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 Post subject: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:43 pm 
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At first I thought it might be my forward Aka slipping, but that seemed impossible due to how it mounts. A rough water day with the sail furled exposed the problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkMmaGP ... e=youtu.be

I took a section of nylon tubing and bored the inside...

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Turned the outside...

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To the appropriate sizes. Then epoxied the extremely thin collar to the mast base and fine tuned the fit.

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It's very clean now. Extremely little wobble. To be honest, it wasn't really hurting anything, but the "CLUNK" was a little disconcerting. Now it slips into place easily, but no more "clunk."


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:55 pm 
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Well done Tom....nice to see a fellow rod builder on the board :mrgreen: ....i may do this with some guerilla tape, my AI mast has a bit of slop...wishing i had a metal lathe.....i could throw the mast on my spinner and do multiple coats of epoxy until its perfect, i do this with ferruls sometimes

I would think even just that little bit of slop puts more strain on things..

So what kind of buttwrap are you guna do on that thing? :mrgreen:

-Jeff


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:31 pm 
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If it wouldn't be covered up by the mast....

Tape would probably take up the slop as well, but being somewhat soft it may not provide a good surface for the roller bearing to work against.

Something I thought about - a wrap of D thread coated with maybe 5 applications of Permagloss would take up about 1mm and offer a rock hard surface for the bearings to roll on. That might be a simpler way to do this.


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:06 pm 
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Yea definitly and the adhesion would be better with epoxy on epoxy.....having a constant supply of epoxy on hand is always helpful :mrgreen: .....i may try this need to check how much slop i have


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:45 pm 
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PG is much, much harder than any epoxy. Thus the bearings should turn nicely on it.


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:36 pm 
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Looks like good stuff, always had good luck with u-40 products.....probly stick with epoxy if i do it tho free is always better :mrgreen:


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:49 pm 
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BEST LINE EVER, " I don't like it, and I'm going to fix it.". Well done, sir.


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:29 am 
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Tom Kirkman wrote:
Something I thought about - a wrap of D thread coated with maybe 5 applications of Permagloss would take up about 1mm and offer a rock hard surface for the bearings to roll on. That might be a simpler way to do this.

Tom,
I'm interested in this "D thread". What is it exactly?
I'm looking for a better way to build up the TI's furling drum taper so that it fits the AI's mast tube.
Great workshop setup BTW! 8) :mrgreen:


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:46 am 
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Nylon rod guide wrapping thread in size D. This allows you to keep the drum concentric without having to do any machine work. The coating is an ultra-hard aerospace moisture curing urethane developed by a former Boeing chemist, although there are likely others that would work equally well.


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 Post subject: Re: Mast Wobble No More
PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:11 am 
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OK gotcha. Thanks for that.


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