I just got a new surf ski with adjustable pedals that aren't working out. The movable pedal inserts take up enough footwell width that my size 15's get trapped in there and the fiber pedals seem to me like they're just *made* to break under the kind of excessive pressure that a shoe-covered foot can so easily exert. One option would be for me to fit something like the center-pivot lever used on Hunt Johnson's Wave Witch (e.g. http://siolibrary.ucsd.edu/Preston/kayak/HJD/captions/redwhiteandbluewitchle.html) I kind of like that option - especially if the lever were pivited on a plate that was held to the hull with industrial-strength velcro and the steel cables were buffered with lengths of bungee for the last six inches. That way, excessive foot pressure would be relieved with stretch in the bungee or peeling off the velcro instead of breaking something. But the conventional way would be to pull out the adjustment inserts, attach new pedals to a sheet of aluminium backed with velcro hook, glue some velcro pile to the inside end of the wells, and stick the aluminium/hook to the pile. That would avoid having to drill into the fiberglass to mount a hinge for the pedals and give me the same adjustability but via velcro-d shims between the end of the footwell and the aluminium sheets. I guess I could make the pedals too in a pinch...but the real problem seems to be hinges. Once I tried replacement on another ski with hardware store brass hinges cut to fit, but the dissimilarity of metals (brass vs aluminium pop rivits) caused an electrolysis problem. Comments anyone? ----------------------- Pete Cresswell *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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