Edgetech 2000-CSS, User Manual

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5.3.1 Disassembling the Towfish
To disassemble the towfish:
1. Place the towfish on a clean, dry, flat surface.
2. For the 2000-CSS Towfish, use the 7/16-
inch wrench and remove the four bolts
securing the teardrop cover to the towfish
and remove the cover.
3. Using the 9/16-inch wrench, remove the
four sets of nuts, flat washers and lock
washers securing the two bottle clamps
and remove the clamps. These items are
shown in
F
IGURE
5-1 .
4. Disconnect all the cables from the
connector end cap of the electronics
bottle and remove the bottle from the
towfish. The connector end cap is shown in
F
IGURE
5-2 .
5. Using the ¼-inch allen key, remove the
three socket head cap screws from the
connector end cap.
6. Insert the socket head cap screws into the
three end cap removal holes on the
connector end cap.
7. Using the ¼-inch allen key, evenly screw
each of the socket head cap screws into the
end cap to extract it.
8.
When the end cap is free of the housing,
carefully slide the electronics chassis
completely out of the housing and lay it on
a clean flat surface.
Figure 5-1:
2000-CSS Towfish with
Teardrop Cover Removed
Bottle clamp
Transducer
Electronics
bottle
Socket head cap screw (3)
End cap
removal
hole (3)
Figure 5-2: Electronics Bottle Connector End Cap