So after a year of waiting I finely got my official BL daggerboard push rods from the supplier. You may recall that last year I used a push rod made by a local machine shop. That rod worked fine but it was damaged in, um, lets call it an industrial accident. So I got two rods and they showed up in a flat box. As soon as I saw the box I knew something was wrong. The USPS had bent the roads in shipping in several places. Luckily I was able to call the supplier and they agreed that rods probably hadn't been packaged sufficiently to make the trip and are sending replacements. In the meantime moth repair continues, but I fear that the moth is going to be ready before the weather is...
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BL?
Ooops, should have been BR for Bladerider
Theoretically you can straighten a rod by putting it in a lathe or drill press and running at a low speed while bend it sideways, for example with a wooden block with hole in about the size of the wire
As you move the bend point along the wire the stress in the wire evens out due to the rotation of the wire....or so they say.
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