Originally marketed under the SEABOARD name.
Santeria has 5 different cars, 2 on the genoa sheeting track (6 pin), 2 on the genoa sheeting angler (4 pin), and 1 on the baby stay track (6 pin). Each pin runs on 6 stainless steel bearing. It would have cost me over 700$ to replace the cars. A company called RigRite still sells replacements for the Kenyon car system.
The project, take cars off for maintenance and repair.
What I found:
- years of old gunk and grime built up around the pins impeding bearing efficiency.
- Non stainless ball bearings, rusted together, really impeding bearing efficiency!
- Inspection of the genoa car sheaves mounted to the top of the cars are garbage.
- Some SS bearing had tiny flat spots from the years of wear and tear.
The solution:
- A good cleaning
- Throw out non-SS bearings
- Replace SS ball bearings with flat spots (Ordered a bag of 100 SS 3/16" bearings for 8$ at Fastenal)
- Fashion up new sheaves out of round plastic shanks until I can replace them...maybe next year.
The result:
- Free flowing, smooth cars along the baby stay and genoa car tracks
- The genoa sheet angling cars were running on ceased non-SS bearing and caused damage to the track by creating small burrs along its surface. I will have to sand and smooth down the aluminum burrs before the bearing will run unimpeded.
- Found round plastic shanks from an old junk drawer and used these to replace the sheave.
- Hours of swearing putting the bearing system back together
Cost of project: 8$
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