Hi! has anyone experience in installing this type of wiper? I purchased a "heavy duty TMC" Korean made wiper for my boat.... but there are almost no instructions nor tips on how to install it.
There is nothing but a leaflet explaining the electrics and a few lines on how to regulate the wiping angle. Same happens with other brands of wipers I also searched.
The windshield where I want to have this wiper installed at is fixed to a metal wall, and there is enough room for placing the motor on top of the frame. Once installed, the pivots of the motor should emerge from the wall about 2 inches above the windshields edge.
Pantograph wipers are basically all the same stuff: mine has a shaft emerging from a gearbox and a metal bar where a second (slave) shaft is screwed onto. Two identical arms are to be coupled each to one shaft while the opposite ends are linked to each other by means of a triangular plate that holds the wiper blade. My questions are: 1.- how to center the motor / gearbox assembly on the windshield: should I proceed as if a regular (non pantograph) wiper... this is in the center-line of the windshield? Or should I consider the center-line between both arms, which are 1 1/2 inches apart?
2.- the metal bar that holds the slave shaft is to be screwed to a sleeve surrounding the master shaft therefore (depending on how you turn it) the slave shaft can get centered with the motor or 180º opposed: does it matter how it is placed?
3.- The triangular plate has a bracket for the blade. This blacket is aligned with one of the arms. Should this arm be connected to the main shaft ? ( I assume it should) or to the slave shaft?
I have the feeling that I am "overthinking" this a bit!
Should I hire a guy for installing the wiper, he would just drill a couple of holes on top of the windshield and attach the gadget to it!
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