[C320-list] RADAR cable going up the mast

[Jeff Hare]

Yea, that's not going to work at all.  It helps to understand the setup of the compression post, the mast step and the mast. The top of the compression post is welded to a thick annodized aluminum plate that the mast step sits on.  That plate has a 1.5" hole in it to allow cables into the compression post.  To keep water out a 4" tall tube is welded over that hole and this is where the wires feed into. If properly commissioned, this hole is plugged with some putty or something. 

Its highly unlikely this job could be done without a crane to lift the mast unless messenger strings were already in place. 

-Jeff 

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A recently purchased Furuno Radar (model 1623) installation was going well  
until it was time to get the radar cable moving up from the base of the  
compression tube to the mast.  
 
Can anyone who has already performed this feat of magic assist me with some 
 advise?  We have drilled a hole in the mast above the bottom spreaders,  
where the radar pod is mounted and we have dropped a weighted line down the  
hole in the hopes we could find it with a hook made out of a coat hanger at 
the  base of the compression tube.  Our plan has not been successful.  
 
John G. 
#329/1996