[Public-List] Mast Refurbishment

[Andrew Johns]

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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