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Dec 10, 2009 | 06:28 PM

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Airzima

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Some good ideas

I am not sure what the price of a new cord is, because warranty covered it. I like the idea of the dialectic grease, that would help with all the mag chloride that they are putting on the roads. I really like the plug receptacle idea. Where did you locate those?

Dec 10, 2009 | 06:32 PM

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I found the one posted above online but I think he is high on his price.

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Dec 10, 2009 | 09:03 PM

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Just saw your post zmann, where did you find that receptacle? It looks a little smaller compared to the one I found.

west marine has them or most Marine supply places 20 bucks it is made by marinco

Dec 10, 2009 | 09:24 PM

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Airzima

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Good information

A marine supply sounds like a good place to start looking for this item. I will do some searching and see if I can find any place local that sells this item. Thank ya'll for all of the information and possible corrective actions that we can take to prevent these problems in the future.

Dec 10, 2009 | 09:33 PM

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What weight oil are you running? How old are the batteries? 4 tries to start at 9 above. Something's wrong. Mine starts just fine at -20.

Dec 10, 2009 | 10:12 PM

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I ran over my extension cord with my snow blower, LOL... You should have seen that snow jumping while it was getting yanked around the tines and blowing the circuit breaker in the garage. It loosened the heater plug from the cord on my block heater a bit, but it still works. Just kinda flimsy.

It bugs me so I went down and bought a Marinco Plug. I found one at Bass Pro Shop, on line, but when calling their contact number they said they had no record of a Marinco Plug. Maybe I got a bone head for an operator. Anyway, I ended up finding an RV store this morning that could order one for me. It will be in the shop next Friday. The cost for a 15 amp Marinco Plug was 28 bucks. I probably could have found one cheaper somewhere else but got tired of looking so I ordered it this morning.

Dec 10, 2009 | 10:35 PM

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here is a link if anybody wants to buy online West Marine: 15A Battery Charger Inlet Product Display 710&Ne=0&Ntt=marinco&Ntk=Primary Search&Ntx=mode matchallpartial&Nao=0&Ns=0&keyword=marinco&isLToke nURL=true&storeNum=5002&subdeptNum=9&classNum=311