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While I was underneath the cockpit cleaning up these diesel fuel mess, I noticed that a cotter pin had come out of the pin that goes through the sheeve for the steering underneath the pedestal. One pin is stainless steel the other pin is brass. Edson had changed to all stainless a number of years ago.
Good to check your pins. Lucky that didn’t brake last year on my way back from the Bahamas.
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Alan,
There sure are a whole lotta’ systems to monitor,
aren’t there? Glad you found your missing cotter pin
before it found you.It’s a good idea to inspect the entire steering system
carefully from time to time. I tend to do it when
preparing for an offshore passage, as part of a long
pre-voyage checklist I still use from my delivery
captain days. (Otherwise, it’s so easy to overlook some
things that matter, to take them for granted.) I also
periodically grease the steering cables at the
horizontal turning sheaves – just happened to do that
last week, in fact.But I’m still going to go and look at the clevis pin
cotter pins in there now. Thanks for the heads up.Tor
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Actually I remember checking those steering cables and greasing them while I was in Deltaville before I went south. So that Cotter pin must’ve fallen out and that clevis pin worn through after I left. Doesn’t take much time to wear through those pins.
AlanSent from my iPhone
Quote:On Jul 3, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Silverheels via maillist wrote:Alan,
There sure are a whole lotta’ systems to monitor,
aren’t there? Glad you found your missing cotter pin
before it found you.It’s a good idea to inspect the entire steering system
carefully from time to time. I tend to do it when
preparing for an offshore passage, as part of a long
pre-voyage checklist I still use from my delivery
captain days. (Otherwise, it’s so easy to overlook some
things that matter, to take them for granted.) I also
periodically grease the steering cables at the
horizontal turning sheaves – just happened to do that
last week, in fact.But I’m still going to go and look at the clevis pin
cotter pins in there now. Thanks for the heads up.Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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Probably as you say, but even though I was just in
there greasing Silverheels’ cables, I can’t honestly
say with certainty that the cotter pins are in place.
I’ve just added it to my checklist so I’ll remember to
look from now on. Part of the allure of sailing is the
uncontested, unavoidable fact that we are constantly
forced to learn new things. Personally, I am (and this
is no false modesty) too often reminded of how much I
don’t know. From what I can tell, it’s limitless.Tor
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Alan,
The clevis pin looks odd. Is it half-way worn through?Rich
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Little bit more than halfway worn through.
The gentleman at Edson was very good. he told me about the fact that they changed from brass pins to stainless steel.
I was actually underneath the cockpit staring up at the sheeves when I was on the phone. he asked me a couple questions about the plate that those sheeves are held with. The old ones are steel. The new plates are aluminum.
The uprights that hold the sheeves are attached by what looks like a large hollow rivet about 1 inch in diameter.
One of mine was rocking pretty good and he says it’s probably pretty close to the failure point and that it needs to be replaced.
You can buy the new plate for $265 and use the old sheeves.
So I guess there’s always a reason when something happens. I guess taking the fuel tank out force me to look up at the pedestal staring and see an almost failure point.
AlanSent from my iPhone
Quote:On Jul 3, 2014, at 2:41 PM, wrote:Alan,
The clevis pin looks odd. Is it half-way worn through?Rich
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Wow, spooky. I often use a hand mirror in the boat to
see things that would otherwise be un-seeable. After
reading your tale, I’m going to take it in there
beneath the cockpit and have a really good look around.
Just happens that I’m in the middle of re-painting my
(original) fuel tank now anyway, as much of it as I can
access. I know this won’t help the most vulnerable
section, the bottom, but I preserve and protect what I
can.Tor
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