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Fatboywez Junior Member Offline I love fishing! Posts: 98	Making a fishfinder portable Sep 7^th, 2008 at 8:08pm I have just brought a fishfinder but not the portable type. What i wanted to know is how people have made theres portable, If that makes sense cheers
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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #1 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 8:37pm Easy, find a box big enough to take the gubbins and secure it in. Helps if the box is waterproof-ish. There are specialist waterproof boxes but I got away with a tool box and so did Tim K. A few stainless screws, silicon and ty-wraps and you are away.
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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #2 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 8:56pm I could post a few photo's but Mr Kelly would only sneer and call it my Joe 90 box if I had just stuck them up.
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Tim Kelly God Member Offline Dag nabbit Muskie Posts: 3905	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #3 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 9:07pm I might not... Maybe..
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Tim Kelly God Member Offline Dag nabbit Muskie Posts: 3905	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #4 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 9:12pm I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.
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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #5 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 9:18pm A slightly different set up now to hold the transducer arm to the box for carrying but you get the idea.
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Tim Kelly God Member Offline Dag nabbit Muskie Posts: 3905	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #6 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 9:35pm Ha ha! Joe 90's going fishing again. Bet your transducer isn't like this..
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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #7 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 9:44pm Never understood the Joe 9O thing, must be something from your generation Tim. Nope it doesn't look like that.
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Wheres me bloody tractor?

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Re: Making a fishfinder portable
Reply #8 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:05pm

They all seem a bit up market for my bit of the Fen Shocked

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Mine is basicly a Tescos snap lid lunch box with the finder bolted to the lid [sealed with silicone] the battery fits in the box and the resultant void is filled with expanding foam and then cut to shape. The whole system is small, light [in so far as the battery allows] and watertight.

That do seem a bit simpler, and anythn that's a bit easier to cart up and down them old doike banks is allroight wi me.

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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #9 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:09pm Fishfinder...up and down banks, sure you have the concept right As long as everything it secure and it works that good enough for me.
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Tim Kelly God Member Offline Dag nabbit Muskie Posts: 3905	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #10 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:14pm http://www.bigrat.co.uk/equipment/case.html
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fenfisher God Member Offline Wheres me bloody tractor? Posts: 606 North Cambs fens Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #11 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:15pm Find a drain / river with a reasonable access then:- Boat furst Engines next Then tackle [inc fish finder] then me!!! I tried boat then me,but my ghille / boatman is bloody useless!! More beer landlord!!
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Chico 48 PAC God Member Offline Posts: 2433 Bardney 'ont Witham Gender:	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #12 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:19pm Tim, but who is Joe 90? (You are a rotter Sir.)
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Tim Kelly God Member Offline Dag nabbit Muskie Posts: 3905	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #13 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:19pm That's you that is.
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Fatboywez Junior Member Offline I love fishing! Posts: 98	Re: Making a fishfinder portable Reply #14 - Sep 8^th, 2008 at 7:04pm Thanks for the tips lads and the pics it has really helped i will get making one as the fishfinder arrived today, Do you lads use Gel Cell batterys to run them off if so which are good and will run a garmin 140 for a day?? cheers
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