George Foose
Ericson in Thailand
I was thinking about replacing the turnbukles on my e 38 . I went to Navtec and discovered they had a Phuket agent/distributor. he went to my boat and reported as follows.
"The problem being that you turnbuckles are unconventional in that they are have inverted toggles to match the rectangular shape of the chainplate. Current turnbuckles have an integral toggle with a forged pin that is not removable and therefore the toggle is not reversible. To use a conventional turnbukle with the clevis pin at the bottom of the toggle will point load your chainplates. You may regard this as unacceptable. "
"The only way I can immitate the existing arrangement would be to have our navtec turnbuckles re-engineered locally. This would involve removing the forged pin by cutting and drilling and then inverting the toggle."
I have looked at the Navtec picture and the one taken of my e38 shroud base and to me it seems that the simple way is to just supply the turnbuckle only and forget the toggle.
Does anybody have a comment on this??
"The problem being that you turnbuckles are unconventional in that they are have inverted toggles to match the rectangular shape of the chainplate. Current turnbuckles have an integral toggle with a forged pin that is not removable and therefore the toggle is not reversible. To use a conventional turnbukle with the clevis pin at the bottom of the toggle will point load your chainplates. You may regard this as unacceptable. "
"The only way I can immitate the existing arrangement would be to have our navtec turnbuckles re-engineered locally. This would involve removing the forged pin by cutting and drilling and then inverting the toggle."
I have looked at the Navtec picture and the one taken of my e38 shroud base and to me it seems that the simple way is to just supply the turnbuckle only and forget the toggle.
Does anybody have a comment on this??