Steve Posti wrote: > > A quick question...I recently bought a lightly used > Mellenium made by Old Town Canoe and Kayak. > > [snip] I noticed that the foot > pegs aren't pulling the rudder cable smoothly. There > seems to be something holding it up, especially on the > right side. [snip] > Before doing anything, I'm going to take a look at the > whole mechanism, but I'm curious, do you need to > lubricate the cables, and if you do, what should I use? No lubrication needed, under normal service, in my experience with Eddyline boats (SS cable running through a circular channel inside a plastic H-shaped extrusion). However, you may have a frayed cable, and there is no way to check it except to yard it out. How old is the boat? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 09:44:27 PDT
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