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pulleye16

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Its been a few months since last ice so check and recharge those batteries (flashers and augers) to keep them in tip-top shape!

Wouldn't be a bad idea to open that fish house up to check for mice and mold either!

Did you drain or stabilize those gas augers?

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I stabilized my gas auger. Fire up the auger and run for a few minutes and charge the vexilar are both on my to do list for the weekend. It's all being stored at my parents since we moved and are currently renting so while I'm in the cities gotta get this stuff done. See it's the end of May and still thinking about ice fishing stuff.

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Good Idea, Thanks for the reminder, The calander shows about 6 months til go time. I need to do some auger carb work... will a small engine repair shop be the best? Need to replace the gas hose and poss. a carb kit, any one have some thoughts?

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Bought my first Vexilar this past winter. It was used but had a good battery. Do I want to turn it on to drain the battery or should I just hook it up to the charger to keep the battery good during the off season?

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Should be NO need to drain the battery. just top it off-some batteries that off charge to much in the off season can have a tough time reaching 100% again. Some people may even keep there batteries on a trickle charge or maintenance charge during the whole season or extended periods of time.

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Put vexilar on charger Saturday, 4 minutes later went from showing red to green but I left it overnight anyways.

Auger gave me more trouble. I left it with stabilized gas in it, when I tried to start it it acted like it was flooded. Also I didn't have the gas cap vent open on it so not sure if that had anything to do with it. When I went to start it and pulled the rope gas would escape from everywhere it seemed, out the gas cap and out from around the pressure valve. Once I got it started which only started when I had the throttle pushed to full it started running just fine. I ran it wide open for the first 2-3 minutes and then it idled just fine. Kept it idling and/or on throttle off and on for the next 10 minutes. Wiped it up and put it back away with the gas cap vented this time. Wondering if I should take it in and have it tuned up and looked at or not? It's a SM lazermag 8" going into it's 3rd season. Ran stock till end of this past year, now it's running AMSOIL mixed around a 70:1.

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