RE: Missing link
Eric Johnson (ej@blarg.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 13:27:29 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> Had my P-19 out for the first time last weekend. In the process
> of rigging it, I handed out the boom, only to discover that the
> gooseneck was missing. We went through that boat thoroughly, and
> all we found was a bent nail rusted in half. I found a cotter
> pin that was almost exactly the same diameter as the hole in the
> shaft of the gooseneck. After inserting the gooseneck shaft into
> the hole in the end of the boom, I rotated it until I could see
> the hole in the gooseneck shaft through the hole in the boom.
> I dropped the cotter pin into that hole and rotated the gooseneck
> around until the split end of the cotter pin was visible in the
> hole in the boom. With a large nail, I split the ends apart so
> the cotter couldn't drop out.
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> Anyway, anyone know what's supposed to hold that gooseneck in
> place? It can't be a bent nail.
I took my boom apart this weekend. Holding the gooseneck into the end
fitting was, yep you guessed it, a bent nail.
> I figure the cotter pin's got
> to be better than that. Plus, it's a near exact fit to the hole
> diameter. This cotter pin is also just about 3/4 thelength of the
> inside diameter of the boom.
I figure that the force on the boom is mostly one of compression, so the pin
doesn't normally bear much weight - mostly just serves to keep the gooseneck
from falling out.
- Eric Johnson, P19 #461 "Victoria", Bothell, WA