[Rhodes22-list] Jammed IMF:(

[Stan Spitzer]

the _separate_ machine screw that connects the goose neck to the boom 
slider face plate has a lock nut on its backside so it cannot come off 
without using a wrench

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On 5/14/13 9:37 PM, PBR wrote:
> Stan,
> No matter how hard you try to idiot proof something there will always be a
> better idiot.  I had the screw that attaches the gooseneck fitting to the
> Mast slide fall out and dissappear (not sure exact terms here).  Lucky me,
> I happened to have another in the toolbox that seemed to fit perfectly -
> tightened right up.  Guess what happens when a screw that is a little too
> long is pointed directly at the furling tube.  At my next opportunity to
> head for the lake I found out.  The fit was so perfect the tube would
> almost make a complete revolution before stopping hard.  I was so puzzled
> in the parking lot at the lake that I gave up and trailered home.  Sometime
> over the next week I remembered that little screw I had replaced weeks
> before.
> -Anonymous
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