Anybody want to know what the inside of a 797 looks like?

[Wannabe...]

I can tell you all about it. I figured, what the heck could those technician know that I couldn't figure out all by my lonesome. I mean, what's the worst that could happen right?

As it stood, the Hbird wouldn't recognize the tranducer or the GPS puck, but would power up and go direct into the demo mode.

First up was to remove the base screws where the unit connects to the craddle/mount. The trouble was that the unit is cracked in that area and when I took the wave, those screws slipped and allowed it to jump out of the mount leaving the wires connected to the mount. When it fell, it yanked the snot out of those wires and I assumed had pulled one or more out. (Yanking the snot out of those wires is a technical term I leaned from Cane Pole, you should not use that term until you've been certified). As it turned out, it did not break a connection, but merely pulled the buss loose for the GPS and the tranducer where they connect to the mother board.

The catch was, that there was no way to get at the board from the opening I had to work with. The only option was to remove the case screws. Well, knowing I'm running the risk of reducing it's water proofing, I figured - well, due to the cracking, it's already subject to get wet and I was not going to reduce it's water proofing much by trying it. 8 torx screws later, I broke the seal - which is only a rubber gasket. I'm guessing H'bird doesn't fill their units with nitrogen...the whole thing depends on rubber seals actually. Bingo, bango, reattach the busses and presto - the unit works fine.

They should make one of those real men of genius commercials about me.

Wannabe...

Only catch now is that the case is still cracked and sooner or later it's going to happen again, but meanwhile, I can save up my $ to get a "real" factory repair. (which actually means, buy me some time so Is will give me some money, hopefully....but you probably already knew that).



Welp, I broke ou

[DonDon]

Epoxy glue works wonders on something like that. If yacan't get it to seal that way. SOme super glue and Duct tape will fix her right up!!!!! Glad ya got it back to working though seriously bud!!

[tritonman]

Glad you can see the bottom again, now learn too see the little fishes

[yikess]

It took guts to bust open a $1,000 and giver a try at fixin it.

[feelay]

Glad to hear ya got er up and runnin' again. With all the water you guys have, you need all the help you can get to find em.

[creekslick]

You should have taken pictures.

[tritonman]

It took guts to bust open a $1,000 and giver a try at fixin it.

I got to admit that did take guts to try that one. I personally would not have had the notion to even attempt it.

[Wannabe...]

Guts? Stewpidity more like it. LOL.

Nah, it was a win/win situation. Flat repair is something like $200. It's way out of warranty so worst case was I couldn't fix it and would have had to send it in.

You know Creek....the whole time I was working on it, I thought, man I need to take some pics for C.C.....shoot, had I known I was actually gonna make the thing work, I would have, but I didn't have much hope when I started and I certainly didn't want to give you guys more amunition. Bwhahahaha.

Wannabe...

[dafshklr]

I got to admit that did take guts to try that one. I personally would not have had the notion to even attempt it.

I will give it to him, the boy has guts. I wouldn't or probably couldn't have done it

[biggerjigger]

We need to either Devcon Plastic Weld that crack or try the heat gun/screwdriver weld trick on it and it should be good as new.