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Hi all,

 

Looking for some more advice please.

 

My Gooseneck has gained a bit of a wobble over the years, the centre piece that attaches to the mast has more oval than a circle hole for the bolt.  Any recommendations on how this could be repaired?

 

Thanks

 

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You may be able to ream it out to an even hole yourself by hand. A hard plastic bush of something like vesconite or similar works well and if you make a little extra as a spare now, you can tap the old one out and put a new one in further down the track when it wears again.

Loctite (and others) make a glue especially for gluing plastic bearing / bushes to metal housings.

    Vesconite or similar materials are easy to drill and shape. You will find that you can even do a bit of backyard machining by putting a bolt through the bush, with a washer each end and nut, then spinning it all in a drill (ideally a pedestal drill) . You use a file as the tool for coarse removal and sand paper / wet n dry wrapped tightly around a piece of flat wood for fine. This will , with a bit of care, be quite accurate enough for what you want to do.  

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Fosters Knuckle, should be stocked at NZ Rigging.

Be prepared to wait 6 months or more unless you know who does the machining for them. They don’t do cast ones anymore . Lovely guy but very slow with the small bits and bobs

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