[C320-list] Autohelm Rudder Reference Transducer

[Jeff Church]

Thanks again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Grennan" <timgrennan at yahoo.com>
To: "C320-List" <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Autohelm Rudder Reference Transducer


> You might be able to lay it out from the other side(in the aft cabin). I 
> didn't have the nerve.The guard only needs to be lifted 11/2 " to get it 
> out of the foot, and then drilling is easy. That part only took a few 
> minutes. Figuring this out took all the time.
>
>  good luck
>
>  tg
>
> Jeff Church <jjemail at comcast.net> wrote:
>  Thanks Tim.
>
> Can the job be done without removing the guard? I was hoping that I might 
> be
> able to leave the guard in place and fish the wires up from below.
>
> JeffC
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Timothy Grennan"
> To: "C320-List"
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Autohelm Rudder Reference Transducer
>
>
>>I drilled through the deck and ran the wires through the other post. The
>>wire in the port side filled the pipe so running added wire was not
>>possible.Drilling throught the deck w/the guard off was a piece of 
>>cake.The
>>only hard part was to drill the tubing for the additional wire on the
>>starboard side. Make sure to fill the deck hole up w/silicone after the
>>wires are run.
>>
>> Jeff Church wrote: I was just down at the yard (50
>> degrees in Chicago!) trying to figure out
>> how to run the new wire for the rudder reference transducer up thru the
>> binnacle post. If anyone has run additional wire up to the instrument 
>> pod,
>> I'd appreciate some advice. Will another wire fit in the port-side post?
>> Am
>> I better off drilling thru the liner and deck into the starboard post? I
>> think there were previous comments that either option could be
>> problematic.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> JeffC
>
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