[Public-List] Mast Refurbishment

Andrew Johns johnsab9 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 07:45:18 PST 2020


We are also working on our mast this year.  We are installing new rigging,
cap shroud tangs, spreaders and brackets.

If you still have the nicropress rigging inspect the thimbles closely, I
found a cracked one on the lowers.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 8:15 AM Mike Meinhold via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Worked great for me also
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 07:43 Gordon Laco via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
> > The zip-tie cure was a perfect solution in our mast…
> >
> >
> > Gordon Laco
> > 426 Surprise
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 6, 2020, at 6:54 AM, Michael via Public-List <
> > public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >What should I be doing now that the mast is down and I can work on it
> > > >easily?
> > >
> > > My Brother-In-law, a lifer in the Army Signal Corps, was pretty
> > insistent I change out the co-ax when he saw I had the mast down on
> > Checkmate. SOP for the Army to do that anytime any sort of maintenance
> > issue rears up.
> > > Apparently water intrusion is guaranteed to happen over time, and that
> > affects signal efficiency.
> > >
> > > Michael Grosh
> > > #220
> > > P.S. I may have seen it in the maintenance manual, or maybe here years
> > past, but bundling the wires in the mast with zip ties every 3 or 4 feet,
> > leaving the tails intact, controls wire slap in the mast. Elegant
> solution,
> > I thought. The mast originally had foam rubber spaced all up and down the
> > insides-on Checkmate, anyway. How they were positioned, and how to get
> them
> > out, I leave for others to ponder.  MG
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