Sabydent builds a mini

I have changed the rigging on my mini. I would appreciate your help in letting me know if this looks right.

I am considering placing some rivets on the boom rather than using the knots for the two pulleys. Good idea or bad idea? I will tidy up the knots if I am keeping them.

Should I use a larger line for the downhaul?

Thanks for your help.


Brian

Pop rivets are fine on a land yacht.......... Your not going to fall out the sky
The reason people often use cord to attach pulleys is they can change them easily to adjust the setup.
My suggestion is use stainless steel rivets rather than aluminium as they corrode badly with high levels of salt, sand, mud etc.
You can only use rivets on metal tubing as other materials won't hold them.

I will get right on the paint job repair, sorry.

Aluiminium would be fine We must use what we have

I taped a piece of wood of the right size to suit the sheaves to the boom and covered it in plastic food wrap then laid two layers of glass cloth with a layer of carbon cloth between All wet out with resin
All was then covered with more plastic food wrap [We call it Gladwrap over here] and the wooden stick part was squeezed in my bench vice [with packers]and left to cure
I used the carbon cloth because I had some but I think four layers of normal
sheathing fibreglass cloth [ 12 ounce is it ? ] would be fine There is no metal reinforcement The aluminium you see is just to prevent the lower block becoming jammed between the other two when hauled down tight
The centre bolt clamps the set up to the boom in the selected place
I just use plastic sheaves from a boat shop with tube spacers in their centres and have done three like this now
They work pretty well Fit my cheapskate budget too

Thanks Hiko, I will give that a try.

Nikrum:

I wanted a neat boom end so here is what I did. I took a polyvinyl silicon impression of the boom end. (I have an old dental impression mixing machine with lots of old impression material in my shop...handy little guy) I poured the impression in dental plaster to get an exact duplicate of the boom end. I then used the machine we use for making dental mouthguards to vacuum form a plastic cover using 3mm clear plastic. I then cut the excess off with a hot knife. The resulting plastic piece snaped onto the boom end. For added security, I glued it on with Gorilla glue.

Damn! That is a bleedin' nice job. LAst I heard it was plain old Ali..
Tell me why is Dentists can use their Melons doing jobs like that but when you need them to be inventive medicly it is No Go??
Ron

PS; I told you you northerners were Anal about finish

Sorry Brian but I gotta pick this up BS in Medical Science?? So that is what Medical Science is all about[}:)] Mind you it is good to see Professionals keeping up with the chosen careers. Congratulations.
I spoke to a dental Prostheses t (Thet done look right) but anyway I asked about a Specialty Mouth Guard I wanted made. The isdea was a silicone seal affair that would fit mainly between Lips and Teeth as well as clamping in my teeth this would have been to seal against Air Pressure blowing out of my mouth when asleep as I use a CPAP machine. The answere was one of disinterest and No such thing. No thought of experimentation etc. Hence my doubts about inventiveness.

Ron