I may be upgrading my current sounder. I mounted my current transducer on a starboard block on the transom so that’s easy to remove. Here’s the hard part, the cable runs through the transom through a 1” hole above the water line. The hole is filled with boat life calk silicone and covered with a clam shell. Anyone have a good idea on how to get wire out of silicone so plug can be fed back through and the set up integrity preserved?
Pull it out. Scrape excess off. Run new transducer, then re-calk.
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Trying to figure out how to get the caulk removed without cutting the wire. 1-inch diameter hole about 2-inches long filled with caulk and cable running through it not necessarily sitting perfectly center from end to end.
Try a butter knife
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Dremel tool with small bit to slowly “eat” away the caulk?
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Could try a 3/4” or 1” diameter copper pipe 6” long or so, slip it over the transducer line and work it through the hole from the inside. Small wall thickness on the pipe should cut through the caulk. Haven’t done it, but that’s something I’d try. When I replaced mine I was able to pull the transducer line through the caulking, it wasn’t 2” thick like yours.
Might try a hand held scroll saw blade. Clip one end off and push it through the calk near the edge of the hole and work it around. A hacksaw blade might work too. If you could drill a 1/8" hole through the calk without getting close to the transducer wire, you could push a small diameter piece of wire in and work it around as well.
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Thanks for the ideas guys. Thinking I may be able to eat away just a very small area with either a Dremel or drill bit. If I can then feed through either a guitar string or a small scroll Saul Blade I could go around the very outside edges and hopefully pull the entire plug of silicone out. From there I can work my way towards the cable with a razor blade moving very slowly.
- Detach the transducer from you transom.
- Connect the now dangling transducer cable to a 1/4-3/8 Inch, 20 Foot rope with a FG knot.
- Attach the other end of the rope to the hitch ball of your truck.
- Put the truck in gear and ease away until you hear a pop. The pop will be either the 5200 coming free from the hole in the hull, or your transducer cable breaking.
- If you hear a bang and grinding sound, you pulled the boat off the trailer by the transducer cable.
Thank goodness it doesn’t have 5200 on it. If It did I would not even attempt saving the old transducer.
large flat head screwdriver.
force the caulk out.
we do it here on a regular basis.
however, I like P-Ks idea better.
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anti-bond west marine has it used it to take a thru hull out of a sonny briggs soat spray it and let it soak and spray again it twisted out could not believe boat has a glass over wood hull didnt want to poke at it to much