Measure once cut twice

[Miles Offshore]

Ooooops. Learned that the hard way after drilling 4 new holes in my transom for my new hydraulic steering. Plenty of travel to starboard, but none to port. Lets see, how many times do I have to look at it before Im convinced that something is "not quite right". Lets see drill again. Ohhhh ,I am dyslexic, its supposed to be maesure twice and cut once. darn, lesson learned. Not so bad though because I have to fill and repair 6 holes from the former steering anyways, now I just have an additional 4. Now if I can just get that coarse thread fitting that screws into the bottom of the helm to quit leaking, I might be on to something!!!! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

By the way though, my console looks awesome, everything but te bottom have of the plug to the motor has now been rewired, put power to it all last night and walla, everything works.
One thing though, I have constantly had problems with my bottom machine interfering with the icom vhf radio.(did not have a problem with my old standard). Anyways I was told to wire fishfinder directly to thebattery, which I did, and guess what ??? Still have noise, I guess my next move will be a filter of some type. Cheers-craig

[ March 07, 2003, 02:00 PM: Message edited by: Miles Offshore ]