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Maybe I have another boom, but when the end grip on my all carbon Neil Pryde
boom (same as fiberspar) no longer was holding the boom's length because the
teeth got worn down (this happened after I got tossed in the rinse rycle on
the coast - the boom end got forced in by a wave when hitting the bottom) I
hard a real hard time getting the end platic pieces off. I sawed them sideway
and try to squeze a flat screw driver in between to pop the end caps, but
couldn't cleanly. Maybe there was too much glue ? (maybe they had already been
changed).
I ended up having to cut the boom shorter by about an inch and pop new end
pieces instead. I tend to sail smaller sizes anyway :-)
not exactly what I would call maintenance work though... I would expect a
$400+ piece of equipment to not have such a problem... cheap piece of plastic
that will eventually wear out. Why couldn't they use pins and holes like
chinnook ? Agrrrr...
Geoffrey Boehm wrote:
>
> BTW, the whole repair only takes about 15 minutes (though it takes
> several hours for the glue to set up). I just think of it as
> maintenance - I probably spend more money and way more time replacing
> worn lines.
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