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ikw777 > 9 months ago, 19 Jan 2014

ikw777

QLD

2995 posts

19 Jan 2014 4:31pm

This can't be right.

NotWal

QLD

7435 posts

19 Jan 2014 4:43pm

You've been tricked. That's a piece of rope dipped in tar.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

19 Jan 2014 2:43pm

Yep that has exactly 5 seasons - or 5mins - left in it

ikw777

QLD

2995 posts

19 Jan 2014 9:24pm

Call me an over-cautious scaredy-cat, but I chose to replace it...

d11wtq

VIC

89 posts

20 Jan 2014 8:54am

Call me a n00b, but what is it?

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

20 Jan 2014 9:02am

I've got a bucket full of them and not one of them ever broke. Amazing piece of equipment considering the forces that get transferred through it.

RumChaser

TAS

629 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:28am

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d11wtq said..

Call me a n00b, but what is it?

It's the bit that attaches the mast foot to the mast base. Another type is called a boge joint and it looks more like an hourglass.

Sailhack

VIC

5000 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:40am

It looks like my finger after squashing it on the weekend hooking up some lifting chains - about the same colour too.

d11wtq

VIC

89 posts

20 Jan 2014 7:47pm

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Iceman said..

d11wtq said..

Call me a n00b, but what is it?

It's the bit that attaches the mast foot to the mast base. Another type is called a boge joint and it looks more like an hourglass.

Oh, thanks. I just had a look at my mast base and see how that works now. I'd never really looked closely at it. It just seems to flex, so I guess they wear out over time? I thought they were actual mechanical gimbal joints.

ULF

QLD

261 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:05pm

I never would have guessed it looked like that when you described it. No wonder that uni felt dodgy.

vando

QLD

3418 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:19pm

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sausage said..

I've got a bucket full of them and not one of them ever broke. Amazing piece of equipment considering the forces that get transferred through it.

Haha Ive got a bucket of broken ones, I'm now trying the north clear ones to see how long they last me or
maybe i should just stop sailing so much

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:33pm

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vando said..

sausage said..

I've got a bucket full of them and not one of them ever broke. Amazing piece of equipment considering the forces that get transferred through it.

Haha Ive got a bucket of broken ones, I'm now trying the north clear ones to see how long they last me or
maybe i should just stop sailing so much

Yeah I noticed that lovely clear north tendon at xmas.
I wonder if they break because you guys have them stored in a hot car with the gear i.e. heat effected whereas mine have never broken because they are only ever under a house (concrete bunker virtually) with very little temperature differential.

John340

QLD

3373 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:34pm

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vando said..

sausage said..

I've got a bucket full of them and not one of them ever broke. Amazing piece of equipment considering the forces that get transferred through it.

Haha Ive got a bucket of broken ones, I'm now trying the north clear ones to see how long they last me or
maybe i should just stop sailing so much

Vando,

On average, how many kilometres do you get from a Tendon?

vando

QLD

3418 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:53pm

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sausage said..

vando said..

sausage said..

I've got a bucket full of them and not one of them ever broke. Amazing piece of equipment considering the forces that get transferred through it.

Haha Ive got a bucket of broken ones, I'm now trying the north clear ones to see how long they last me or
maybe i should just stop sailing so much

Yer could be snags but no different to most people, not everyone has a concrete bunker

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John not sure km wise i would say on av 3 months sometimes less

Gestalt

QLD

14722 posts

20 Jan 2014 10:59pm

could be vando gets tendonitis.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

20 Jan 2014 9:06pm

God Vando, what are you doing to them? I get 2yrs from a tendon and replace voluntarily.
The gear stays in the car for most of summer so it sees 60deg or so for at least say 30 days a year, so dunno about Sausage's bunker theory

vando

QLD

3418 posts

20 Jan 2014 11:15pm

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Mark _australia said..

God Vando, what are you doing to them? I get 2yrs from a tendon and replace voluntarily.
The gear stays in the car for most of summer so it sees 60deg or so for at least say 30 days a year, so dunno about Sausage's bunker theory

Dunno Mark id be happy replacing them once a year

Sputnik11

VIC

972 posts

21 Jan 2014 12:17am

....as the actor said to the bishop........

ikw777

QLD

2995 posts

20 Jan 2014 11:54pm

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vando said..

Dunno Mark id be happy replacing them once a year

Sail more, break more... The one in the pic was new in October, so four months.

seanhogan

QLD

3424 posts

21 Jan 2014 8:37am

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+1

I sail 4 times a week, mine last 2 to 3 years.
Agree with Gestalt, Vando you must suffer from tendonitis !

What I've noticed is that the ones that crack are the less frequently used ones, seems that they go dry and break. Whereas the ones that are on the water all the time seems to last for ages !

mr love

VIC

2415 posts

21 Jan 2014 9:51am

The Dodgy QLD water where Vando sails. Has to be. If he spent his time in the pristine surrounds of Pookipa he would not have any problem with tendonitis, the typhoid would kill that.
Back on subject I use the rubber unis as they absorb the shocks on PPB a bit better. Generally get 2 years out of them without a problem, in fact I think I have only ever broken 2 in 30 years of windsurfing.

pilchard

626 posts

21 Jan 2014 9:37am

Touch wood never broken one, never looked like breaking one.
Hot as all feck here in SA and on the back of the ute for weeks on end.
Lost more than worn out, I use chinook tendon that has safety rope built in for the unlikely chance it snaps

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

22 Jan 2014 11:23pm

Out of interest are the tendons that have broken Chinook or another brand?

Here's a few from my bucket

vando

QLD

3418 posts

22 Jan 2014 11:44pm

I think they were Chinooks but how do ya tell.
Ive broken one first time out before, so I must be very unlucky maybe a bad batch.
anyway so far so good with the north one

greenleader

QLD

5283 posts

23 Jan 2014 1:05am

yer swim saver ropes and webbings are too short and are distorting your feckin tendons!..where did your mother and i go wrong! ;)

vando

QLD

3418 posts

23 Jan 2014 9:10am

Good point Greeny never looked at that. If the ropes too short transfers the load back onto the tendon rather than just bending.
I never touch the rope though from new but will check it out.

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

23 Jan 2014 10:10am

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greenleader said..

yer swim saver ropes and webbings are too short and are distorting your feckin tendons!..where did your mother and i go wrong! ;)

Posting at midnight p1ssed again Greenie

. I think the distortion of the tendon is through continual load compression as there is no tension on the rope even at 90+deg.

Vando, The chinook tendons have fine concentric cirlces from the mould at one end of the tendon and perpendicular holes.

PS - my mum says hi too Greenleader.

vando

QLD

3418 posts

23 Jan 2014 1:41pm

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sausage said..

greenleader said..

yer swim saver ropes and webbings are too short and are distorting your feckin tendons!..where did your mother and i go wrong! ;)

Posting at midnight p1ssed again Greenie

Mine are Chinooks then

Richiefish

QLD

5612 posts

23 Jan 2014 8:00pm

My tendon is fine... So is my cartlilage...Got a few sore muscles after last Tuesday.

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SeaSkip

VIC

97 posts

24 Jan 2014 3:43pm

Just replaced a couple, with Chinook. Nice tight fit in my Chinook base as expected, but quite loose in the other base (brand unknown). Are there different diameter sizes with different brands?

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