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winging it
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Topic: Loos gauge conversion Posted: 25 Sep 09 at 12:00pm |
I've got a tuning guide for a certain older style of 14 foot long dinghy which gives the rig tension figures in lbs. Does anyone know how these convert to relate to the figures on my standard Loos rig tension gauge?
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the same, but different...
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alstorer
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 09 at 12:02pm |
Varies with wire diameter. There's a handy guide on their website wot I found using that there google...
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 09 at 12:23pm |
Be careful that the hull can still take the strain after all these years, Nessa! Be a shame to turn her into a banana...
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fantasia
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 09 at 12:32pm |
My older style 16ft dinghy (Wayfarer) has 3mm wire and we set that to about 350lbs tension, measured mid height on the shroud reads just under 25 on the loos guage.
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redback
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 26 Sep 09 at 10:20pm |
I've got this from somewhere. We use about 150kg on the 4000. Loos Gauge conversion table Old kg New
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