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Saturday, October 31, 2015
Furlex part 4
Here are some additional short clips to help you better understand how the assembly went together
Furlex part 3
Well now you have the cable out and the cone is not damaged ,right. Otherwise its going to cost you more money
The swivel unit consist of an upper and lower bearing race.with 4 half housings
This part will require some duct tape and a place to assemble without loosing any of the 68 ball bearings that you have in your zip lock bag when you took the thing apart and it fell all over the place.
Work in an area where you can recover these bearings easily when you drop them, and you will.
There are 34 ball bearings for each assembly.
take the lower and upper race and tape them together lightly ,
Do NOT wrap the tape around the housing at all just make sure both ends just come together
Now from the top drop each ball into its race, when done put hand pressure on the top race and slowly remove the duct tape, holding both halves securely place the housing on to the lower bearing assembly and drop the swivel unit on top.DO NOT play with it leave it alone Or you will be starting all over again.
assemble the upper bearing in the same manner. Dont attempt to try and place the ball bearings into the upper unit by themselves , while it may look tempting you will not get the upper cone on and some of the bearings will fall into the assembly and then you have st start all over again with both the upper and the lower units
Use the duct tape sparingly put a bit of pressure on the assembly when you pull the tape off and all should be fine.
Now slip the locking cone over the top, Dont forget the two nuts that hold the countersink screws in place.
The sandpaper collar did not work but it was a nice try
This should complete the assembly of the lower unit which is now ready to accept the new cable and the aluminum extrusions.
We will talk about those in part 4
The swivel unit consist of an upper and lower bearing race.with 4 half housings
This part will require some duct tape and a place to assemble without loosing any of the 68 ball bearings that you have in your zip lock bag when you took the thing apart and it fell all over the place.
Work in an area where you can recover these bearings easily when you drop them, and you will.
There are 34 ball bearings for each assembly.
take the lower and upper race and tape them together lightly ,
Do NOT wrap the tape around the housing at all just make sure both ends just come together
Now from the top drop each ball into its race, when done put hand pressure on the top race and slowly remove the duct tape, holding both halves securely place the housing on to the lower bearing assembly and drop the swivel unit on top.DO NOT play with it leave it alone Or you will be starting all over again.
assemble the upper bearing in the same manner. Dont attempt to try and place the ball bearings into the upper unit by themselves , while it may look tempting you will not get the upper cone on and some of the bearings will fall into the assembly and then you have st start all over again with both the upper and the lower units
Use the duct tape sparingly put a bit of pressure on the assembly when you pull the tape off and all should be fine.
Now slip the locking cone over the top, Dont forget the two nuts that hold the countersink screws in place.
We will talk about those in part 4
Furlex part 2
Removing the extrusion from the Lower bearing assembly was not easy and took about an hour and a fair amount of heat and prying.
Once out the cone got cleaned up and ready to be but back in service
The left over cable was then removed , all threads and fittings cleaned and refitted
An old Furlex that i bought
In this series we are going to address the disassemble y , rebuild and installation of a 1989 type a furlex system that i got real cheap off an old mast.
The unit is heavy with ss bearings and BIG .
First do not bend the extrusions, if one or two are already bent avoid any further damage by placing the entire unit on a flat surface. This unit as with all furlers they where not designed to be disassembled , so follow my steps and avoid my mistakes and you will be fine.
Measure your head-stay and determine how long it has to be. If the used furler is at least 2 to 3 feet longer your in luck, if its any shorter you will need to buy a new head-stay cable. as you will see later as the project progresses
A strait section
A bent section
this is margenal
the old luff tape opening.this part is of different dimension as you will see as we go on
The business end ,totally disassembled with the cable exposed
If you have this piece in your hand you will also have an entire large zip-lock bag full of small parts the you did not loose during dis assembly
If you can get in there cut the exposed cable as you will not be able to get the cone out of the end of the unit with everything attached. Dont try ,you will cause more damage
If you cant get a clean cut , cut at the end of the extrusion to separate. In doing so you will destroy a locking pin and part of the lower extrusion insert. This is why its important that you have that extra 3 feet to work with, you can then reuse the same cable.
The cable must be cut in order for you to separate the foil sections . Yes they have to be separated or else you will have a very difficult time during reassembly. This unit comes apart as a single function as you will see later.
Once you have gone this far remove the short piece of cable from the housing without damaging the end.
All this will be explaind step by step as we continue with the details of this project in part 2
The unit is heavy with ss bearings and BIG .
First do not bend the extrusions, if one or two are already bent avoid any further damage by placing the entire unit on a flat surface. This unit as with all furlers they where not designed to be disassembled , so follow my steps and avoid my mistakes and you will be fine.
Measure your head-stay and determine how long it has to be. If the used furler is at least 2 to 3 feet longer your in luck, if its any shorter you will need to buy a new head-stay cable. as you will see later as the project progresses
The top of the stay with the trim removed
If you have this piece in your hand you will also have an entire large zip-lock bag full of small parts the you did not loose during dis assembly
If you can get in there cut the exposed cable as you will not be able to get the cone out of the end of the unit with everything attached. Dont try ,you will cause more damage
If you cant get a clean cut , cut at the end of the extrusion to separate. In doing so you will destroy a locking pin and part of the lower extrusion insert. This is why its important that you have that extra 3 feet to work with, you can then reuse the same cable.
The cable must be cut in order for you to separate the foil sections . Yes they have to be separated or else you will have a very difficult time during reassembly. This unit comes apart as a single function as you will see later.
Once you have gone this far remove the short piece of cable from the housing without damaging the end.
All this will be explaind step by step as we continue with the details of this project in part 2
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