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Old 12-13-2018, 12:49 AM   #15
tiltrider1
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Thieves are not very bright and they don’t carry a lot of tools. For years we had a dealership that sold small sailboats. Everyone had a 2 to 10 hp outboard. Never lost an outboard that was bolted on. Tried all the different locks and eventually the thieves figured out how to break the locks. In an effort to stay ahead of the thieves we took a grinder and rounded the nuts. We had a spiral socket that is made just for removing rounded nuts. Our marina was downtown and non gated. This required us to be a little more extreme in theft prevention.
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