JohnVChampion
03.06.2021 4:14:13
Re: diy ballast/fat sack ideas [links]
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Re: diy ballast/fat sack ideas [links]
So I think I'd have to ask why reinvent the wheel? Is there a reason you don't want to just buy some appropriately sized fat sacs for the areas you're considering, along with the matching pump system?
How about a $15 air mattress from WalMart? Not the pool/toy type, but the heavy camping type. here
Re: diy ballast/fat sack ideas
I don't want to sound like a "no no" but you shouldn't use sand, rocks, anchors, lead weights, weight lifting weights, or anything solid, it's dangerous. Only use water. It's heavy, it's free, it's disposable. If you swamp your boat or take a wave, solid items like sand or wieghts will weigh down your boat and sink it further. If you swamp your boat with water ballast on board, the water has no net weight, since it's water floating in water. You can then simply pump it out or in an emergency take a knife to it and let it flow back into the lake. [links]
Next I drilled the upper hull just below the rubber bump strip for 5 bilge outlets. 2 per side at the back and 1 at the front passengers side. I drilled a 2� hole from the ski locker over and up into the locker under the passengers seat. Each of the sacs was fitted with a 1� vent hose out one of the top glands. This allows me to fill and not have to worry about bursting the sacs. When the sacs are full the extra water just pours out the respective outlet. here
The electrical connection was relatively straight forward. I used 30amp red and black wire to each pump. This was routed round the drivers side in below the lip on the deck along with the speedo tubes. I removed the drivers side vinyl covered cup holder/12 volt outlet panel below the Morse control. Just behind the front curved section, I carefully cut the vinyl and chiselled out a rectangular hole for each switch. I connected the 3 switch commons and lives using 8AWG wire which ran along the morse control cables to in front of the drivers foot board. The cable was then run round under the front seating to the battery. A 40A inline fuse holder and fuse was fitted. here
- When you say "front" are you meaning all the way in the bow, in the center locker, what? The 205V/X-star doesn't have a lot of storage, so to cram sacks in the front area would not be feasable to have other stuff in the boat (like bumpers, anchor, etc.)
Next you need to drill a 2" hole in the hull. This is where your ballast system draws its water. Some people tee into the engine cooling water hose for this but there are several problems - If you try and fill while running the engine you could overheat it, you will not get very much water as the raw water pump is pretty thirsty and this is not how Mastercraft do it! Placement of the dedicated ballast inlet is fairly critical and there are a few things to look out for. I fitted mine just behind the front engine mount on the passenger side. You have to make sure you position the inlet so that there is room to screw on the 90 degree bend � not to far forward or it fouls on the engine mount, not to far left or it goes through a spray rail on the under side and not to far right or it hits the sump. Make sure to use marine sealant on the underside and around the threads of the nut. Fit the leaf grill on the underside of the hull using brass screws and predrill the holes. Next screw on the 90 degree bend, then the ball valve and one way valve using PTFE tape. I used a 1.5� hose adaptor after the one way valve and secured the 1.5� hose with a hose clip. more
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My fat sacs were old and only had the upper water glands. They filled no problem but wouldn�t empty as air would get drawn in from the vent hoses. here
Step 3. Once you are ready to start emptying the sacs you can plug the cigarette adapter into the cigarette lighter.
Fly High has a wide variety of bag sizes making them a great fit for almost any wakeboard boat. All of Fly High's fat sacs and ballast bags are built in the USA from an extremely durable Valmex material, the same material used in whitewater rafts.
Fly High Ballast Bags
Step 4. When the bag is finished draining, remove the Elevate Turbo Pump and hold it up in the air to drain any remaining water that may be in the hose.
Step 1. Remove the Fly High Quick Twist Top Cap and lock in the Elevate Ballast Pump. [links]
Step 2. Take the 1-1/8" ballast hose and gently place it over the side of your boat.
I have more than tripled my Testicle size over the last seven years. I’m talking about size of testicles, not inflated scrotum
I’m also talking about the original size of my testicles seven years ago verses today when not pumped.
The Testicles can be enlarged. I notice quite a few people who say it’s impossible. Well wrong.
It can be done but you must have an extra amount of patience. Penis pumping, scrotum pumping is much faster to achieve and those who expect this level of speed will fail in Testicle enlargement.
Originally my testicles were just a moderate hand full for my wife. Now they each are a complete hand full for her.
This is after not pumping for at least ten days.
I’ll use general terms regarding a comparison to common things to state my size gains.
When I started my left testicle was about the size of a normal native “or hard shell” pecan.
The right was roughly twice that.
Today before I started pumping and I have not pumped for two weeks, my left testicle is about the size of a standard hens egg. The right almost three times that.
This has been a slow process but it has worked.
It’s not complicated so here is what I did and continue to do.
I use a comfortable gasket, “home made” and a Bull Master.
After getting in the tube I pump to about eight inches. DO NOT START WITH THIS!
After some fifteen to twenty minutes fluid, “blood, cirrus or whatever” fluid has filled the Testicles to the max without any stretching.
Holding at the original pressure there will eventually be a sensation of the Testicles being squeezed. At that point I raise the pressure difference to about
Ten to eleven in. HG depending on comfort.
FACT: If you are not feeling the pressure as if being squeezed quite briskly you are not doing anything that will cause any enlargement.
When you first start pumping you may “as I did” not notice any pressure in the Testicles before you must quit due to edema in the Scrotum at a level you should
Stop at unless you want a balloon. I really do not want this. Yes I have over the years experimented with it. Including saline inflation. It’s entertaining but not very
Satisfying for me.
When starting out you will have very slow fluid flow into the Testicles so you just may not notice it for some time. Took about six months for me to attain fluid
Flow fast enough to cause pressure in the Testicles before too much Scrotum inflation.
When it first was noticeable for me I was driving a sports car with quite narrow seating. I had not pumped for about a week.
I just suddenly became aware that as I was using the clutch and brakes that for the first time in my life I could actually sense the presence of two hard “well not
Too hard” lumps between my legs. Actually was feeling it with the inside of my legs. I was pleasantly surprised.
Today in that same car I have to make sure the Testicles are place on or near the top of my thighs to be comfortable.
To put it simply, yes you can increase the size of your testicles. It will take time and lots of patience.
I will say it again. You must pump over time enough to create large enough fluid paths to inflate the Testicles before the Scrotum is over done.
You must, “repeat must” have a pressure in the Testicles that will over time stretch the tissues and you must do it long and often enough to cause microscopic
Permanent increases.
It will work! For the die hard nay Sayers.. Sorry but you are wrong. Do not let these people cause you to give up. Just stay with it.
I have just finished a two hour session which had almost doubled the size of the Testicles before the gains mostly became invisible due to the inflation of
The Scrotum. I was just enjoying it so much I kept it up until I decided enough is enough.
Good luck. Do not listen to those experts who have just not had the patience and or time to invest in the exercise to get it done.
There is always those who due their inability to do something will declare it impossible. It is a human trait we all at some level have to over come in many
Fields of endeavour.
Recently I had to fess up to my new FAA medical examiner. She was insistent that we do a biopsy on them, “especially the right one.”
I finally had to tell her the truth or find another examiner. She looked at me for a while with an odd look and said she would pass me for my medical
Required for my ATP pilots license medical. She also said she would be doing some research on the subject.
Six months later when I had to go back for another exam she said she had found no reason to do a biopsy due to my activities. She said she saw no real
Reason to think there was any danger in it except for possible injury if it got out of hand.
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