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Things I Found While Looking For Something Else – Part VI
There were articles in Bloomberg and in “The Week” about overdraft fees. Both articles commented on how Federal regulators are looking into bank practices when it comes to these fees. Apparently the Feds (under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) are urging banks to offer no-overdraft accounts and are thinking about drafting rules that stop any […]
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Part Supersession – RPL/Replacement Parts – And New Part Numbers
Marine engine and transmission manufacturers often supersede their part numbers. At times, it is because there has been an engineering change or some improvement to the part. Other times, it is due to a change in the vendor that actually makes the parts (or supplies components to the manufacturer). And sometimes, though not very often, it […]
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Volvo Penta’s High Capacity Fuel Filter and the Battle Against Ethanol
We have discussed the problems related to ethanol in fuel in an earlier blog (Ethanol and Your Marine Engine), but Volvo Penta has been re-emphasizing a couple of earlier bulletins dealing with this issue. Below is a Volvo Penta bulletin talking about the high capacity filters. Volvo Penta states that this filter “is especially useful […]
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XDP Upgrade Promotion (ends 7/31/14)
Recently, Volvo Penta announced the launch of a three month XDP Upgrade Program (ending 7/31/14) that affects all registered Volvo Penta XDP owners. This program allows registered owners to swap out their XDP drives for either a DPS-B drive and transom shield package or a DPS-B Ocean X drive and transom shield package. The price […]
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Repair Kit for Corroded Exhaust Pipe 31-44 Series
Kit Number 3581114 (3.5″ exhaust pipe) – Click to add this part to your shopping cart Kit Number 3581115 (4.0″ exhaust pipe) – Click to add this part to your shopping cart Loosen the exhaust pipe elbow and bellows. Grind down the upper edge of the exhaust pipe so that it becomes even. Check that […]
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First Golf Game of the Season
The first golf game of the season was on April 3rd at the Sheepscot Links in Whitefield, Maine. This is George about to chip up onto the #1 green. We had to make a course rule that if one’s ball disappeared in the snow or the mud, you were allowed to dig it out before […]
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The Heartbleed Bug
Brian, our security guru, immediately confirmed that Marine Parts Express was protected from this bug and that our systems were and are secure. Below is an article published in “Fermilab Today” written by Irwin Gaines that is one of the best and most comprehensible explanation on how Heartbleed worked. Comments? Questions? Suggestions for topics for […]
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Things I Found While Looking For Something Else – Part V
by J.D. Neeson, President There was a snippet in “The Week” talking about China’s recently announced plan to move 100 million more farmers into the cities over the next six years. Not only is this a massive number of people to move in only six years (one-third of the U.S. population), but there are questions […]
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Repairing Volvo Penta EDC Display Panels
by J.D. Neeson, President Volvo Penta no longer supplies the EDC display panel that many people still use on their diesel engines. It was sold under a variety of different part numbers with the most recent number being 881674. We have looked everywhere for these and no one seems to have them. Volvo Penta does not offer any solution […]
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The Evil Credit Card Empires or How a Class Action Suit Has No Class
by JD Neeson, President Visa-MasterCard recently settled a class action suit resolving claims by merchants that the credit card companies colluded in setting excessive fees. The general consensus is that the credit card companies got away with murder. The total settlement is around eight billion which is a tiny slice of the total pie. What […]
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