Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Inspection covers.

After some long thinking and wondering I came upon a solution to the problem of how to make the inspection port covers secure yet removable. My attempt to have them held with a screw system ran into problems when it then proved almost impossible to remove. Having observed that they're quite difficult to remove when they're just pushed firmly home, I decided to have friction keep them in, and then have a simple tool to pull them out. This lead to a saddle for each plug, which can be pulled with a simple L-shaped hook. I believe they'll be secure enough during sailing, and easy enough to remove for storage.

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