Removing a navtex

[steve yates]

Anyone ever installed a racal navtex?
I need to remove this, and cannot for the life of me see how its attached. Can see no screws or bolts, struggling to believe its bonded on, as getting it off will pull off the veneer. Any ideas?

 

[steve yates]

Just to clarify, the screws you see just under are an eye for the Lee cloths to clip into.

 

[Poignard]

Have you tried sliding it upwards?

 

[Plum]

Anyone ever installed a racal navtex?
I need to remove this, and cannot for the life of me see how its attached. Can see no screws or bolts, struggling to believe its bonded on, as getting it off will pull off the veneer. Any ideas?
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Here is a picture of the rear. Looks like there is a bracket with two projecting lugs that clip into those keyhole slots on either side. Maybe you press both lugs on the bracket at the same time while pulling the navtex towards you or are there two knobs to unscrew?


Www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk

 

[Tranona]

Looks like the bracket at the top of the original picture. Difficult to get perspective from the installed picture but just check it has not been set into the bulkhead as the second photo seems to show a lot of depth of the casing.

 

[steve yates]

It does look quite deep, but I’m fairly sure that as highupon the bullhead like that, there isnt the depth for it to be inset.
no screws, but on the rhs are two metal lugs, I cant get any movement trying to bring the unit past them though.

 

[vas]

I installed an identical cased LOKATA (sp?)
that was 3-4yrs ago and I vaguely remember it was a pain.
I'll be onboard sometime tomorrow, I'll try to see if I can find out without taking lots of trim apart...

 

[Bilgediver]

This any help?


Lokata Navtex 1 and Racal Decca Yacht Navigator III

 

[steve yates]

Quite possibly, thanks. Will give it a go.

 

[steve yates]

That thread did help, forfuture searchers, the section of horizontal fins on the lhs of my pic lifts up and off revealing somecircuitry and two screws. Undo thesecand the whole unit will swing to theright and detach from the baseplate screwed onto the bulkhead behind.
Thanks all.