Lewmar 16 Self Tailing

[Filkee]

How do I crack this safe? All the you tube biz is for newer models? No user serviceable parts?

 

[Filkee]

 

[Filkee]

Hitting it with a hammer was my first thought but I know that’s generally frowned upon.

 

[bgary]

Hitting it with a hammer was my first thought but I know that’s generally frowned upon.

Three rules of working on a boat:
1) always use the right tool for the job
2) a hammer is always the right tool
3) anything can be used as a hammer

 

[Joliba]

4) If a hammer doesn’t work, you haven’t hit it hard enough.

 

[Loren Beach]

Or as a Navy electrician friend told me (he served on a DD back in the 70's) their mantra was the "If a hammer doesn't work it must be an electrical problem..."

 

[bgary]

Or as a Navy electrician friend told me (he served on a DD back in the 70's) their mantra was the "If a hammer doesn't work it must be an electrical problem..."

Random aside.... many years ago I worked in PC support and was issued a toolkit which included a variety of screwdrivers and sockets, some wire-cutters.... and a hammer.

I really really wanted to use that hammer on someone's PC, but never found the right opportunity

 

[Filkee]

Random aside.... many years ago I worked in PC support and was issued a toolkit which included a variety of screwdrivers and sockets, some wire-cutters.... and a hammer.

I really really wanted to use that hammer on someone's PC, but never found the right opportunity

Our IT folks have a saying about certain repeat customers. Their tickets are referred to as PICNIC (problem is not in computer) which may be a time where a hammer would do the trick.

Now I get to decide how it goes back. The previous owner left me many options—all of which have been drilled and filled Since this was taken.

 

[bgary]

PICNIC (problem is not in computer)

<lol> we had those, called PIBCAK (problem is between chair and keyboard).

Oh, and yet another random aside - at my former employer, occasionally when a particularly troublesome PC appeared to be no longer worth the effort to repair, it was given one last test, fondly called "the gravity test". You'd take it up to the roof of the building and toss it over the edge. If it still didn't work after hitting the parking lot, 3 stories below, it was officially declared dead.

 

[Filkee]

<lol> we had those, called PIBCAK (problem is between chair and keyboard).

Oh, and yet another random aside - at my former employer, occasionally when a particularly troublesome PC appeared to be no longer worth the effort to repair, it was given one last test, fondly called "the gravity test". You'd take it up to the roof of the building and toss it over the edge. If it still didn't work after hitting the parking lot, 3 stories below, it was officially declared dead.

Ha, reminds me (and we could probably do this all day) of when I worked at a record company and we’d get particularly bad demo tapes. We kept golf clubs in the reception area and when one was truly, exquisitely bad, we’d tee it off out the front door. We were kind of mean.