[Public-List] Rudder shaft tube

[George Dinwiddie]

Bill,

If you would be willing to take photos showing the construction, and 
send them to me with captions describing them, I'd be happy to turn them 
into a web page for others to reference.

  - George

On 12/25/13, 7:17 PM, Bill Boyle wrote:
> I'd like to start by saying thanks to all who responded to my
> questions on fixing the pin on the bottom of the rudder.  I'm in that
> process now.  We have removed the rudder.  That was a relatively easy
> job.  Our boat has the two part shaft and we removed the 5 bolts
> holding the rudder to the upper shaft.  We then removed the two
> gudgons, one on the keel and the other on the rudder.  They were held
> together with a pin that had been worn down to half it's size. The
> pin was not secured in either part.  It was free floating. I have a ½
> inch silicon bronze rod that I'll use as a replacement for both pins.
>
> This is an older boat and we have the fiberglass tube  that runs
> from the inside bottom of the boat to the bottom of the cockpit sole
> where the shaft goes through.    The tiller head and the shaft have a
> lot of play in that tube.  I haven't taken that off yet.  Can anyone
> tell me what is inside the tube in the way of bearings that might
> need to be replaced?  Since the rudder is off I just have to take the
> tiller head off and the shaft should just fall out of the boat.
>
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
> Bill Boyle
> Slainte
> #129
>
>
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