Okay, here is an interesting problem:
I'm busy figuring out how to install the mechanical linear drive on a Hunter 44 DS. It never had an autopilot installed yet.
Looks like the steering arm is mounted a bit twisted on the rudder shaft. In the first picture the rudder blade is in the center, but you can see the two tiller levers are a bit rotated towards one side. This makes the endpoints of the auxiliary arm be off quite a bit and there is no good place to mount the drive as it is supposed to.
I'm not sure but it looks like the hole in the rudder shaft is not at a 45 degrees angle to the rudder blade (as it is supposed to be?) Can it be that this part of production was not carried out according design?
The steering from the whitlock stand is working fine, but I would think that steering to one side is more progressive than to the other, but I can live with that.
The problem I'm having is that there is no good spot to mount the linear drive.
The second photo is from an instruction on how to mount the linear drive from Hunter, but for me the mount point of the linear drive would not end up in this spot at all, but would be far away from the bulkhead and it would be a bad spot from a constructional strength perspective.
What would be the best way / easiest way to address this?
I'm busy figuring out how to install the mechanical linear drive on a Hunter 44 DS. It never had an autopilot installed yet.
Looks like the steering arm is mounted a bit twisted on the rudder shaft. In the first picture the rudder blade is in the center, but you can see the two tiller levers are a bit rotated towards one side. This makes the endpoints of the auxiliary arm be off quite a bit and there is no good place to mount the drive as it is supposed to.
I'm not sure but it looks like the hole in the rudder shaft is not at a 45 degrees angle to the rudder blade (as it is supposed to be?) Can it be that this part of production was not carried out according design?
The steering from the whitlock stand is working fine, but I would think that steering to one side is more progressive than to the other, but I can live with that.
The problem I'm having is that there is no good spot to mount the linear drive.
The second photo is from an instruction on how to mount the linear drive from Hunter, but for me the mount point of the linear drive would not end up in this spot at all, but would be far away from the bulkhead and it would be a bad spot from a constructional strength perspective.
What would be the best way / easiest way to address this?
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