Mounting Humminbird transducer in Stealth 14?

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by dsafety

I have experimented with most of the mounting techniques. My current favorite is the grease mount. It is very easy to do and to undo. I can see no difference in performance between the grease mount and the wet mount.

I'm not personally into fowl, and I hear hummingbirds are difficult to mount do to their size and agility. That said I have a good friend who knows much about such things since he grew up on a farm and I asked him. He essentually gave me the same advice as Dsafty, that if you can't go with a wet mount a grease mount is the best alternative.

Have any of you guys considered chickens?

[mtnbykr2]

Originally Posted by Jim Day

I'm not personally into fowl, and I hear hummingbirds are difficult to mount do to their size and agility. That said I have a good friend who knows much about such things since he grew up on a farm and I asked him. He essentually gave me the same advice as Dsafty, that if you can't go with a wet mount a grease mount is the best alternative.

Have any of you guys considered chickens?

chickens have large talons...easy to mount...lol

[ful-rac]

Here are a couple of pictures of my thru hull transducer on my stealth 14 if your interested. Not bad after over a year of use, no maintenance works perfect everytime!

[BrokeLoser]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

Here are a couple of pictures of my thru hull transducer on my stealth 14 if your interested. Not bad after over a year of use, no maintenance works perfect everytime!

That's definitely sweet...looks super clean. What transducer is that?
Now I just need to grow the nuts to bore a hole in the bottom of my hull..heck I already have one for the tank pump.

[ful-rac]

Originally Posted by BrokeLoser

That's definitely sweet...looks super clean. What transducer is that?
Now I just need to grow the nuts to bore a hole in the bottom of my hull..heck I already have one for the tank pump.

I believe it is a airmar p319....as far at the hole in the bottom of the yak...no big deal, like you said you already have one for the bait tank pump.

[BrokeLoser]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

I believe it is a airmar p319....as far at the hole in the bottom of the yak...no big deal, like you said you already have one for the bait tank pump.

That airmar trans looks pretty stout.
I wonder they make a similar one for my unit? (HB 597 ci hd di)

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by BrokeLoser

That airmar trans looks pretty stout.
I wonder they make a similar one for my unit? (HB 597 ci hd di)

Most transducers are made by Airmar then repackaged with brand names on them, and you probably could get one directly from Airmar for it, just call them and they will tell you what will work with your unit.....

That said the Humminbird XFM 9 20 should work for your 597ci...


http://store.humminbird.com/products...725c8567368874

93 bucks at the HB store and they say it works.... don't take my word for it check around before you buy.

Actually the cheapest places to buy transducers are usually computer discount supply chains online. I found one for 58 bucks but they had the wrong picture, and might not know what they are selling.

Better is 62.99 bucks here at nerds: http://www.thenerds.net/HUMMINBIRD.H...1.html?affid=8

or..

63.99 at Poorfish outdoors
http://www.poorfish.com/p-9784-hummi...-xfm-9-20.aspx if you want to go with a company that sells specifically fishing stuff.

Or you can do it commando style and make your own thru hull:





Works for me..literally...

I actually miss the days when we had to do these things ourselves

Thru hulls are the only way to go...Any way you look at it your going to get much, much, much better performance with your transducer in the water like it's designed to work rather then beaming through the hull with grease or glue. It kind of blows my mind that people are now putting high performance fishfinders in their yaks and still killing their performance by gluing in thier transducers. To each thier own though.

Good luck!!!

Jim