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Location: Kawartha Lakes, Ontario | I am always paranoid about the transducer getting damaged by flying stones, sand, and gravel while trailering my boat. Does a transducer need protection? What do you do to protect your transducer? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If the transducer is mounted in the proper location on the boat, it is pretty safe from any road junk. It should be safe from damage on the water too, as the boat protects it pretty well. |
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| Use an old sock with wire ties or rubberbands.
Eliminates road scum etc.. from building up. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Why not just flip it up? |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Not all transducers flip up. I run a vexilar for my main unit as I travel down the lake (I like the instantaneous feedback), but it has a solid mount transducer.
Most transducers do flip up, and that is what I have done in the past with those units that I could.
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| Fish tI (had to spell it that way, the correct way of spelling results in xxxxs) has stumbled upon a marketable item rivaling Ron Popiel, "Transducer Sox"! This item could be made of a sturdy padded foam rubber compound w/ a velcro retaining strap; personally I think it would sell, since it would not only protect from roadway debris, but also liquid and gummy build up as previously mentioned. What thinks the common populace? |
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Location: Kawartha Lakes, Ontario | I like the old sock and elastic idea. I will give it a try. Thanks for the input.
Keep your hooks sharp. |
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Location: Iowa | Sponge, if someone makes it and markets it, Muskie fisherpeople will probably buy it. Just part of the sickness I guess. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Sponge: Your mother must have been a saint! I can just imagine you growing up. I bet she had grey hair by 30. Where do get all this stuff? I have to tell you, half the reason I view the messge board is to see what you will come up with next. You have a mind like Robin Williams...funny..but scary. Keep up the humor...people love it. |
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| Thanks Rip, by 30 me mum had NO hair!;) Actually the idea would work; a slip on foam sock for a transducer is practical, and credit goes to Canuck! I enjoy the boards, because growing up I was bound and gagged by school officials who had little or no tolerance for stupidity, and here I am among like minds! This place is like a Pisces University, where expanding minds can gel, ferment, and spew, and where one can become intoxicated w/ all things right. This board really is a spot for all to vent, share, and talk about their day, whether good or bad; and peeps actually care and listen here. Slamr helped me immensely in learning about computers, and I still owe him tuition fees!;)
***Forgot...had I paid attention to the infomercial, I might have figured out why the egg/tato combo was in the pot together...I need to get out more!
Edited by Sponge 3/11/2003 7:33 PM
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Well you certainly exercise your academic freedom here at Pisces University. It IS fun, isn't it. |
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| Yes it is! and I must add a misdirected credit; Fish tI had the sock idea for the transducer sock idea, Canuck had the question leading to the idea; and I may just experiment w/ some foam/velcro...
***ARE: transducers basically the same size...I may take an old neoprene glove and see what I can come up w/...
Edited by Sponge 3/12/2003 6:37 AM
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