I have just about had it with expensive gadgets that break very
easily. My Garmin handheld GPS had one of the little buttons fall out
and the time wasted on shipping and waiting for a repair isnt
worthwhile (Repaired with a squirt of 3m5200 into the hole forming a
"button"). TWO Icom handheld VHF units both broke in the same way,
the volume control knob broke off, not worth shipping again. My
expensive Fujinon binoc had the eyeshield screws come out so the
shields fell off, fortunately repaired (sort of) with screws from an
eyeglass repair kit. My Navman fishfinder with built in knotlog had
the impeller fall off and on and on and ......
With this kind of luck, I have vowed to never go to any sort of
computerized nav stuff cuz it will never work for me.
What is really a pain is that I could repair most of this stuff If I
could locate parts. I spend more time on maintenance of this crap
than I ever did before I could afford gadgets. Maybe time to simplify
and go back to nothing expensive on my boat.