I've tried repairing the 'track' on my WP32 twice now and it keeps re-breaking.
The unit dates to about 2006. On its first season the innards literally disintegrated. After a long letter and a number of phone calls to Simrad they sent out a package of replacement parts, some of which being changed up from plastic to stainless. The unit worked great up until early last year, when the grey plastic track that runs around the outside edge of the ring split apart in 2 places.
I cleaned it all up and epoxied the track back together, but after a couple of trips it came apart again. I re-cleaned, re-roughed the surface, etc but it split again in the fall. This past winter I re-glued it with G/Flex epoxy, so hopefully this can take the strain....but I'm doubtful.
I don't really know 'why' there is strain on the track....you'd think that it should be pretty low-stress...but I guess not.
Naturally Simrad doesn't support any of it's wheel pilots anymore. It's VERY disappointing. There are low hours on the device, despite it being a few years old now....and it has primarily been used on calm motoring days. I simply loath the disposable mentality companies have these days. Especially on items worth a couple grand!
I'd be curious if anyone has ideas about how to re-glue that track....To help visualise, it sits along the inside edge of the photo showing a metal ring. The other pic is the opposing side of the sandwich.
Thanks!
The unit dates to about 2006. On its first season the innards literally disintegrated. After a long letter and a number of phone calls to Simrad they sent out a package of replacement parts, some of which being changed up from plastic to stainless. The unit worked great up until early last year, when the grey plastic track that runs around the outside edge of the ring split apart in 2 places.
I cleaned it all up and epoxied the track back together, but after a couple of trips it came apart again. I re-cleaned, re-roughed the surface, etc but it split again in the fall. This past winter I re-glued it with G/Flex epoxy, so hopefully this can take the strain....but I'm doubtful.
I don't really know 'why' there is strain on the track....you'd think that it should be pretty low-stress...but I guess not.
Naturally Simrad doesn't support any of it's wheel pilots anymore. It's VERY disappointing. There are low hours on the device, despite it being a few years old now....and it has primarily been used on calm motoring days. I simply loath the disposable mentality companies have these days. Especially on items worth a couple grand!
I'd be curious if anyone has ideas about how to re-glue that track....To help visualise, it sits along the inside edge of the photo showing a metal ring. The other pic is the opposing side of the sandwich.
Thanks!
