[Rhodes22-list] What's up with my mast?

[John Lock]

Excellent!  Thanks for that link.  I'll get some measurements later 
today, but I'm almost certain they aren't like that.  Particularly 
the hole patterns, I don't have nearly that many.

The "gooseneck" that I have is really just a metal rod pinned into a 
bracket, which is fixed onto the mast.  There is another bracket 
screwed to that rod, which accepts the pin from the boom end.  That 
metal rod could not act as a slider inside the mast because its 
diameter is too large, won't fit up in there.  But something similar, 
manufactured to the right dimensions, would do the trick.

SPeaking of which, my research so far has turned up both netal and 
nylon sliders that might be used to make something.  Any advantages 
of one material over the other?

Cheers!
John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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>There is a reason I save old email.  Credit Todd this time for a sketch of
>what  GB's standard mast should look like.
>http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200407/06/mastholes.jpg