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Offline RuttNutt

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Major Upgrades this season
« on: Sep 03, 2019, 07:43 AM »
So I have an older Clam Kenai that just has a basic padded bench seat. Been looking at the new Eskimos with the swivel mesh seat since last season. Once I saw that, I got to thinking it would not be too hard to mount a swivel seat to my Clam. I looked for a replacement seat from all the major manufacturers but could not find one.

A couple weeks ago one of my hunting buddies said his dad got a nice seat for his ground blind. Turned out to be just what I was looking for! So I picked one up this weekend and just have to mount the swivel base on my sled. Think this is gonna work great!

So anybody else have any upgrades in the plans?



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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #1 on: Sep 03, 2019, 09:00 AM »
Nothing major here.  Unless I find a decent one man flip over for sale....   lol.
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #2 on: Sep 05, 2019, 06:53 AM »
I stopped at Home Depot yesterday after work to get some hardware to mount the seat. Didn't realize the swivel base was attached to the legs of the chair and the seat portion was not attached. Had to take the legs off and of course it was METRIC hardwarde and I only had English wrenches!  ::)

SO I stopped at Lowes on the way into work this morning for metric wrenches. Should be able to get it mounted tonight after work! Can't wait..................
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #3 on: Sep 05, 2019, 06:12 PM »
My main goal for this season is to finish my Smitty Sled I've been working on since last year whenever I had some free time which wasn't much.  One of the other reasons I wasn't too concerned with getting it finished which is just screwing it together was I was thinking about trying to paint an ice fishing scene on each of the risers.  I wasn't thinking of going too extreme, maybe just a tip up with the flag up and some trees in the background but with my artistic abilities that could end up being a big project.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #4 on: Sep 05, 2019, 07:59 PM »
LOL! I wouldn’t even attempt that. My painting ability is limited to solid colors out of a spray can.  ;)
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #5 on: Sep 05, 2019, 08:01 PM »
I got my new seat mounted tonight.


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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #6 on: Sep 05, 2019, 08:04 PM »
I think I’m gonna LOVE this thing!  @)

Perfect height now, with back support AND it swivels!


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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #7 on: Sep 05, 2019, 08:06 PM »
Folds down nicely- just have to turn it to the rear so it doesn’t stick out past the sled.


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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #8 on: Sep 06, 2019, 06:29 AM »

 That looks great RuttNutt
 

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #9 on: Sep 06, 2019, 06:59 AM »
Thanks Filet................. ...................... ..now the hard part: waiting til we get ICE to try it out!  ::)
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #10 on: Sep 06, 2019, 07:21 AM »
LOL! English wrenches....

 Looks good buddy.

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #11 on: Sep 06, 2019, 07:51 AM »
Looks good Pal and no reported battle injuries to boot.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #12 on: Sep 06, 2019, 10:46 AM »
Thanks guys! Yes, no injuries.............. ...................... ...but in the spirit of full disclosure- I did have to take the swivel bracket off after mounting it to the sled. (I thought I could mount the bracket first, and then the seat). Didn't realize I had to attach the seat before mounting the bracket!  ::)

But the end result came out great, so no harm done!  @)
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #13 on: Sep 07, 2019, 01:20 PM »
Looks like a comfortable sea! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #14 on: Sep 12, 2019, 01:14 PM »
Thanks- you too Uncle!
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #15 on: Sep 12, 2019, 10:15 PM »
What the he-- is an English wrench??????????  But the swivel chair looks inviting for the ice season!!!

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #16 on: Sep 13, 2019, 05:17 AM »
LMAO!!!!

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #17 on: Sep 13, 2019, 08:04 AM »
The one thing you can be sure of about the English wrenches is they're definitely not Ching-Chang-Pow wrenches.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #18 on: Sep 15, 2019, 08:07 PM »
No major upgrades this year, was considering a camera but not sure I want one. I am however gonna purchase a few of the new Okuma ceymars with the bait feeders 500 size

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #19 on: Sep 16, 2019, 08:49 AM »
What the he-- is an English wrench??????????  But the swivel chair looks inviting for the ice season!!!

I don't know.................. .........AMERICAN?!  ???  It is in inches instead of mm.................... ..........
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #20 on: Sep 16, 2019, 09:17 PM »
Oh standard wrenches.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #21 on: Sep 17, 2019, 06:47 AM »
Oh, STANDARD is the proper term? Thanks CHris- as you can probably tell, I'm not much of a mechanic!  ;D
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #22 on: Sep 17, 2019, 09:07 PM »
I would've never guessed.  LOL  Although you are definitely one of the most determined ice fishermen I know since you launched Operation Dingy.     ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #23 on: Sep 17, 2019, 10:07 PM »
Marcum LX-7 and a few mods to the sled.






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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #24 on: Sep 18, 2019, 09:55 AM »
actual it's imperial.... but us Americans call it standard cuz calling anything imperial just doesn't feel right to us.

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #25 on: Sep 18, 2019, 10:50 AM »
Wow I love this site! Can learn something new every time I read the posts! So always thought metric and SAE. What is SAE?
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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #26 on: Sep 18, 2019, 01:41 PM »
Threads. SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers. They basically set the standard thread and fitting sizes.

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #27 on: Sep 18, 2019, 03:51 PM »
Wow I love this site! Can learn something new every time I read the posts! So always thought metric and SAE. What is SAE?
Keep it safe! JDL

Or as the old timers call them right (standard) and wrong or foreign crap (metric).   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #28 on: Sep 19, 2019, 05:06 AM »
like we say in manufacturing... America is going metric, inch by inch.

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Re: Major Upgrades this season
« Reply #29 on: Sep 19, 2019, 06:06 AM »
like we say in manufacturing... America is going metric, inch by inch.
i believe it,my chrysler van is metric.i actually own more metric than sae because almost everything i work on like newer small engines are metric these days.   

 



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