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| What do people coat the trolling motor shaft with to make stow and deploy easier?
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Location: On the water | I have used WD-40 on the shaft and it has worked fine. |
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| Armor All works great. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Ah,...Ya... Shur,.. Ya bettchh Ya....... Puuttt some Verner shly on Dat Baby,.. and She'll move any way Ya want her too ! Ya Shurrrr.......... |
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| Which trolling motor are you talking about?
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Location: Kodiak, AK | For me, it's finding the sweet spot. I've never put anything on it. |
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| I'm gonna say they are talking about the Minn Kota trolling motors....
It's not the fact that you need to put something on it to make it slippery...you are deploying it wrong. I have seen it many many many times in my boat. Spend the time to learn how do deploy it correctly and you will see just how easy it is. |
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Location: Red Wing, Minnesota | Minn Kota recommends "Armor-All" for the shaft in the Owners manual.
It works well. |
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Location: Perryville, MO | I've gotta agree with the posts about using the right technique. My buddy gets in my boat and wrestles with the tm then lectures me about the need to put something on the shaft. Deploys for me effortlessly every time. Ticks him off too! Then I fish with him in his boat (with the super slippery shaft and exact same minnkota power drive tm) and I get to chuckle to myself while he performs the same darn wrestling maneuvers. I deploy it and it works fine. Really ticks him off! His tm shaft sure looks a lot nicer than mine though. |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I can say this about the new powerdrive minn kota i put on for this season, the stoy and deploy works 10x smoother then on the old system. Deploys easy and locks in smoothly. |
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| I have a power drive thats 5 years old, one trick that has helped me and everyone i have shown is.
When you grab the handle of the lock, pull on it and keep pressure on it, then while the pressure is allpied use the other hand and grab the motor shaft and slide tthe motor out.
By keeping "pulling" pressure on the lockhandle it will take the weight off the area the motor casing rests. With no weight, you have no binding. That trick has worked on every PD motor i have shown people. The big difference is i was there to show them ,not trying to type an explanition. It sound simple and it is, most people will only pull enough on the locking handle to get the catch the lock grab out of reach of the lock, but if you hold the pulling pressure with the motion of deploying the motor the motor come right out.
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Making trolling motor stow and deploy easier