[Public-List] Edson Tiller head

[Gordon Laco via Public-List]

It solely the size of the market… there aren’t enough being sold even on a world wide scale to benefit economies of scale such as home hardware or automotive fittings.     No source will be cheap, but quality will very.

I know of no source for off the shelf tiller heads such as fit our boats.  They’re all short run semi-custom work.

Tern’s people would do a superb job, but they’d be starting from scratch and having to make an initial pattern… and that is not cheap.    I’ve seen good work done where missing metal is built up with brazing, then machined to spec.   Perhaps that’s the best way for you to go at this point.

Gord
#426 Surprise

On 2017-03-02, 3:23 PM, "Public-List on behalf of Stephen Gwyn via Public-List" <public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org on behalf of public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

    Is there something about bronze in particular that doesn't lend itself
    to mass production? Or is it just that sailboat fittings are produced
    in small volumes, which means they have to be done by hand? I see all
    kinds of manufactured items in many other metals cast and machined to
    very high precision at low cost in large quantities.
    
    More to the point though, I are there any other sources for off the shelf
    tiller heads? I see Tern Boatworks does custom casting, but that's unlikely
    to be cheaper than taking the existing one to a machine shop and having
    some work done.
    
    SG
    
    
    
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