I neglected to answer the second question: These days, take up eyes are simply easier to install in the system. If you have swaged threaded rod on the end of the cables, it can be a bear to thread down through the idler and turning sheaves around and through the holes on a quadrant or radial, whereas using take up eyes makes for a much easier threading of the steering cables through the sheaves and around the quadrant. The take up eyes can be pre-installed on the radial or quadrant and much of the initial tension can be pre-tensioned with rope clamps, adjusting the final length of the steering cable.
Also, a swaged rod can be subject to crevice corrosion where the cable end is installed into the threaded rod fitting, similar to a lifeline. Hard to see the corrosion when it is covered. Chuck Gilchrest S/V Half Magic 1983 35 Landfall Padanaram, MA From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 1:48 PM To: CnClist <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com> Subject: Stus-List Steering cable questions for Chuck Chuck, Why does Edson not want a nut opposite the tensioning and lock nuts. Just because it is redundant and serves no purpose? Is a tensioning stud bad? Is an adjusting eye better? Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:17 AM Chuck Gilchrest via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: Per Edson’s instructions, both nuts go on the “bitter end” of the cable. One is to tension the cable, the other is a locking nut to prevent the other nut from coming loose. FWIW, if you’re dealing with a swaged threaded rod on the end of the cable and chain, you’re using a 38 year old steering component that is recommended to be changed every 10 years. So cut the cable, remove the threaded rod from the radial drive, get a new chain/cable set up with take up eyes and rope clamps and be happy the old one never failed! Chuck Gilchrest 1983 Landfall 35
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