Removal of Sherwood Dept Gauge on 3 Gauge Console

I have a sherwood 3 gauge console and just purchased a sherwood profile computer puck. I know this can be installed by removing the depth gauge. How is the depth gauge removed from the console?

Thanks.

I had a similar problem getting my computer into my console. It was very hard to bend the rubber console to make it fit.

I found that by heating the console rubber in hot water it made it easier to bend and get the console in. (notice I said hot and not boiling as I didn't want to damage the other gauges.)

-mike

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I have a sherwood 3 gauge console and just purchased a sherwood profile computer puck. I know this can be installed by removing the depth gauge. How is the depth gauge removed from the console?

Thanks.

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Hi. Welcome!!

Is your console one of these (attached)?

I've got an Oceanic hockey-puck computer (should be identical in dimensions to your Profile -- both made by Pelagic), that I put into one of these Sherwood 3-gauge consoles. I seem to remember the depth gauge just popped out of the console with a little bit of gentle twisting and working... be careful with too much violent prying with the plastic gauge housing.

I think, though, the tougher problem you're going to come up against is fitting the hockey-puck computer into the console. When you buy a console with a computer already in it, it seems like there's a spacer in there too. The computer is significantly smaller than the opening, and just sort of rattles around without the spacer.

What I did was take a razor knife to an old compass boot and "carve" a new spacer... had to fill in space under the computer, and around the circumference.

I'd be real curious to hear what your experience will be...

Cheers!

--Marek