Techno
09-01-2003, 09:25 PM
I figure I would bury way down here that thinger in my signiture.
From an earlier thread on cleats I had my mind changed on cleats and decided on the pin cleat type. Previous they were going to be pnuematicaly powered pop up cleats, 1 cylinder on the dash was the power source.
mcmaster carr has a heavy duty stainless steel pin with a cross bar so that will be the pin, can even use the cross bar as a mini bollard like tie up.
Since my cleat use is launching and the very rare tie up at a dock. (most around here suck). decided that a simpler cleat to be better and I have to reach it by hand anyway so why pop it up remotely?
The available hardware is taboo or overpriced or just plain ugly (subjective). Besides I don't get to stretch my styling abilities. buy and bolt ain't my way.
These aren't only the cleats but the 2 navigation lights on the bow. A groove gets cut centrally to imbed the LEDs.
The sig really don't show all of it but it's a flat raindrop about 3/8"or so thick. A bit big but visually if not aerodynamicly streamlined. A post on the bottom is the mount and drilled for the pin. Dirt simple. Still needs to be polished but broke my belt and am polishless now.
Just trying to corrupt -:rolleyes: instill in people to do some of the simple things themselves.
Here is the same thing but the anchor light. This was hand shaped so don't need anything special to make special.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/technostv/hpbimg/lightw.JPG
From an earlier thread on cleats I had my mind changed on cleats and decided on the pin cleat type. Previous they were going to be pnuematicaly powered pop up cleats, 1 cylinder on the dash was the power source.
mcmaster carr has a heavy duty stainless steel pin with a cross bar so that will be the pin, can even use the cross bar as a mini bollard like tie up.
Since my cleat use is launching and the very rare tie up at a dock. (most around here suck). decided that a simpler cleat to be better and I have to reach it by hand anyway so why pop it up remotely?
The available hardware is taboo or overpriced or just plain ugly (subjective). Besides I don't get to stretch my styling abilities. buy and bolt ain't my way.
These aren't only the cleats but the 2 navigation lights on the bow. A groove gets cut centrally to imbed the LEDs.
The sig really don't show all of it but it's a flat raindrop about 3/8"or so thick. A bit big but visually if not aerodynamicly streamlined. A post on the bottom is the mount and drilled for the pin. Dirt simple. Still needs to be polished but broke my belt and am polishless now.
Just trying to corrupt -:rolleyes: instill in people to do some of the simple things themselves.
Here is the same thing but the anchor light. This was hand shaped so don't need anything special to make special.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/technostv/hpbimg/lightw.JPG