I see crews struggling with adjusting the foot steering in 2- and 4x boats: centring the rudder and maintaining cable tension. The problem is rooted in a simplistic single screw that clamps down the two steering wires entering from left and righttowards the steering foot. Often the wires would slip or break an adjusting takes several people. What is the best design to attach these wires to the footplate that ideally permits to adjust the position, permits to control the tension, does not requite
-- CBowden cable based footplates for the win every time. It means you can get the full range of adjustment on the stretcher without having to touch the cable, change tension or risk an off centre rudder. In my experience you get a smoother steering action
Bowden cable based footplates for the win every time. It means you can get the full range of adjustment on the stretcher without having to touch the cable, change tension or risk an off centre rudder.
the boats I see, it seems better to maintain tension at the rudder or somewhere in between and to control only centering at the steering foot.Bowden cable based footplates for the win every time. It means you can get the full range of adjustment on the stretcher without having to touch the cable, change tension or risk an off centre rudder.Do you suggest to use one wire that starts and ends at the rudder, or two and where would these meet? I believe part of the problem is using one mechanism for tensioning and centering when two wires meet at the footplate. While that seems common for
— CThe type of bowden cable i mean has two wires to the rudder as in "conventional" setups. The cable is routed through a bowden sleeve that is fixed between a point forward of the footplate (usually the shoulder/bulkhead in front of the stretcher) and
On Friday, 16 September 2022 at 06:59:50 UTC+1, lin...@gmail.com wrote:the boats I see, it seems better to maintain tension at the rudder or somewhere in between and to control only centering at the steering foot.
Bowden cable based footplates for the win every time. It means you can get the full range of adjustment on the stretcher without having to touch the cable, change tension or risk an off centre rudder.Do you suggest to use one wire that starts and ends at the rudder, or two and where would these meet? I believe part of the problem is using one mechanism for tensioning and centering when two wires meet at the footplate. While that seems common for
encases the cables up to a mounting point on the footplate. That way the tension of the rudder cables is completely independent of footplate position, it can be adjusted wherever convenient along the cable length. In some setups the cable tension can be— CThe type of bowden cable i mean has two wires to the rudder as in "conventional" setups. The cable is routed through a bowden sleeve that is fixed between a point forward of the footplate (usually the shoulder/bulkhead in front of the stretcher) and
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