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What is wrong with this photo of the Bellnonah foot brace bar?
P2160018 by Mike McCrea, on Flickr
Oh, yeah. . . .I installed the foot brace bar atop the rail on one side, and below the rail on the other. Yeah, yeah, whatever, it was late in the day. Pay attention next time. (Good luck with that).
Easy enough to move the bar correctly back atop the side rails.
Or, actually, not easy enough, even with the hull on horses at a convenient work height. I really don’t care for threading on nuts, even wing nuts, working blind on the underside of the rail, and twisting stuff on upside down. Ehh, errr, is that now lefty tightly righty loosey, wait, no, that’s not twisting on, maybe the other way around. Nope, not that way either. Jeeze I wish I could see what I’m doing on the threads.
I don’t want the wing nut on top for the possibility of hooking a boot lace around it, but that sure would be a lot easier.
I saw that Swift uses an easy pin attachment, like a giant safety pin, on their carbon foot brace, which seems genius.
https://www.swiftcanoe.com/carbon-components?lightbox=c1kan
Whatever that spring pin is called (?) my wonderful country hardware had them, in a variety of sizes, and I brought the Wenonah side rails and Bell bar into the store for a test. Yah, they had a variety of pin sizes that fit easily.
All of which worked very poorly. The Swift carbon rails and bar must groove together in some fashion. Using those whacamallcit pins in the old school L aluminum side rails the bar rode up and out of position the length of the pin. And even if that held-higher-and-more-distant adjustment was acceptable (not), the assembly would have rattled like crazy on the truck roof racks.
FWIW, annoying rattle-wise, our Wenonah Wilderness has the adjustable seat hanger plates. Without a piece of minicel stuffed between the aluminum plate hanger and the sidewall of the canoe the hangers rattled in transit like an SOB. Positioned cab forward on the van’s 4 boat rack that rattle seat was just behind the driver’s side window.
I always keep my window cracked open a bit or auditory driving sense. 100 miles of maddening rattle was plenty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97kbv4mbsc
Stuff a sock in it. Which I did at the first rest stop, one on each side. And glued in some minicel as soon as we got home.
(Ooops, ranting again. Back on my meds. A chunk of minicel stuffed & glued between the hangers and hull keeps that from happening with those Wenonah adjustable seat drops. OK, I don’t like stuff that rattles. Not that I’m complaining, or full of peculiar pet peeves. Not me)
Back to wing nuts. Any ideas for something besides wing nuts, that doesn’t require tools, to use as a foot brace bar connection to drilled rail?
Or just put the dang bolts in from the bottom up, twist the wing nuts on visibly from the top, and get over my phobia about foot entrapment by never ever wearing anything with laces?
P2160018 by Mike McCrea, on FlickrOh, yeah. . . .I installed the foot brace bar atop the rail on one side, and below the rail on the other. Yeah, yeah, whatever, it was late in the day. Pay attention next time. (Good luck with that).
Easy enough to move the bar correctly back atop the side rails.
Or, actually, not easy enough, even with the hull on horses at a convenient work height. I really don’t care for threading on nuts, even wing nuts, working blind on the underside of the rail, and twisting stuff on upside down. Ehh, errr, is that now lefty tightly righty loosey, wait, no, that’s not twisting on, maybe the other way around. Nope, not that way either. Jeeze I wish I could see what I’m doing on the threads.
I don’t want the wing nut on top for the possibility of hooking a boot lace around it, but that sure would be a lot easier.
I saw that Swift uses an easy pin attachment, like a giant safety pin, on their carbon foot brace, which seems genius.
https://www.swiftcanoe.com/carbon-components?lightbox=c1kan
Whatever that spring pin is called (?) my wonderful country hardware had them, in a variety of sizes, and I brought the Wenonah side rails and Bell bar into the store for a test. Yah, they had a variety of pin sizes that fit easily.
All of which worked very poorly. The Swift carbon rails and bar must groove together in some fashion. Using those whacamallcit pins in the old school L aluminum side rails the bar rode up and out of position the length of the pin. And even if that held-higher-and-more-distant adjustment was acceptable (not), the assembly would have rattled like crazy on the truck roof racks.
FWIW, annoying rattle-wise, our Wenonah Wilderness has the adjustable seat hanger plates. Without a piece of minicel stuffed between the aluminum plate hanger and the sidewall of the canoe the hangers rattled in transit like an SOB. Positioned cab forward on the van’s 4 boat rack that rattle seat was just behind the driver’s side window.
I always keep my window cracked open a bit or auditory driving sense. 100 miles of maddening rattle was plenty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97kbv4mbsc
Stuff a sock in it. Which I did at the first rest stop, one on each side. And glued in some minicel as soon as we got home.
(Ooops, ranting again. Back on my meds. A chunk of minicel stuffed & glued between the hangers and hull keeps that from happening with those Wenonah adjustable seat drops. OK, I don’t like stuff that rattles. Not that I’m complaining, or full of peculiar pet peeves. Not me)
Back to wing nuts. Any ideas for something besides wing nuts, that doesn’t require tools, to use as a foot brace bar connection to drilled rail?
Or just put the dang bolts in from the bottom up, twist the wing nuts on visibly from the top, and get over my phobia about foot entrapment by never ever wearing anything with laces?
