Broken Transducer Mount

[gunsinger]

Broke the mount on my triple shot transducer today. It’s a clean break and should be glue able. The question is, what’s the best glue for plastic on plastic?  Where it will he immersed in water?

[MN Fisher]

There's a JB Weld for everything

 

[Jig Man]

If you have the tools and skill, you can drill both sides of the break and epoxy a pin in it to give it more strength.

[gunsinger]

Well, I bought some JB Weld MarineWeld and glued the broken mount piece back on.  I clamped it as best I could and left it sit overnight.  I took the clamp off and hand tested it this AM and it seems to be fine.  I'll re-mount it after work and, if I don't get rained out, will put it in the water Saturday.  Wish me luck.

[Alex from GA]

Hope it works OK.  I'm with Jigman about the pin.  If you can drill it with it together I'd still do it and glue a pin in it.

[gunsinger]

At the end of the day, I replaced the transducer. Though it seemed stoutly glued, it didn’t survive being in the water. 

[slonezp]

How'd you break it in the first place? TSS makes spring back mounts. Hit a stump and the spring takes the impact rather than the transducer.

[BayouSlide]

I can wholeheartedly concur with the endorsement of Transducer Shield & Saver's products. Here in the land of cypress stumps and laydowns I often serve as the "worse case scenario" tester of their products. Great products and great people to deal with. I would probably break a mount on every outing if not for their product.  ?

 

After breaking the mount pole of my Mega 360 on a stump, I can wholeheartedly endorse their reinforcement brace as well. ?

[gunsinger]

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

How'd you break it in the first place? TSS makes spring back mounts. Hit a stump and the spring takes the impact rather than the transducer.

I could tell you but then I’d have to hunt you down and sh…..well, never mind, you’ll probably die laughing. 
 

So, first you gotta know that this is my first bass boat so I don’t have a great deal of experience driving one. Second, the lake I fish is electric only. So, when I load the boat, I usually do so with the TM … getting running start and pulling the TM just before getting to the trailer and gliding on in.  
 

One Saturday I decided I needed to practice loading using the big motor, you know, like a real boater.  So, I crank it up and start my approach. I’m doing pretty well coming in … just slightly off center. As I’m gliding in, I hear this horrible noise. I’m like, “What the heck, I have never heard anything like that before.”  I’m thinking maybe I was too far left and ran up on the fender well or something. Anyways, the boat straightened out and I gave it a little throttle and eased her forward but, for some unknown reason, it won’t go up.  I back her up and try again, still no luck. 
 

As I’m sitting there trying to figure out what could be wrong, I look down and it hits me. Now I know what that horrible noise was. As you’ve no doubt guessed by now, because I’m so used to pulling the TM when I glide up, I totally forgot to pull it. 
 

The noise was the transducer and the TM waging war with the trailer and losing. The transducer snapped and the skeg on the TM was bent at a 45 degree angle.  The latter was fix with a big hammer. 
 

Expensive lesson learned.  Suffice it to say I won’t forget that again.