Re: [Paddlewise] Olive cleats

Dave Seng writes:
"Oh No!! <grin> Not the olive cleat thing again!  I've been reading about
olive cleats for years now and still can't picture what they look like or
how they work."
I've had a little trawl of the internet trying for a picture, with no success,
so here goes...
An olive cleat is attached to one end of a length of 6 mm bungy cord, allowing
the other end to be passed back through the olive cleat, adjusted to any length,
and locked off securing the loop.
Imagine a plastic barrel, (or an elongated acorn, or uhmmmm, an OLIVE!) 45mm
long, and 18 mm in diameter at the widest point, at the centre of the barrell.
The barrell has an 11mm hole at right angles to the long axis, through the
centre (hole A). Between hole A and one end of the barrell is a second similar
hole (hole B). Hole B is joined to the end of the barrell by a smaller hole 6 mm
in diameter drilled along the centre of the long axis of the barrell. The fixed
end of the bungy loop is pushed up this, out hole B, and knotted with a simple
overhand knot, and pulled back to fix it.
Back to hole A.... Hole A has a channel 6 mm wide running from it to the other
end of the barrell. This channel is lined with three diagonal ridges on each
side, like other fixed deckcleats e.g. see http://www.ronstan.com/vcleat.html
for a picture of the principle here.  The free end of the bungy is passed
through hole A from the side opposite the channel, and pulled into the channel
to secure it. The channel narrows at the end of the cleat to about 3-4mm, to
further compress the bungy cord and lock it in position.
Clear as mud? Dave, send me $20 AUD to PO Box 118 Heidelberg Victoria Australia
3084 and I'll send as many as I can to you for whatever freight and cleats the
twenty bucks will cover. The cleats themselves cost the princely sum of $1.20
each. They are very handy.
Regards, Peter T.







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