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Mark P
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Posted: November-24-2006 at 12:50pm |
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to dampen the vibration of the mirror mounted on a '05 216 Sport Nautique's tower (standard factory supplied arm)? At certain speeds, the vibration makes the view blur.
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dans
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Your prop should be checked.
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Mark P
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The prop is not dinged but could be the issue, as well as anything out of balance. The frequency happens to be at wake boarding speed only @19.5 MPH. It could also be just one of the natural frequency speedi issues of the drive train that occur. Manufacturing equipment that I have worked on are sometimes prevented from running at speeds where vibrations occur - that's why variable frequency drives have "skip freqencies". If dampening out this vibration cannot be done, I will taking it in to have it looked at.
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Mark P
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Also, I may have to consider a windshield mounted mirror like my previous Nautique had (that was a black CIPA). Does anyone make one that has a silver or brushed aluminum look that mounts on / above the windshield? I have searched the web and have not found one yet.
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eric lavine
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matchbook....seriously you could of scraped some sand and would never know it I would go after the prop first, the boat should be smooth at all rpm ranges, remember the prop spins engine speed unless its a 1.23 and that is very fast.
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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05 210
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Never had a problem with mine getting blurry.Different boat,but the tower is basically the same.I would take the above advise and get 'er checked.Moving the mirror is just a band-aid.
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