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No no fix. You have to install a total hydraulic system and delete the existing one to do it right. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Put it where it will fish the best and take the platform off if you need to. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

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Its pretty typical, your charger isn't bad because its doing that, most all will.

It’s your battery charger. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I just get flares at the Walmart, they are fine. I think the electronic stuff needs to mature. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I can’t remember where but they are out there. I bought one years ago and there are a few making custom tanks reasonably. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Hand held are only designed for in the harbor use. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Start with high octane gas and E3 plugs and it will help alot maybe enough for what you need. What jarred said is very true, thats why kickers are made different than regular motors.

I have a single Big John mast. Bear no pulley Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Ok cool, you're not so crazy after all. If you look around the internet there are a lot of pictures of guys mounting the kickers to the swim platform. There are brackets that make it happen very easy and secure and allow you to place the kicker in the best position for your application. I would look into those and see if it would get you where you want to be. I would think the brackets off to the side would place the motor out to far from the side. Check the control configuration first. What I mean is the steering control has an optimal distance from the main motor to work properly, find out what that is and reverse engineer it.

There are better ways to get to 70 feet. The problem with your plan is when a fish hits, (you know the big one you absolutely do not want to lose) you need to keep tension on the fish and with that snap weight its going to be very hard not to get a sag in the line, and that means slack in the line to the fish. Once you give him a second of slack off he goes..... You may do a drop weight that comes off or a sliding weight on a shorter core (like a torpedo) but you better be really good at handling the pole. It's just easier to go to a dipsy diver and eliminate all the potential failure points of a lead line with a contraption.

Im thinking you may be crazy. Why are you doing this? If so just have a bracket then definitely crazy, but if you have a reason mayby not.... You just said a bracket, a bracket for what?

Alum is the way to go, Its hard to picture what you're describing but you can make it very strong with alum, and the 6061 will work fine. The differences in the alloys in your usage is very small so what you want is what is available at a reasonable cost. 6061 is what you would probably choose anyway if you could choose any of them. If welding it then makes sure it all is taken into account with what needed to weld properly. Don't fret about the differences in alloy but the design is more important in your project. I have worked with alum with boats a great deal and its great to work with. Some people think you're making a space station so they go a bit overboard in worrying about things that would take 1K years to be a real problem.

Freeking Ice is being made at night, melts during the day but damn it's been cold.