Trying to to fix some out of whack lateral pitch on some apparently bent riggers. The riggers seem to display somewhat severe droop, meaning at the pin I measure 4-# of lateral pitch, where we're looking for 0-#.I had a sim situation. I placed a sst fender washer in silicone caulk against the hull at all 3 bolts and adjusted the bottom from there with additional std sst washers as req'd. I probably should have re-checked the pitch of the oarlock, but did not. I believe Carl offers tapered shims on his site...
So far I've tried shims under the pin from an old beer can: can get the pin straight, but upon tightening the bottom nut it squeezes these shims out a bit, and after a couple of rows some of the shims have worked themselves out entirely.
My second idea is angled shims in between the rigger and the hull, to raise the pin slit (?) back to horizontal. (This would also have the affect of raising the pin vertically, but I think we have enough height adjustment on the pin to still work). Either that or grind down some plastic washers to have an angled surface, and place these on the base of the pin. Has anyone had success with these methods?
The pins appear straight, but very reluctant to start bending pins, especially to 4-#. Of course the ideal is a shiny new set of riggers that aren't bent to hell and back (or some of Carl's axior pins) but looking for a solution in the meant time?
Trying to to fix some out of whack lateral pitch on some apparently bent riggers. The riggers seem to display somewhat severe droop, meaning at the pin I measure 4-# of lateral pitch, where we're looking for 0-#.There are also the Carl Douglas "Axior" pins that help correct both stern and lateral pitch. My old shell that I purchased has a pair, and they're great, I can easily modify pitch both in and out along both axes.
So far I've tried shims under the pin from an old beer can: can get the pin straight, but upon tightening the bottom nut it squeezes these shims out a bit, and after a couple of rows some of the shims have worked themselves out entirely.
My second idea is angled shims in between the rigger and the hull, to raise the pin slit (?) back to horizontal. (This would also have the affect of raising the pin vertically, but I think we have enough height adjustment on the pin to still work). Either that or grind down some plastic washers to have an angled surface, and place these on the base of the pin. Has anyone had success with these methods?
The pins appear straight, but very reluctant to start bending pins, especially to 4-#. Of course the ideal is a shiny new set of riggers that aren't bent to hell and back (or some of Carl's axior pins) but looking for a solution in the meant time?
Trying to to fix some out of whack lateral pitch on some apparently bent riggers. The riggers seem to display somewhat severe droop, meaning at the pin I measure 4-# of lateral pitch, where we're looking for 0-#.Ally riggers? Big steel pipe over the pin & some gentle 'persuasion'. Or the tapered spacers made for just such a problem. Available most rowing accessory vendors.
So far I've tried shims under the pin from an old beer can: can get the pin straight, but upon tightening the bottom nut it squeezes these shims out a bit, and after a couple of rows some of the shims have worked themselves out entirely.
My second idea is angled shims in between the rigger and the hull, to raise the pin slit (?) back to horizontal. (This would also have the affect of raising the pin vertically, but I think we have enough height adjustment on the pin to still work). Either that or grind down some plastic washers to have an angled surface, and place these on the base of the pin. Has anyone had success with these methods?
The pins appear straight, but very reluctant to start bending pins, especially to 4-#. Of course the ideal is a shiny new set of riggers that aren't bent to hell and back (or some of Carl's axior pins) but looking for a solution in the meant time?
Trying to to fix some out of whack lateral pitch on some apparently bent riggers. The riggers seem to display somewhat severe droop, meaning at the pin I measure 4-# of lateral pitch, where we're looking for 0-#.
So far I've tried shims under the pin from an old beer can: can get the pin straight, but upon tightening the bottom nut it squeezes these shims out a bit, and after a couple of rows some of the shims have worked themselves out entirely.
My second idea is angled shims in between the rigger and the hull, to raise the pin slit (?) back to horizontal. (This would also have the affect of raising the pin vertically, but I think we have enough height adjustment on the pin to still work). Either that or grind down some plastic washers to have an angled surface, and place these on the base of the pin. Has anyone had success with these methods?
The pins appear straight, but very reluctant to start bending pins, especially to 4-#. Of course the ideal is a shiny new set of riggers that aren't bent to hell and back (or some of Carl's axior pins) but looking for a solution in the meant time?
Or - some beautiful, made-to-measure, hard-anodised AeRoWing riggers, complete with our AxioR pins? Very much _not_ bendable.Shirely everything metal is bendable *eventually*... ;-P
On Monday, 5 October 2020 at 09:33:12 UTC+1, carl wrote:
Or - some beautiful, made-to-measure, hard-anodised AeRoWing riggers,
complete with our AxioR pins? Very much _not_ bendable.
Shirely everything metal is bendable *eventually*... ;-P
Reminds me of the apocryphal postman who, when delivering some photographs in a card-backed envelope clearly marked "PHOTOGRAPHS - DO NOT BEND", wrote on the envelope "oh yes they do", then folded it neatly in half and popped it through the recipient's letterbox.
I so want that to be true.
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