to try and start it with it laying on the ground. Probably a good thing the tank had no hose.
I had one of those old die cast Evinrude stands in the truck so I hung it on there and checked the compression and got 155 on both holes.
He was asking $200 for it, the prop is beat up but likely from an idiot dragging it around the yard or garage. The skeg is good, and the rest of the motor is clean bu the cover has road rash and its been sanded with 10 grit sandpaper and painted with a brush. He said he had to buy a used cover for it and the used cover was camo so he had is brother paint it. I somehow held back asking him if his brother was 10 or if he used finger paint.
I told him its a pig in a poke, I can't hear it run and parts are expensive, he then tells me he knows, they wanted $600 for a new cover but that was more than he paid for the whole boat. I told him I'd gamble $50 because I see $500 worth of parts it needs right away. He moans about paying more than that for it but finally says 'That's all you'll pay? I said "Any more and I'm taking too big a risk, "get it running and we'll talk some more' and I starting packing up my tools, as I shut the tailgate he came over and said 'Take it'. I handed him two twenties and a ten, laid it in the back of the truck and left. I went back to see when the ad was put up but it said the add expired when i got home and checked. The pic in the ad showed the motor without the cover on a boat, but he had no boat there and didn't seem to know a thing about motors or boats.
Its still in my truck, when I'd done building it a stand I'll get a few pics but its not bad, a closer look when I got home looks like the air box and the carb linkage is a bit butchered up, someone was in there with a too big screwdriver and split the plastic and some of the carb links are held on with bread ties and tape. It has spark, it has compression, and I did slide it back and drain the lower unit and all I got was oil out of it. The prop looks like its fixable with a file but if it looks like a runner, I'll just order it a new carb, water pump, airbox, and prop and go from there. If i put a couple hundred into it, I'm still in it a lot cheaper than buying one running, and even then, running don't mean its right either. I have little doubt I'll end up with a good running Honda 9.9hp for under $300 in the end. If I was looking to flip it, chances are it wouldn't sell for much more here these days but if i ship it to my cousins place in PA, it'll snag a grand in a day or less. Best of all its not all salted up.
He did hand me a packet with it and I just noticed there's also a signed 'Title' for the outboard from Missouri. Never had one of those before. No wonder its not all salt eaten.
