u/xkayaking

Instructions say one thing, claim one thing, the chemistry says one thing, guidelines... then in reality another thing happens.

Oh no silpoxy is so expensive, but that's the "Only way" to glue so they claim, go to the hardware store, 3euro a tube of high quality fish tank silicone and it works the same, smells the same, behaves the same, and I have colors, oh wait you need more colors, surely this hardware store silicone is not compatible with silicone paint, I mean it's chemically incompatible, oh wait, it still works fine.

Superglue won't work on this ultra soft platinum silicone, wait... it glued... well, too well... now it's stuck, this wasn't the plan.

Oh you want to add mineral spirits to hardware store caulk to thin it out?... xylene... and this mystery chemical, go on; then treat the platinum silicone with that, these are incompatible, and that's plat silicone solvent, nevermind it still glued like mad to the silicone.

Oh you want to pour platinum silicone on top of that, to paint it, using silicone like paint, that mess of xylene, mineral spirits and caulk... No it will poison it!... wait, it actually created an EVEN STRONGER bond, while the same solution peeled off the "good" area.

Oh you can't glue plastic/resin to silicone, please... let me put all these chemicals combined, superglue, and a mosquito net and baking soda too for good measure because I watched it on an idian video, it glued.

Glass and plat silicone, metal, glued, no problem. Add hair and fur, behold, the method...

There's no info, no guides, and seemingly no logic to follow.

Which I find odd, like... plat silicone has been around for ages.

Where is all that information?... why does it feel like reinventing the wheel...? Just why is it test after test and no information online or anywhere?... not even AI knows what to do. This is getting very expensive, I have so many sheets of platinum silicone I have ruined, my floor is covered in silicon and solvents and my work area has been like that for the last 2 years just test after test, and got raging headache from so many chemicals and microplastics; Where is the info?...

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Can I fix it? /s

No but really, where can I even find another lid?...

I am at a pickle, I already have the mini 2; and certainly getting the etrex 32 would be the most cost effective method; the issue I have is that the mini 2 nor the etrex SE I currently own give me topographic information, normally I would have relied in phones for this, but this has effectively killed all my phones because phones are absurdly weak no matter what I have done, protection, rugged phones, insane cases, etc... they die either from overheat, vibration, or existing in moist air; don't worry I have tried everything possible, they all invariably break. I have a pile of dead phones and zero broken garmins.

Yes, I do need the inreach functionality, it has served me in one emergency already, where you guessed, my phone died just then and there after I pulled up to place with signal to contact!... I am eyeing the 67i and while it seems to be great in paper, the concerns I have for the 67i are:

USB-c is a weak point, most of my phones, rugged or not, with a rubber cap or not, that have died have been killed by USB-C, either after accidental water ingress and water may be acid for USB-C or something, or due to it getting loose from vibrations; just the vibration while charging on a boat made the port stop functioning in one phone, another just stopped charging as well from just existing inside a bag in a rack on a bicycle fork near the vibrating wheel, the usb-c just came off the board; 3 phones met their demise on that same trip because of "extreme weather", rain followed by heatwave in the artic, I had a backup phone that also died, followed by the backup backup phone also dying, the Etrex SE and the inreach just kept working while being outside all day, and I coordinated another phone with inreach... the 4th phone is currently dying after being outside in Finland.

67i claims a long battery life, but so does inreach mini 2; and in my testing, the mini 2 battery life is not that long while tracking outside of mobile coverage; the Etrex SE on the other hand is a beast.

On the plus.

67i seems to say it supports satellite imagery, this is big for me; I can find clearings that way and hidden water.

My concerns with the Etrex 32 + Mini combo:

The 32 may not be as accurate, does not have the sat imagery which might force me to take out a phone, and the battery life is what, 25h? really, what is that?... Two days?... Am I supposed to carry piles of AA batteries then?...

Honestly the best for me would be something like the Etrex SE but with topo information, I don't need colors, last time I hacked it by tracing the outline of islands in the GPX itself and memorizing the rest of the map before heading out, but that's only viable for short distances.

I move a lot, and I carry my phone, I have tried everything, all sort of rugged phones, I often carry two phones, sometimes 4, but at the end of the day the lifespan of a phone is basically a year; even if I don't drop it, even if I keep it as safe as possible.

Sometimes I am touring, middle of wilderness, a top of a mountain; sure I have a sat phone, but android maps are nice to have, but how does the phone that I keep in a bag, inside 4 layers of protection basically dies is beyond me. Most common point of failure is that it suddenly stops charging, sometimes adhesives fail and it starts falling apart, but at least it still works while falling appart.

Last was this honor 400 lite which after a week of kayaking, just decided to give up charging while being in an airtight sealed box, I think the waves caused it to malfunction.

Rugged phones also fall to charging issues. Yet the unihertz atom managed to survive the most, at 3 years before falling to a charging issue. Average, undone by absolute garbage phones like some samsung phones which died on my hand after 4 days because it was hot outside, rest assured I got it warranty replaced. I have had screen cracks just because it was -26C, that very common in winter, that's just my yard... (and they say screens don't crack without dropping but I had it in my hand when it kapot itself).

My line of thinking was with these fairphones is that, well if they are that easy to repair, have the phone, have the tools, have parts (aka new usb ports, battery, screen), water damage not a concern as they always are in an airtight sealed box, and fix the damn thing, a lot of my equipment is not reliable because it is indestructible but because I can fix it on the go, tents, bicycles, boats, etc...; fixing equipment on the go is something I have to do all the time.

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I am a noob and this is my first kayak, a Ladoga 1; I managed to get in the kayak by grabbing it from the tail and jumping over it, like a horse, but I realized that if one of those ropes, the black one too, was getting tangled over my foot, and also the rudder ones, had to be super careful, if I flipped there I'd get tangled and drown.

No other method worked to get on it, I even had a giant paddle float, almost break the paddle instead, only jumping from the back works, right on top of that ropey mess.

Shit just doesn't seem safe, like once I got the hang of it I just felt it was unsafe even in shallow water, those ropes were begging to tangle my foot, one fall and I would be done.

The only thing I can think is that I need to diassemble the whole thing, while in water, somehow, before jumping in.