you wrote:
Hole saws! Way too obvious! Why was 1/4 inch too thick? Looks like you
had plenty of room.
1/4 would have worked, but at the time the steering wasn't in and I
wanted to leave myself some room to fiddle. To align the steering
cables just right with the quadrant, it's easiest to move the entire
rudder post up or down a millimeter. That's a heck of a lot easier than
trying to move the quadrant or the idler pulleys under the pedestal.
I just went back and looked at it (for the first time in too long) and
the bearing looks fine from the side, so 1/8 inch is fine.
I can't really determine the wear on it without taking the donut off and
measuring it with calipers and messing up my entire steering, and I have
enough things to do right now. (I'm watching a James Bond marathon --
and no they don't broadcast that here, but I have a few TBytes of movies
that play on my 12V TV. note to self: buy more solar panels.)
Wal
PS, no it's not all fun and games. Actually I spent the entire day
taking buses to where I could get some real Ancor wire, connectors, and
a fuse holder. I just shipped some parts down, and the important part
is a Teledyne hour meter. The darn hour meter on the Tach quit after
the gears got out of alignment, because I bounced the boat too hard last
year. Darn square waves, there really ought to be a international
regulation prohibiting them. Heck, what's the UN for, anyway? Anyway,
the Tach works fine so why mess with it, and an hour meter costs $30,
and I can mount this one in the nav station which is where I'm always
sitting when trying to compute fuel consumption.
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