[Public-List] Grudgens and pintle question

[Gordon Laco]

The 'normal' manner to fit a rudder is to have the solid castings of the
pintles and gudgeons (I only call them Grudgeons if I suspect they are
harbouring malice toward me ;) ) bearing against each other.  If the rudder
is fitted with a heel pin, it is convenient to have its weight bear on the
gudgeon down at the heel.

I hope I am making sense... Basically it does not really matter what sort of
gaps occur.    Some boats (like the Folkboat) where the rudder is easily
removed and liable to be taken off from time to time, people set things up
so that the pintles are spaced such that one goes in before the other.  This
makes lining them up for shipping the rudder a 'one at a time' job.
Otherwise you have to try to watch both at the same time.  Marty Feldman
would have been good at this but most of us would find it nearly impossible.

Gord #426 Surprise






On 09/03/10 10:17 AM, "Matthew Hay" <mattrhay at gmail.com> wrote:

> I scraped clean my grudgens last night and I found that it contains six
> screws two from each side offset with one another and then two next to each
> other going the same direction right at the point were the grudgen meets the
> space between rudder and keel.  They are not bolts, but big screws that the
> tip of just comes through the other side.  The grudgen looks like it is
> solid brass (it is gold colored).  It looks very strong and I inspected for
> cracks and there are none.  My question is that the pintle below the grudgen
> is visible with probably about a 1/2" showing.  But the top pintle can not
> be seen.  It seems that the rudder is almost riding on top of the grudgen.
> Should I be able to see equal amounts of pintle on either side of the
> grudgen or is it normal to have a small gap on top and a larger one on the
> bottom.  I am going to take the shoe off next.  Perhaps the pin in the shoe
> has worn causing the rudder to slip down?  The rudder moves and works great
> and there is no side to side or back and forth play or rubbing feeling or
> sound?  It all looks so good I do not want to tamper with it if I do not
> have to.  Also, in the shoe the two bolts in the "shoe end" that go into the
> keel are much larger then the ones in the picture on the sight.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Matthew #314 1968
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