[Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering

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   Gord... How about this?  You can comment on how successfully the RCN
   made the modernization to CF, with the petty officers becoming
   sergeants, commanders to colonels, and donning the elegant green
   uniforms. You can suggest the USN do the same, and wait for the
   approving cheers. You'll be the hit of the evening.
   Bob Kirk (curmudgen)
   p.s. The only time (except for one delivery) I ever drove wheel
   steering was on the Battleship USS Iowa.


   On 10/02/13, Gordon Laco wrote:

   Thank you Larry
   I've started the job; I reckon the worst of it will be the very tight
   access
   I'll report later.
   I won't be able to work on it this weekend; the USN has invited the RCN
   to a mess dinner commemorating the establishment of their service
   during their revolt. A posse of we Canadian officers are heading down
   Its a fair honour and I'm looking forward to it. I'm struggling for
   something witty to say about the event but am not coming up with
   anything.
   Gord #426 Surprise
   On 2013-10-02, at 8:09 PM, Lawrence Morris <[1]morris.lc at verizon.net>
   wrote:
   > I replace cables on my Rhodes bounty II a few years back because I
   broke a cable. I took the one good cable to the rig shop for
   replacements. Went back to the boat to install and discovered that
   there was a 6" difference in length from port to starboard. You guess
   it, back to the rigging shop( a 3hr round trip) for a third cable of
   the correct length. Lesson: measure both side twice and fabricate once.
   I used a piece of string, strung along the path of the cable to get
   this dimension.
   >
   > While you are at it, check the cheek block sheeve pins. Mine were
   worn 75% through. They are bronze rod of a standard size and are easy
   to replace once you remove the cheek block(hard to do). FYI the
   steering gear was a Edson from the same time period.
   >
   > If you have any questions you can call me. I am in the association
   directory.
   >
   >
   >
   >
   > Larry
   > Solstice 501
   > Sent from my iPad
   >
   >> On Oct 2, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Gordon Laco <[2]mainstay at csolve.net>
   wrote:
   >>
   >> Hello friends,
   >>
   >> Surprise is fitted with factory-installed American Edson wheel
   steering.
   >>
   >> Earlier this summer I felt a strange tug on the helm during a
   violent
   >> maneuver in heavy air. Iùve noticed since that the steering seemed
   rather
   >> slack, particularly when turning to port.
   >>
   >> With the 2013 Misery Trip coming up, I reckoned Iùd better have a
   look at
   >> the quadrant to see if I could figure out what was wrong; I was
   hoping today
   >> that all I needed to do was tighten up the cables.
   >>
   >> If you heard cursing coming from Midland, Ontario, well that was me.
   One of
   >> the steering cables has broken six of the seven strands. Thatùs
   what I felt
   >> and thatùs why the steering is slack. I have to replace the
   cables.
   >>
   >> I am sure I can figure out how to do this, but would appreciate the
   benefit
   >> of advice from any of you who have been through this ordeal. I was
   pretty
   >> depressed to see what I saw; but as I told my wife just now, those
   cables
   >> are probably nearly fifty years old. I should have planned on
   replacing
   >> them anyway. Well, now I have to do it.
   >>
   >> Standing by for comments, cruel jokes, funny stories....
   >>
   >> Gord #426 Surprise
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