[Rhodes22-list] Electric Lift Blues solved (for now)

[Peter Nyberg]

Chris,

I took some pictures this morning,  don’t have time to work on uploading them at the moment.  Sometime this afternoon.

I also took some measurements.  The plastic strip is about 20” long, 2” wide, 1/2” thick on the outboard edge, and 3/8” thick on the inboard side.  So that’s how Stan gets the roller to be square to the surface it’s rolling on.  The ’track’ piece is tapered to compensate for the curve of the transom.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)


> On Sep 9, 2020, at 10:23 AM, Chris Geankoplis <chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I went out this morning and using the loose boom (everything is on the
> ground) to act as a long straight edge across the two vertical rails.  The
> difference between the  far port corner of the transom and the far stb.
> from the imaginary straight  line across the two rails is barely a quarter
> of an inch from  a perfect  90 degree angle along the midline of the boat.
> That is, I think pretty true.  So I was obsessing on the wrong spot.
> However, an improvement I think would be to angle the bottom 1" SS pipe
> just a bit so the wheel is at right angles to that portion of the transom
> where it rolls up and down. Or, give the wheel a bit of bevel so you get
> the same result.  I understand there is a strip or "track" that the wheel
> rolls on in later versions of this set up.  I'll retro fit it so the force
> is more evenly distributed.  So really, no problem here.  Thanks for all
> the advice and suggestions so that I could see the light of Stan's
> engineering.
> 
> Chris G
> Enosis