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a couple of tips for guys like me 14 years 6 months ago #7395

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if your memory is like mine(bad),before i take something apart i take pictures of it,and also write on a piece of masking tape where it goes,like wires i do both.
like when i took out the headlights for the sunray i marked on a piece of tape which wire went where,then put the whole light assembally into a plasic freezer bag then marked port on one and starbord on the other because the holes for the screws will line right back up again if you put it back in the same place.
in the pics you will see where i took the pic of the control box to let me see where the wires go,i will also mark each one at a time,so i know where they go,because i have to redo some of them because a mouse got hungry for wires,lol
the 2nd pic was just so i could remember where the cable was set,so i get it right when i put the motor back on.
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Re:a couple of tips for guys like me 14 years 6 months ago #7400

Just remember to do back-ups on your hard drive where you keep all those old digital pics. I didn't and lost everything. Everything!

Frank

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Re:a couple of tips for guys like me 14 years 6 months ago #7412

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BOTH are great tips! I can never remember how things went together... I try to take tons of photos. When I first got my Glasspar home, I took 100's of shots of it from different angles before I took it apart- and there have been a lot of occasions that they came in really handy!

I also like to use either a measuring tape or a ruler in some of the photos, where there are items I may need dimensions on later- It can come in really handy when you're trying to figure out just how big something was, or exactly where it was located on the boat!

As for backing up- I do it regularly now, and in more than one location. I had a hard drive failure on my laptop, and lost all that... When I went to use my backup drive, IT failed too! What are the odds of that? I should have played the lotto that week :)

-Andrew

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