[Rhodes22-list] Boom coming loose from the mast

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I've had a problem this year with the bolt which holds the boom to the mast
coming loose. My recycled Rhodes is less than a year old. About 6 weeks ago
I discovered the boom had come loose from the mast. There is a bolt that
goes through a bracket and through the block on the mast and has a lock nut
on the back side -- very difficult to get to because you only have a slot in
the block where the furling line goes through. Because I didn't find my
locking nut right away, I replaced it with a new one. This one has come
loose two more times since then. Maybe I'm not tightening it enough, but I
don't know how to get any leverage on the nut which is very difficult to get
to. Seems like it now takes only 2-3 weeks of vibrations for the lock nut to
come loose! Anyone else have this problem? Maybe I need to find a better
lock nut. 

Bob



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Bob Weiss
Beach Spring
1998 Rhodes 22 Recycled in 2014
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