[Rhodes22-list] RINGS

[Roger Pihlaja]

I've been using nothing but the stainless cotter rings that are like a key
ring on all of my standing rigging since I got the boat in 1987.  In all
that time, I've never had a single cotter ring fail or come off.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynmaic Equilibrium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Alm" <salm@mn.rr.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] RINGS


> 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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