Icom waterproof cover?

BogMonster · 01 December 2006, 20:08

Until last weekend, my Icom VHF had a push fitting translucent plastic cover over it which was presumably intended to keep spray off the front of the radio, which it did quite well. Last weekend in an incident which I will not describe (!) I lost it over the side and because I was on the aux which gives the stopping distance of a small tanker, by the time I had turned round to look for it, it had sunk....

Was this an "idea" by a previous owner who found something to fit, or can you buy them? I looked on the icom website but there was no cover listed, there is a "dust cover" accessory but no picture so not sure if it is the same thing - the one I had was made out of plastic a bit thicker than a 2 litre ice cream tub and you could see the radio display through it, though not very well.

thanks

Stephen

Andre · 01 December 2006, 20:31

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Originally Posted by BogMonster

Until last weekend, my Icom VHF had a push fitting translucent plastic cover over it which was presumably intended to keep spray off the front of the radio, which it did quite well. Last weekend in an incident which I will not describe (!) I lost it over the side and because I was on the aux which gives the stopping distance of a small tanker, by the time I had turned round to look for it, it had sunk....

Was this an "idea" by a previous owner who found something to fit, or can you buy them? I looked on the icom website but there was no cover listed, there is a "dust cover" accessory but no picture so not sure if it is the same thing - the one I had was made out of plastic a bit thicker than a 2 litre ice cream tub and you could see the radio display through it, though not very well.

thanks

Stephen

Stephen, perhaps www.dsdevelopments.co.uk can help you

Jon Brooks · 02 December 2006, 07:34

Stephen,

Which model radio is it?
They only ever made a cover for one model.

But as Andre has posted D S make or could make something to fit.

All the best

BogMonster · 02 December 2006, 20:55

It's an Icom IC-M402

You can see the cover on the radio in the attached photo - the white blob in front of the wheel

Do you actually need to cover these up or is it 100% waterproof without?

Jon Brooks · 04 December 2006, 15:17

Hi Stephen,

The cover is a MB-92.
I can't remember if this fits the M401 or the M421.
If you call Icom they should be able to advise.

Do be honest the cover will not aid the waterproofing.
The unit is waterproof with or without the cover.

Hope that helps

BogMonster · 04 December 2006, 15:54

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Originally Posted by Jon Brooks

Hi Stephen,

The cover is a MB-92.
I can't remember if this fits the M401 or the M421.
If you call Icom they should be able to advise.

Do be honest the cover will not aid the waterproofing.
The unit is waterproof with or without the cover.

Hope that helps

Thanks - if it doesn't need a cover then I won't bother for the moment, just wasn't sure...

The radio doesn't have an aerial at the moment either, which is probably a bigger issue in its usefulness

Limey Linda · 04 December 2006, 17:16

948 posts in 9 months. Guess you have beat Codders. Landie sales must be really slow.

BogMonster · 04 December 2006, 22:02

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Originally Posted by Limey Linda

948 posts in 9 months. Guess you have beat Codders. Landie sales must be really slow.

Not really. If you had been paying attention

you would have known that my effin boat keeps exploding so most of them are asking the wonderful knowledgable people on here how to fix it

pathalla · 05 December 2006, 02:31

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Originally Posted by BogMonster

Not really. If you had been paying attention

you would have known that my effin boat keeps exploding so most of them are asking the wonderful knowledgable people on here how to fix it

How is your tube rebuilding project progressing? Have you received the necessary pieces for your repair yet?

BogMonster · 05 December 2006, 09:53

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Originally Posted by pathalla

How is your tube rebuilding project progressing? Have you received the necessary pieces for your repair yet?

DHL should be collecting 2 new tube ends (cone glued to about six inches of tube to sleeve inside the main part of the tube) from Mr Tilley hopefully in the next day or two so hopefully I will have the bits inside 2 weeks

Guess what I am swearing at over Christmas

Just as well though as the repair patch failed big style on the weekend and has taken all the orange top layer off the tube - so yet again it is nothing to do with my gluing as the glue held fast, really wondering if it is a dud batch of fabric or something. I can't even bodge it with superglue at the moment as there is still water weeping out from under the partly peeled off patch 2 days later - though I have no idea where it is coming from!

mdt · 05 December 2006, 13:36

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Originally Posted by BogMonster

Guess what I am swearing at over Christmas

Me thinks you might contract Teurets syndrome

BogMonster · 02 December 2010, 00:16

Dragging this up again....

Does anybody know if an Icom MB-92 cover will fit onto an IC-M411? It is sold for something called the Icom 304 which I have never heard of till a moment ago, but the two radios look as if they are probably based on the same sized case in the photos, and I'd like to get something to keep the sun/weather off the radio while the boat is sitting outside - I know it isn't waterproof.

Avocet · 02 December 2010, 09:43

Regretably, it won't fit. The MB-92 is designed for the M302 and M304 sets which measure 153x67x133 whereas your M411 measures 164x78x139.5.

David

Pikey Dave · 02 December 2010, 12:29

If you just want to keep the weather off, I bought a "patio stacking chair" cover from B&Q for about 5 quid. It's shaped to fit over a stack of the cheap white plastic chairs commonly found outside in the British summer (21-21 july each year

) The shape just happens to be roughly the same as a console, it keeps the sun & rain off (&currently snow) & is cheap to boot.

BogMonster · 02 December 2010, 21:25

Thanks - blast, thought I was on to something then

the old IC402 had a similar cover until I lost it but no idea what it was - maybe something else made to fit.

I've got a soft console cover that I had made with the boat I'm just not sure if it will stand Falklands wind as it's only held on with poppers around the bottom. As everything is supposed to be waterproof I just wanted something to pop over the VHF and maybe something else for the I-commands just to stop the display getting crazed, the GPS already comes with a natty clip on cover.

Pikey Dave · 02 December 2010, 22:10

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I'm just not sure if it will stand Falklands wind as it's only held on with poppers around the bottom.

Never underestimate the power of bungy