Skip, Very nice report, especially the balancing procedure. I will add it to my database.
I too, balanced my spinners very carefully and they were smooth enough but the tail still wiggles a bit a some speeds. I have always felt they should have a stiffening spine in the tail. After a number of years I had to repaint the blades because bare fiberglass was showing so I took the lead tape off and balanced the rotors by shaving material off the tips with a belt sander until I got a perfect balance. Perhaps the lead tape added weight that made the spinner turn more smoothly. They spin smoothly it seems to me, but "smooth" is a matter of personal taste without some sort of meter. My biggest problem is the azimuth bearing. The stock bearing is a piece of plastic and it made for a lot of rattle no matter which PVC adapter I used. I eventually made, at great expense, parts to use boat trailer roller bearings (the cheapest bearings I could find) for azimuth bearings. It is quiet now on the starboard side but the port still is a bit noisy at some speeds.. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Chesapeake Bay > [Original Message] > From: skipscopy <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Date: 10/10/2009 11:20:10 AM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Fixing a KISS > > Hi, Norm, and list, > > I didn't have to do what you did in my recent disassembly of my KISS, but I > have a couple of addenda. > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
