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Heavy Duty Pintles & Gudgeons
RL-390-G-complete set: $28.14
RL-390-Gudgeon: $3.92
Qty.
RL-390-L-Pintle (long pin): $10.72
RL-390-S-Pintle (short pin): $10.58

RL-390

Heavy Duty
Pintles and Gudgeons

The set consists of two gudgeons, one short pin pintle, and one long pin pintle. There is no hold down included. All parts are stainless steel - Fits 1" thick rudder. For additional dimensions see below.

RL-390

Heavy duty stainless steel gudgeon

thickness - 5/64"
3/4" x 3-3/4"
pin - 3/8"

RL-390-S  &  RL-390-P  Pintles

Heavy duty stainless pintles

strap - 4" x 1" x 5/64"
long pin - 3/8" x 3-1/2"
short pin - 3/8" x 3"
rudder thickness - 1"

Note: These pintles are made so that they can be bent 10-20% wider or narrower

RL-390-SW  &  RL-390-PW  Pintles

Wide Heavy duty stainless pintles

strap - 4" x 1" x 5/64"
long pin - 3/8" x 3-1/2"
short pin - 3/8" x 3"
rudder thickness - 1-3/8"

Note: These pintles are made so that they can be bent 10-20% wider or narrower

Feedback:

Finding a lower gudgeon for my Melonseed Skiff caused a problem for me. I tapered my skeg as the plans show, leading to difficulty using a gudgeon with 'legs' that fit on either side of the skeg, as the two sides of the tapered skeg are not parallel in the vertical direction. I found a solution -- a vertical gudgeon that attaches to the aft face of the skeg. You guys sell these for the Weekender. I bought one such horizontal gudgeon to use for the lower position and for the upper gudgeon and the two pintles (for a 1" rudder) I bought one of each of the RL-390's.

One very minor issue is that the amount to which the pintle leg holes in the gudgeons are offset from the wood they attach to differs slightly for the two gudgeons. The Weekender gudgeon is a bit 'beefier' and the hole in these is about 3/16" further away from the bottom of the gudgeon base than is the case for the 390 gudgeon. I plan to deal with this by mounting the upper pintle a 3/16" further away from the foward face of the rudder than the lower pintle is mounted to allow the two pintle pins to line up.

Steve

 

 


 

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