iangrant
Well-Known Member
Take Wiggo, spent time out of the water determining and fixing a fairly major event, then sure enough, off on a trip, boat says no, enough fun you've more work/running around to do.
A few evenings ago I thought it would be peaceful to pootle off down the harbour and anchor off, Mrs G thought that would be nice so just to make sure the anchor light was working - of course it bl**dy wasn't!
The top had melted/disintegrated with UV water got in and stuffed the bulb coroded the wires,
OK, nice easy job, until the wires revealed themselves as green all the way to the hole they dissapeared into at the top of the mast frame. Pulling more wire through wasn't happening so armed with a drill and four quids worth of two core flex set about rewiring from inside the cabin all the way to the new anchor light.
Ran the wire from the top and it was long enough, took down the panels in the wheel house and stuffed a wee screwdriver through the cable gland from the bottom up, taped the cable to the screwdriver but it was having none of it, so out with the drill and made a new hole, out came the drill with copper strands wrapped around it, oh well it was only the radar signal cable it had gone through!
Took the top off the cable gland, (one screw seized) drilled a bigger hole filled the whole area with silicone pulled the wires through and re-routed the radar cable to get more slack to joint it indoors. Put back together, did the joints, turned on for maximum smoke and yeeeeaa, all works again!
Oh and lost another day, because the outboard decided to stop weeing out of the tell tail. New impellor later and gearbox oil change for the hell of it..
Next, next, next
Wiggo if you're reading this good luck, I hope it all turns out OK.
Ian
A few evenings ago I thought it would be peaceful to pootle off down the harbour and anchor off, Mrs G thought that would be nice so just to make sure the anchor light was working - of course it bl**dy wasn't!
The top had melted/disintegrated with UV water got in and stuffed the bulb coroded the wires,
OK, nice easy job, until the wires revealed themselves as green all the way to the hole they dissapeared into at the top of the mast frame. Pulling more wire through wasn't happening so armed with a drill and four quids worth of two core flex set about rewiring from inside the cabin all the way to the new anchor light.
Ran the wire from the top and it was long enough, took down the panels in the wheel house and stuffed a wee screwdriver through the cable gland from the bottom up, taped the cable to the screwdriver but it was having none of it, so out with the drill and made a new hole, out came the drill with copper strands wrapped around it, oh well it was only the radar signal cable it had gone through!
Took the top off the cable gland, (one screw seized) drilled a bigger hole filled the whole area with silicone pulled the wires through and re-routed the radar cable to get more slack to joint it indoors. Put back together, did the joints, turned on for maximum smoke and yeeeeaa, all works again!
Oh and lost another day, because the outboard decided to stop weeing out of the tell tail. New impellor later and gearbox oil change for the hell of it..
Next, next, next
Wiggo if you're reading this good luck, I hope it all turns out OK.
Ian
