Once upon a time, oh, last spring.............
I had bought the boat the previous Aug. ('91 Grumman UH SF 184 with a 70 'Rude hanging off the back), ran it @ to finish the season, with the "comes with a fish finder", ( a Hummingbird Bass Pro Limited Addition finder, circa 1991)
Big feature is side and bottom sounding. Black n white screen, pics of fish. Basic but it works well.
Winter comes, I peel that finder off, add my 2 new ones, (Lowrance E-lite and Santa's gift to me- a Ray Marine Dragon fly).
"Hmmmm, lets mount this Hummingbird on my bow E-lectric trolling motor. All I REALLY need is to know where the bottom is when trolling on the E motor".
So I do..................
Flash forward this past summer.
Every now and again I find a drop er 2 of this BLACK sticky goo dripping from the transducer hole at the bottom.
I hook up the boat to the truck, peel the cover off the boat and find goo!
As summer went on, it got more and more, like a spoon full or more each week???
One day I filled the hole with silcone thinking it'd cure the goo piles on my bow carpet.
The goo started to spew out where the wire goes into the "puck" plastic???
Makes me think there is psi building up in there?????
Now, keep in mind during all this the transducer worked like a charm!!!
Fall comes, I drag the boat home, I just removed that finder set up, ("OK, before I shelve this finder lettme see what a new transducer for this goes for", look on E bay for a new transducer, over $100!!!.
A Lowrance 3 color unit is $99, so I have a new one to install on the bow.
What is that black goo?
Reminds me of the old magnetic ballasts in fluorscent lights, the P.C.P. would be in them. When they went bad the black goo would boil and drip out all over!
That the stuff that causes cancer!!
It can't be the same "stuff" now, but..........
Ideas of what and more important HOW it started to ooze?
Joe
I had bought the boat the previous Aug. ('91 Grumman UH SF 184 with a 70 'Rude hanging off the back), ran it @ to finish the season, with the "comes with a fish finder", ( a Hummingbird Bass Pro Limited Addition finder, circa 1991)
Big feature is side and bottom sounding. Black n white screen, pics of fish. Basic but it works well.
Winter comes, I peel that finder off, add my 2 new ones, (Lowrance E-lite and Santa's gift to me- a Ray Marine Dragon fly).
"Hmmmm, lets mount this Hummingbird on my bow E-lectric trolling motor. All I REALLY need is to know where the bottom is when trolling on the E motor".
So I do..................
Flash forward this past summer.
Every now and again I find a drop er 2 of this BLACK sticky goo dripping from the transducer hole at the bottom.
I hook up the boat to the truck, peel the cover off the boat and find goo!
As summer went on, it got more and more, like a spoon full or more each week???
One day I filled the hole with silcone thinking it'd cure the goo piles on my bow carpet.
The goo started to spew out where the wire goes into the "puck" plastic???
Makes me think there is psi building up in there?????
Now, keep in mind during all this the transducer worked like a charm!!!
Fall comes, I drag the boat home, I just removed that finder set up, ("OK, before I shelve this finder lettme see what a new transducer for this goes for", look on E bay for a new transducer, over $100!!!.
A Lowrance 3 color unit is $99, so I have a new one to install on the bow.
What is that black goo?
Reminds me of the old magnetic ballasts in fluorscent lights, the P.C.P. would be in them. When they went bad the black goo would boil and drip out all over!
That the stuff that causes cancer!!
It can't be the same "stuff" now, but..........
Ideas of what and more important HOW it started to ooze?
Joe