vexilar making loud noise

[aaahoff]

I have an older vexilar about ten years old. It sometimes makes a high picthed loud noise. Sometimes if you give it a light tap the noise stops. temp doesnt seem to affect when it happens it just does it intermitinly. I took it apart somewhat but couldnt get the knobs off. does anybody have this problem any fixis??? Does anybody know the size of allen screw in the knob.... Thanks and good luck catching .

[BoxMN]

Probably needs new/cleaned brushes. That happenend to my LX5, after cleaning works great. I don't know how to do it, but it can be serviced, possibly by someone who just knows how, not specifically the manufacturer, either way it is free or cheap to "fix". Good luck.

[aaahoff]

Thanks it works fine just really annoying.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I agree it probably need to be cleaned.

[riverview]

my old fl8 makes alot of noise, it is over 10 years old. my new fl-18 even has some brush noise and it is onl 2 weeks old. id say is normal

[Jim Uran]

Mine's been doing it for a few years too, probably does need a cleaning.

[bloc004]

My 4 yr old fl-8 made the same loud screeching noise last week right when I tuned it on (cold) and then it stopped after a couple minutes. I tried to take mine apart to clean and got hung up on the Knobs. I tried everything short of snapping them off, and no luck...

[aaahoff]

thanks deitz found the allen screws for knobs are 1.5mm tahnks agian eveyone

[firedew]

Yea took me a while to find the little screw on the side of the knob too.Make sure you mark the settings before you remove the knobs.

[lumpyday]

Mine is about 10 years old and also does that. Seems to go away after it warms up. My buddy with his Mar cum always laughs at me...

[EBass]

Mine does that too once in a while.

[dan z]

oh the great hmmm of a vexilar. mines been doing since day 1 (fl-18) fish dont seam to mind the noise tho

[mnguy152]

what i like it starts being little louder when fish are underneth lol