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Good afternoon youtube and welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to take the console off
the Royal Enfield Himalayan here and I'm going to work out a way to try and get rid of or stop that
condensation, stay tuned. I'm going to take the windscreen off here yeah now this is an
aftermarket screen from Skidmarxs. I also have this gps mount fitted here so I'm just going to go
ahead and pop that off, three 10 millimetre bolts are behind here. You see this? All I'm going to do
is just take these three bolts off. Little rubber grommets there? You can just leave those in place
because they're all the way through yeah. Then what we want to do is just disconnect this here.
Right then so let's get this inside and see if we can get it dried off hopefully at least semi
permanently now I've had it in for about an hour maybe just about an hour and a half so
that condensation is already dried out inside there. When I take this apart I'm going to give
it a bit of a clean up I'm going to leave it on the radiators you know maybe for an hour or so,
nice warm radiators just if there's any residual moisture just to dry off the inside.
On this side you'll see that there's several little screws around here
Just better be careful when we take this apart. It doesn't take a lot of moisture in here to
get that condensation in there you know as soon as that temperature shifts you're going to get
some condensation, but this seems to be completely sealed. It's entirely possible that there might be
you know a little bit of glue missing somewhere or something like that but I really don't think so
and these silver bezels here on the outside you see they're clipped on there for show
more than anything. To look for any areas where any potential moisture might get in suppose it's
possible that you might get something coming in through the plug points here or through where the
screws are. Now I don't really see that happening because they're really quite deeply recessed.
The gasket on here seems to be of us a foam material rather than rubber and to be honest
I think that's probably your weak point I could be entirely wrong of course.
I want to just have a look at this as an example guys, I do a lot of scuba diving yeah now this is
a camera housing so I'm quite used to dealing with things that fog up. It's a little bit of my forte,
if you look at the gasket here on anything that goes under water there's going to be a rubber
gasket there rather than a foam material, that's always going to be best but then also if you see
this on the front. There's a vacuum pump system and that allows you to remove any air that's in
the system before you jump in the water so that that temperature shift doesn't cause
any condensation, now of course on a unit like this we don't have that kind of luxury.
Again another common issue when you're diving is that your mask will fog up and that will happen
every time you dive unless you put something on the inside of this yeah. Now what I do is I
put soapy water in here before I dive some people spit on it or they spray a solution and that just
puts a little coating on there. I'm going to clean this housing and then I'm going to clean it with a
little bit of washing liquid yeah, now that sounds counter-intuitive that we're adding moisture to
the inside of this. As I say I'm a scuba diving instructor yes and this is a little trick we use
on you know any sort of scuba masks and stuff like that. I've got a tiny little bit of this washing
up liquid and now I do mean tiny. You know I'm not slathering it on. that's a bit smeared there,
what I'll probably do is I'll just add a little bit of water to that just to smooth it out
then I'll allow it to dry on the radiator, I've put a little bit of water on this cloth.
That's looking pretty tidy I must admit now believe it or not you can't see it but there
is a tiny little film of that you know washing up liquid on there yeah which should hopefully
in the future stop that from fogging up just quite so much. One of my subscribers gave me
this idea now if you don't have something like this lying around you can use something like um
fishing pole elastic yeah that's also a hollow rubber as I say one of my subscribers told me
about this it's either Henry or Harleyd it was about a week ago sorry I forgot guys it
was one of the two. You both always give me great ideas so I'm going to thank both of you anyway.
Guys I've decided I'm going to keep the little foam gasket in there yeah and then I'm going to
just run this little extra one around, now when you see people do this they might use silicon
or whatever but just you do whatever you think is right I mean you might not want to do any of
this yeah, you might not want to clean it with soap or whatever. I'm taking my time because I
don't want to damage anything because you know I don't want to damage any of this obviously,
otherwise I'm going to need a new unit and that kind of defeats the purpose. Just make sure it's
in nice and neat and nice and tight and it's not kinked or buckled. You can see there that that's a
new.. essentially a new little rubber ring all the way around there yeah. Now folks you'll see people
do different things and you'll read on forums people doing different things and they talk about
you know drilling holes etc you know to allow more airflow and that will stop the condensation.
That's undoubtedly true yeah or some people might you know add a bit of silicon around here.
Sorry to bang on about the scuba diving analogy but I think it's a good way to explain this,
if the mask were leaking and there was moisture getting in there I wouldn't put holes in it I
would make sure that the seal is nice and tight to my face yeah so I would tighten that up
and that's exactly what we're doing here. The key is to keep the moisture out, now you can silicon
it shut if you want to as at the end of the day that will probably work but for me if this was
going to start to leak I would simply change the gasket. These things don't tend to leak on
the glass or through the screws or anything like that and I think that these gauges are probably
the same in all honesty I really believe that this is the weak point here.. this little foam gasket.
Sorry for the rudimentary science here guys, these silica gel packs start out blue when they're dry
and as they gain moisture they go pink eventually sort of red,
now you can recover them all you want to do is stick them in the microwave or put them
in the oven. This has had about an hour on the radiator and I've just allowed that soap to dry
onto there so as you can see it's absolutely crystal clear you wouldn't know that there was
a little film of fairy liquid on the inside of that. Let's find a little space for this.
Okay it's going in there you may want to use one that's slightly smaller than this yeah
but to be honest as long as you don't burst the bag.
You don't want silica gel all over the inside of your your gauges there.
So let's see how this pops back on here let's see there we go.
Perfect! I'm going to screw this down nice and tight so that there's a good seal against that
little rubber O ring that I've put in there. I know that was a little bit unusual but
it's something I know really well. Obviously I'm not doing this in a vacuum there's moisture in
the air in here so even though it's nice and dry and putting that sealed unit back together again
there's still going to be moisture inside this yeah tiny little amount but that little silica
bag in there is more than enough to soak up any residual moisture that's in the air
inside this now. Let me know in the comments folks if this is something that you have had an issue
with you know and how did you resolve it, have you resolved it, have you put holes in it like
some people to allow that airflow, have you put a silicon bead around here to try and seal this up
or have you done something completely different? I'm hoping that this is the
the final result for this but if it hasn't then I'll look at it again in the future
and I'll keep you posted on it. Anyway that's it for this one guys I really hope you liked
it if you did give me a thumbs up subscribe down below and I'll see you in the next one.