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just looking for input on tig welding magnesium and even some on aluminum. I’ve done aluminum tig, spool gun/push-pull and aluminum stick but by no means am great at it.
Ok, what do you do for the chance of fire? Weld it outside with a pile of sand near by if it’s a small piece. Catches fire bury in sand to snuff it out ?
Out prop shop only charges $100 for skeg repairs. I also may have a bare gear case for a 150 Optimax around here somewhere.View attachment 189998
First project for the new tig welder is putting new skeg on my 150 mercury. Found rock pile last weekend cost a skeg and a 4 blade aluminum prop.
Working through a propping issue on a patrol boat now. They were surplussing it and I grabbed it before it went to Nashville. The motor was mounted WAY to low and had a 3 blade 17P on it. I raised the motor and it kept hitting the limiter. Tried a 19p/3b and still too small but 21p/3b was too much. Settled on a 19p/4b Proptech SS. Trimmed down 5200, up 5600 RPM. Not a whole lot of rock here, but my river boats all run AL props!I’m using aluminum prop for the reasons seen here, known two many guys that have lost the whole lower unit due to a stainless prop. Running an alpha 4 18 pitch because the stock 3 blade black max 21 pitch would only get barely into the wot running range had bad hole shot and would blow out in the corners. Now it performs way better everywhere but top end which I dropped about 4-5 mph
This is a Triton that was old school built in TN. Most our boats around that time were low bid, from dealers and setup there. All of these boats this style had motors mounted way too low. They are stepped hulls. We had some Brunswick Trophy's that were decent boats and the newer Whaler LE boats are bad a$$, but they quit making them.My boat is a Lund 1875 impact and the motor was factory rigged at the dealer. As far as mounting hight I’d hope that mercury would have the mounting correct since Brunswick owns mercury, Lund, crestliner, Lowe and a bunch more brands. And I realize props are always a compromise but the factory one was useless in all my uses but top end that I don’t care much about. Does 43 with a boat full of people and gear pops right out of the water and runs 5500-5600 at wot.