Not a really important topic, but I was messing around with a fish finder transducer in my Cat30, and wanted to glue it inside the hull.
I used one tube of clear silicone then another tube I thought was clear but ended up being white because I wasn’t paying attention.
And I wasnt thinking when I squeezed it out and didn’t think about air bubbles, so being a little too late to undo what I just did, I decided to see how well it would or wouldn’t work. Worst case I’d let it dry and start over later. I pressed the transducer into the blob and tried to squish it enough to try to flatten out any bubbles under it, and the immediate results were really noisy.
I waited a day for it to mostly dry and checked again, prepared to rip it out, but it looks pretty decent today. A bit of noise, but looks good enough to use.
Here’s the install, and the before and after pics of the silicone wet and mostly dry:
I used one tube of clear silicone then another tube I thought was clear but ended up being white because I wasn’t paying attention.
And I wasnt thinking when I squeezed it out and didn’t think about air bubbles, so being a little too late to undo what I just did, I decided to see how well it would or wouldn’t work. Worst case I’d let it dry and start over later. I pressed the transducer into the blob and tried to squish it enough to try to flatten out any bubbles under it, and the immediate results were really noisy.
I waited a day for it to mostly dry and checked again, prepared to rip it out, but it looks pretty decent today. A bit of noise, but looks good enough to use.
Here’s the install, and the before and after pics of the silicone wet and mostly dry:
