Another dim plywood question

[Greenheart]

Thanks Alahol2, they're exactly what I couldn't find...embarrassing when I've been looking at oars from the same people!

I think I'll get 'em and stop messing about. I wonder how those nice shiny brass ones are less expensive than the black plastic ones I bought?

 

[Lakesailor]

They look ideal and a really good price. Just make sure the stem of the rowlock will be a decent fit.

 

[Tranona]

For a real class act look at the gunmetal sets of Rowlock and socket top of p159 of the Force 4 catalogue.

 

[isandell]

Dunno about that, my local timber merchant sells 2x3 and 1x6 by the metre

I doubt that they do sell by metre. More likely by .3 m.

Ian

 

[Greenheart]

For a real class act look at the gunmetal sets of Rowlock and socket top of p159 of the Force 4 catalogue.

They sound great...but I just looked and only found books on p.159...

...then it occurred to me that my F4 catalogue is the 2012 one...

...but it isn't! No...it's 2011...

 

[prv]

I doubt that they do sell by metre. More likely by .3 m.

...or by foot-ish

Yep, but whatever their origin, the lengths quoted were in metric while the sizes were in inches. And being PAR, they weren't even the sizes they said . Obviously I was aware of that when I ordered, but somehow I find it easier to deal with the discrepancy in inches than in millimetres. Bit like BSP thread sizes - if they were in mm I'd expect to find some dimension on them that matched, whereas in inches the idea that it's based on the internal diameter of Victorian iron gas pipe is easier to accept.

Pete

 

[prv]

They sound great...but I just looked and only found books

Presumably the rowlock in question is this one:

http://www.force4.co.uk/10347/Force-4-Gunmetal-Rowlock--inc-Socket-.html

Though there is also a cheaper less flashy galvanised one:

http://www.force4.co.uk/3648/Force-4-Pair-Galvanised-Rowlocks---0-5--dia-x-2-25.html

Just to confuse matters, the galvanised one is sold in pairs but without sockets, while the gunmetal includes the socket but is sold individually. To get two rowlocks and two sockets, the total works out to £25 galvanised or £80 gunmetal.

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

Mother of God, £40 for a gunmetal rowlock? I can't justify that. I'll...I'll just buy an old 2-stroke outboard and hold it over the transom.

...the idea that it's based on the internal diameter of Victorian iron gas pipe is easier to accept.

Really? You may have just persuaded me to learn to think in metric on everything! Can't be so hard...the Osprey's 5.35 meters long, isn't it? Yup. 4 square meter genoa...I could get used to this. When I found a spanner which was 9/16ths the other day, I half-consciously converted it to 14mm, before I could judge whether it suited the purpose (centreboard bolt).

Maybe I'll go all the way and start thinking kph instead of knots?