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Old 03-07-2003, 02:54 PM
Miles Offshore Miles Offshore is offline
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Ooooops. Learned that the hard way after drilling 4 new holes in my transom for my new hydraulic steering. Plenty of travel to starboard, but none to port. Lets see, how many times do I have to look at it before Im convinced that something is "not quite right". Lets see drill again. Ohhhh ,I am dyslexic, its supposed to be maesure twice and cut once. darn, lesson learned. Not so bad though because I have to fill and repair 6 holes from the former steering anyways, now I just have an additional 4. Now if I can just get that coarse thread fitting that screws into the bottom of the helm to quit leaking, I might be on to something!!!! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

By the way though, my console looks awesome, everything but te bottom have of the plug to the motor has now been rewired, put power to it all last night and walla, everything works.
One thing though, I have constantly had problems with my bottom machine interfering with the icom vhf radio.(did not have a problem with my old standard). Anyways I was told to wire fishfinder directly to thebattery, which I did, and guess what ??? Still have noise, I guess my next move will be a filter of some type. Cheers-craig

[ March 07, 2003, 02:00 PM: Message edited by: Miles Offshore ]
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Old 03-07-2003, 03:26 PM
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Miles, tough day? Life is obviously for learning. Wishing you a better weekend!
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Old 03-07-2003, 05:07 PM
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Gosh, how many times have I done that! In the old days, my brother used to say "why don't you take another hit?". My only excuse now is alzhiemer's or whatever they called that...

I cut a beautiful hole for a 6x9 speaker in the console of my Carver, exactly the size of the OUTSIDE of the speaker. 50 people asked me what it was supposed to be after I 5200ed the plug back in.

Somehow, we all rise to our level of incompetence.

Please post images of the console and/or wiring. It's the next thing I'm going to mess up...

Otto

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Old 03-07-2003, 11:52 PM
Miles Offshore Miles Offshore is offline
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Tough day it was. (probably will be a few more as well!!! Otto I have taken pictures already , Im trying to find something to shoot to use the remaining film in my camera, but there wont be a shot of the transom!!!I will post them soon. I need to watch some more bob vila i guess,NOT!!!

As far as"why don't you take another hit?". Certain screw up for sure,lolol-Ill leave that one alone!!

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