Upgrading Delfino for summer cruising: high output alternator, engine fixes & more | Ep 27

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We made the most of the winter to tackle some of the boat work that would have been a lot more difficult while we were living aboard. During two trips to Brixham we worked on running cables for and install a new high output alternator, as well as making some other upgrades to our electrical system to keep it cool during our next season of cruising.
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15 июн 2024

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Комментарии : 16

@cobbe.l Месяц назад

You guys looking for those cables made me laugh as it brought back many memories from my time living on boats.

@rustbeltpipes Месяц назад

Ah, the classic "lose the drill bit down the hole" part of projects 😂

@DelfinoDiscovers Месяц назад

Can’t decide if I like it more or less than the “drop something in the sea” part of outside projects 😅

@StuartSutherland-1 Месяц назад

Top tip for pulling anything through conduit. Tie some string to a plastic bag, and “suck” the plastic bag through the conduit with your handheld Dyson. I promise it’s a game changer!

@DelfinoDiscovers Месяц назад

Nice, I'll have to give it a go! Are you ever worried that the bag will get stuck somewhere?

@StuartSutherland-1 Месяц назад

@@DelfinoDiscovers I tore up a carrier bag to a size I thought appropriate for the conduit. Tie the string around the middle of the bag so the “tails” of the bag are sucked first into the pipe. You can trial with a small piece of conduit first. If the string is light, a tiny piece of bag will work fine. Then pull a bigger string with the light one.

@groovienor Месяц назад

pipe/hose + string + cotton ball + vacuum cleaner = no yellow rod

@jasonchamberlin1532 Месяц назад

I feel your pain. I lost a ring spanner behind the headlining on our last boat. Still there 3 years later when I sold her.

@DelfinoDiscovers Месяц назад

Seems to be the way. Once we chartered a small yacht in Barcelona and I swear there was a dozen screws rolling around in a void underneath the bed

@coljhall Месяц назад

Looks fun lol..could you not have just run the mouse string in the conduit or even the cables before you installed the conduit rather than pulling in situ?

@DelfinoDiscovers Месяц назад

I do enjoy a lot of the boat projects 😅 I could've run the string for sure, but not so sure about the cables. Getting those conduits or large hoses in place takes quite a bit of wrestling (at a certain point in the video you can see that I have to pull it through in a specific way). I wouldn't have wanted to do that with a bunch of heavy copper cable inside the conduit as well!

@coljhall Месяц назад

@@DelfinoDiscoversI feel your pain! Just running a 50mm cable for windlass through corrugated conduit and its not fun eh lol

@jamesgrieve8276 Месяц назад

I have an array of magnets for retrieving dropped tools. You can get quite creative with them sometimes. 😄 I like the look of that suction pump. Would you mind tell me the make of it?

@DelfinoDiscovers Месяц назад

We sadly didn’t have a strong enough magnet to get it back out, we did try with the one that came with our mousing set but it was way too weak. The pump is this one from Amazon (the 500ml version) www.amazon.co.uk/SMOTIVEPRO-Suction-Automotive-Transfer-Capacity/dp/B08W4CS2Z9?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A1N2IL57N5NKRO