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

[Chris Geankoplis]

Brilliant, the taper of Stan's is.
Chris (AKA Yoda) G
Enosis

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:53 AM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>