Afternoon All
Tested the new pump and it does prime and do as intended i.e. supply water to the exhausts when boat is stationary, pleased and a little relieved with that. It does however resonate (as you said it might Martin... ) so have isolated it and its 3mm bolt from the hull, great improvement:
Some more work in progress, been busy modifying the nav light cluster that sits on the fore deck and the windscreen mounted searchlight to accept LEDs. Amati haven't made it easy as they're very solid cast lumps... And so heavy...
So, the nav light cluster gets some attention from a drill to make a chamber for a white LED to eventually backlight the red / green elements:
And a saw / file / dremel takes out the cast 'lens', I have a set of cheap nav lights due so I can take out the coloured lens quadrants and trim to fit the Amati casting:
Masthead light then gets drilled to take a 1.8mm warm white LED insulated +ve wire, the -ve is the whole casting. Just wired for testing at the moment, the final +ve to the mast light will be a thin white wire that will act as the 'Riva' pennant cord running up the back of the 'mast':
I'm thinking to just use some clear resin to fill the masthead light with the LED buried in place, then file it to the final shape.
Spotlight drilled out:
And tested, the +ve exits the casting close to the attachment point on the 'underside' of the spotlight:
The new 'lens' for the spotlight is actually the clear plastic dome part from the kit that's intended to be the top of the compass... I'm using a real compass, the it's a spare part and ideal size.
Best regards to all.
David.