[Rhodes22-list] RINGS

[Steve Alm]

Ed,
The cotter rings that came with the boat were the kind with the opening on
the inside.  Is this what you call a pig tail?  They twist off easily with
bare fingers...and also apparently come off with no fingers :-(  Some are
stainless and others are galvanized and I'm not sure if they worked
themselves free or if they just broke but I can only conclude that these are
not safe at all. I've replaced some of them with the kind that are like a
key ring...tightly closed (non pig tail?) and/or I've also started using
cotter pins.  Stainless.

Slim

On 9/12/02 8:25 AM, "Ed Kroposki" <kroposki@innova.net> wrote:

> Slim:
>     What kind of cotter rings are you using?  Not only do mine not come by
> themselves,  I have to use two needlenose pliers to get them off.  They can
> not
> be done with fingers.  Mine are stainless steel both pig tail and non pig
> tail
> that I purchased in a large bag from sailnet a couple of years ago.  Some
> have been so hard to get off that I have had to destroy them to get them
> off.
> I think that they are 3/4" diameter or some may be 1" made of very heavy
> wire that just makes it thru the smaller holes on the clevis pins and
> turnbuckles.  I don't have a wire caliper, but mine are heavy duty.  Cotter
> rings do come in thinner gauge wires.  Could that be part of the problem?
> 
>                                             Ed K
> 
> 
> 
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