Hi, I just bought my 1st cat, a H18 w/ wings. I need to do some repairs, one of which is to fix the rudders. I purchased some good used old style castings thru the classifieds here at the Beachcats.com. Thank you Elias. I have been studying the differences between the new & old style. The main differences that I see are adjustable locking plates (pins), rudder angle adjustment, and plastic versus aluminum cams. My H18 came with one new style rudder castings (upper & lower), and one broken old style. I have some machining skills and will make new plastic cams for the old style castings , and I am thinking about a way to adjust the rudder angle either by means of an adjustable jack plate that the rudder castings would mount on or an eccentric bushing mounted in my rudders to give adjusment. I also found another post about taking up the slack in the castings by using plastic spacer washers, which makes good sense These are just thoughts that I have at the present time. Any thoughts along this line?
I found a post on the "Do It Yourself Tips" section, dealing with an improvement to the old style castings. There is a lot of good information to be found here. Thank you TheBeachCats.com
Thanks, Keith
edited by: knedvecki, Apr 06, 2008 - 06:28 PM