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Wire around Shaft

mickeydd

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"Experts are required.. I have

"Experts are required.. I have a question. Buddy of mind just bought a 32' bayliner for Boston. We were going through some stuff and came upon his shafts.
We noticed that on both shafts there was a battery cable attached to where his vibration isolator attached to the shafts. One is broke off and just the cable connecters are on the isolator.

My dumb ??? is, what the heck are theses? Are they ground wires? I have never seem anything like this?
Advice would be appreaciated, Thanks"
 
"What is the other end of the

"What is the other end of the cable hooked to? I can only imagine that they are ground cables. If he has the non-metallic spacers between the shaft and the gear, you no longer have an electrical bond to the shaft. This wire would complete that bond."
 
"Both ends of a 10" long c

"Both ends of a 10" long cable is attached or was attached to the same shaft. It was just wrap around the shaft and attached to where the other end could reach too.
I though it was some kind of ground also. No biggie, as I said never seen it before and were just going to reattach it so.
Thanks for the come back."
 
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