Understand that Lake Master sold its data to Lowrance. I would think that, what lowranced purchased will always be theirs. But enhancements for products other than H-birds is doubtful.

Has there been any changes to the signal interpretation?

Specifically has the signal processing changed from the LX5?

In the past, Marcums Processing included correlation between the timing of signals received after one pulse with the timing of signals received after the next pulse. If thetiming is not coherent, the controller assumed that the received signal is not an echo return of a pulse generated by the unit, but instead is noise generated by another source.

Has the controller’s ability to process signals using the RAMDAT memory been altered?

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VX1, LX3, LX5, and soon to come ~ LX7.
Any rhyme or reason for the use of odd numbers in production identification? Sort of odd ~ Ha!

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All prime numbers for the primary flasher!! OK # 1 was taken off the prime list about 60 years ago. Maybe thats how long they have been working on them.

Whoever has one of these,……Get ahold of me.

Sorry diane, same time post

The claim is that the XD50 has a carbon reducing additive. XD100 is fully synthetic with all additives known to man in it.
For 1989 motor( when emission’s weren’t strict) the XD30 is not only perfectly fine to use, its also what the engine was designed on(TCW3 oil).

Newer engines with complex injection and exhaust geometries will also do fine with a TCW3 oil, but claims are made that it may hinder performance due to fuel mixture injection rates and carbon build-up.

Technology has brought engines to a point where fuel/oil mixtures want to be combusted quickly and with the least amount of residual fuel parts. So, fast and clean burning mixtures is what all the oil mumbo jumbo is about. Older motors are able to accomodate incomplete combustion and perform with slower burning fuel mixtures.
THink of it as an analogy between diesel engines and gasoline engines without the completely different combustion cycles in mind.

There are quite a few in-line element heaters such as this available:
heater

I have used these in the pump house at our cabin for a few years now. Beats priming the pump every time when staying up there in the winter!

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I have never opened in box Lowrance H2OC.
What is the value of this unit should I sell it?

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I bought 3 of them over 1.5 years ago and sold all three for $260. I’d wait until ice season again to sell it. They are now antiques and are very hard to find new.

WOW

Theres no question: LakeMaster

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How do they make the center core of a Moxi a different color then the outside…by the millions?

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Coinjection molding. The first polymer is injected in at the tail leaving enough volume open for the core. Then through the same gate comes the core polymer. The mold is held at a predetermined temperature such that the outside skin sets before the inner portion. THis allows the core to remain fluid. The no slip condition between the polymer and the mold and the freezing of the melt creates a sandwiched profile. Excess “skin” polymer is released into the head head.

Its like making a diamond. Under the right temp and pressure for the perfect amount of time, you get a Moxi and its repeatable millions of times under the same recipe. You can actually see the injection gate location at mid-radius of the tail.

Don’t think you can do it in your garage. The polymer’s, Temperatures, pressures, feed rates, and times take unbelievable trial and error. And its different for each mold.

This isn’t gospel but its how other products are made the same way.

If your connections are good, I’m 90% its the ducer.

If you’re looking for a pro-job, most of the metal shops aren’t going to have a lexan bender. Lexan break presses have a heating element along the bend apex.

I know people have done it using other heat sources.
If you’re doing a home-made job and you’re not too concerned with looks, you can try it yourself using a torch and a couple pieces of 2×4 clamping the piece and another 2×4 as your die.

There are specialty shops that will have the tool, but finding them will be the hardest part and the $$$

Sounds to me like you’re going to be a buck-twenty come speedo season

We’ll still have our fill of pork chops so don’t go buying any new belts

This is one of those things where you have to suck it up and take it. On the other hand, you have a choice. I hear theres employment in Burnsville

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Congrats Matt! I’ll be sending you a life time supply of starting fluid.

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THanks Brian!

Throw in some sea foam for when she sits idle in the winter.

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You just need to prime your wife a little more, she’ll start on the second pull too.

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I get married this weekend

33 years!!! Wow! So its probably cost you $10/year to drill your holes.

Parts are going to be hard to come. If it were me, I’d put it on Craigslist for $40. then stick the $40 towards your new one. There are plenty of people out there that look for old augers just for the parts alone.

On the bottomside of the gear box, there is a brass oil lite flanged sleeve bearing. This sleeve bearing is designed to wear. When it does wear down, it is VERY easily confused with not having that connecting bolt attached.

If you let the brass get too worn you will eventually wear out the drive shaft pinions shaft that rides inside the sleeve bearing. This is a much spendier fix. In all my strikemaster years, I have replaced one sleeve bearing. The little bit of wobble is non-issue, but If you must have a solid mate, replace that bearing. Its cheap, the pinions shaft is not.

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Funny thing.. I have only ever seen 1 pair on a truck… I thought they were kinda functional… kinda announced, young single guy… big G

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They were functional!! Sneaky G would follow the hanging balls trails in the snow out to the hot spot. They were a winter tracking device. That was 10 yrs ago when they were so rare, then it was a riot!

I was 18 w/ new truck,…. blue bulls balls on the back were
funny as ell. Having them today would indeed be like wearing your stonewashed denim. That may be even harder to explain to your kids!!

G! That better not have been a shot at me.

What you describe is a perpetual motion machine. (these always seem to make great sense in your head) Fact is, you can’t create energy at the same rate you use it. It goes against every energy conservation law.

Sounds like you need a solar panel. Its now amazing what photovoltaic cell tech has come to. Much different and cheaper than 5 years ago.

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anyone know if you can fish it tomorrow even though there is a tournament going on?

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I could have swore there was tourny going on every weekend out there!

There does come a point n the season where you need try and get all the water out of the inside of the poles

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Plus I’d rather have a heavier auger built to last than a lighter one with lots of plastic parts to break and release.

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Sure, but I’m still not going fish with an Uglystick just because I can run it through a trash compactor.

What we once new as “Plastic” certainly doesn’t have the same properties as it did 10 years ago. Some composites today outperfom ferrous metals and aluminums n specific applications.

Take a Strikemaster handle for instance crafted from Dupont’s Zytel. Zytel PPA exhibits a Tensile strength of 32,000 psi. Compare that to 1018 steel tubing around 36,000 psi. The tradeoff in this case is ductitlity and eleastic modulus. Carbon steel comes in at 30 Mpsi and Zytel at 16.5 Mpsi. This means that the Zytel composite is nearly half as ductile. So under load, the steel will deform and the Zytel will just snap. The Zytel shines in its strength pound-for-pound.

Think if this way, just because the telegraph worked doesn’t mean I’m going throw my cell phone away. If that was our species mentality, we’d still be riding horses to the bank.

Call Dupont once and ask if they have any plastic

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Starting on Feb 3rd, you can pre-order if you are an existing VZW customer. February 10th for all you other suckers!

Verizon iPhone 4

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Day late and milions of dollars short.

Android has it all covered. Buy one Apple, and you just sold your technological soul. There are just too many other good options out there, all in the short few years apple screwed up and bit on a contract with AT&T

and they double as iglo’s

John,

If you’re anything like me, you’ll wanna throw that fly reel across the lake by the time you get down to 30 ft.

I love the fly reel concept and use mine for gills and pies in less than 25′. Perch can be fast an furious. Think of the fly reel setup’s as more of fine finesse style or technique when you’re in a critical situation.

Its been rough for me as well. I took an afternoon up there with my Dad on Sunday and stuck 3 fish for 4 hrs.

But man did we mark fish

I blame it on lunar phase, high tide, pressure, water clarity, temperature, and El Nino.

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Tim,

I prefer Bud Select.

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When did you turn all hoyty toyty on me?

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the best can I have found is a Seafoam can to take with on the ice, it’s just the rite amount to fill the auger tank, I just write what mix is in it with a black sharpie marker and toss 2 in the bottom of the sled or bucket. I have never had one leak in the 10 years I have been doing that. unlike the plastic 1 gallon can that split and filled my house with gas the seafoam can is tough as nails even when crushed it never leaked..

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THAT is a brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing