Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Injecting two part epoxy (WEST is my favorite) into any cracks, clamping and curing, then doing the threaded rod makes a Sunfish rudder, even after damage, nearly bulletproof!! Then sand and coat
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turluck
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
[sunfish_sailor] wrote:
Wow, sounds like an overzealous salesman talked to a non-engineer purchasing
agent (not the first time that kind of thing has happened).
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Randy Kramer
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#17220
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I trying to get what a coal mine roof has to do with a sunfish cracked rudder
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Hugh Gardner
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I build my rudder and centerboard for my self made sunfish clone using 3/4" and 1/4" marine ply epoxied together. The tiller is made out of white oak. I bought standard rudder hardware from
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Ralph Walker
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Very cool.
And far more reality-minded in scale than the guys who tried to use undersized bolts, similarly epoxy-set but only maybe one foot long, to hold up the massive concrete suspended-ceiling
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crispin_m_miller
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
He has to mark it up to make some money over his cost and Sunfish marks it up because "They are Sunfish"
John Owens
J O Woodworks / B & L Ram Pumps
903-894-6293
870 County Road 3812
Troup, Texas
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John Owens
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Competition cost, fun is affordable
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Hugh Gardner
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Oh, and I am glad you said it, and think it was entirely appropriate for you
to say it!
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Randy Kramer
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
[sunfish_sailor] wrote:
Wow, that pretty much s$%#s!
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Randy Kramer
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I probably shouldn't say this but I do know for a fact you can probably figure out.? The rudders you buy from Intensity are exactly the same ones you get from Sunfish Direct which are class legal.
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John Owens
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
wrote:
I guess you are replying to me (a fairly easy guess, but would be much easier
if you quoted some part of what you are replying to ;-)
Anyway, to the best of my recollection, nobody takes the
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Randy Kramer
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
That just sounds incredibly fun, where can I sign up for that! WHo gets to take the bolts out :)
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Signal Charlie
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Well, I guess I should / could go a little further -- they do hold up
mountains (or the earth's surface) until you do either longwalling or
pillaring at which time you intentionally want the
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Randy Kramer
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
[sunfish_sailor] wrote:
Just to give a different perspective, you can use a similar technique to hold
up the roof in an underground coal mine (and probably other similar mines) --
use a roof bolter
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Randy Kramer
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
Nice technique for a heavy-duty gluing dowel!
Now that you mention it, I’ve even used a similar trick to anchor a lag screw into stone. With one additional dodge that let me tighten it afterwards.
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crispin_m_miller
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
Pretty much every one of the 20+ Sunfish we have sold went through Craigslist. I had good luck with facebook marketplace recently with lawnmowers and generators, minimal spammers for sailboats.
I
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Signal Charlie
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
One other suggestion: you might see if you can donate the boats. Possible candidates would be a local scout troop for merit badge work, local kid's summer camp, high school shop class (to teach
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Mark Suszko
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I second what Mark said about epoxy and threaded rod. This is an awesome repair technique for lots of things, not just rudders. You drill a hole just a little bigger than the rod, and fill it
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Worth Gretter <wgretter@...>
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I made a new rudder for my sunfish from an old mahogany damaged center board I had laying around. It came out great. Got to use some of my old woodworking tools I had not used in years. Took about
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Michael King
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
Facebook Marketplace is popular here in West Michigan
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Mark Wild
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