Aries original connecting rod end fitting - off the shelf?

[GHA]

Looking for one of these for an original Aries, the Danish company making Aries nowadays doesn't seem to do the con rods.
Anyone know if it's a stock item or if Aries fabricated the fittings themselves?
Ancient but still works great when connected! -

thnx

 

[penberth3]

Looking for one of these for an original Aries, the Danish company making Aries nowadays doesn't seem to do the con rods.
Anyone know if it's a stock item or if Aries fabricated the fittings themselves?
Ancient but still works great when connected! -

thnx

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A standard item. Match the rod thread and the ball diameter, that's all.

 

[GHA]

A standard item. Match the rod thread and the ball diameter, that's all.

Been on google for a while with no luck so far - got any links where to buy one?

 

[srm]

I think you will find the original UK built Aries were made using imperial standards. The current ones are all metric, so there could be slight differences. Spares were available for the old version in the UK from the original designer/builder's family after the design was sold. Sorry, I don't know the current situation as I sold my Aries in 2010 when changing boats.

 

[GHA]

I think you will find the original UK built Aries were made using imperial standards. The current ones are all metric, so there could be slight differences. Spares were available for the old version in the UK from the original designer/builder's family after the design was sold. Sorry, I don't know the current situation as I sold my Aries in 2010 when changing boats.

Was actually more interested in getting some clips to fix this one & have some spares if they were off the shelf items but no luck, Aries might have had them made themselves.
No joy so far, might be quicker just to make something onboard.
Huge benefit to mechanical self steering, bits of string, cable ties & epoxy will very likely fix one enough to steer across an ocean. One capacitor or resistor blows on electronics it's game over.

Though you are allowed both, new home made Pypilot was impeccably behaved for a week on it's first day out on a recent ocean passage
Control bits are so cheap no problem having a box of spares.

This is the Aries steering then at 11:00 Pypilot set to steer to apparent wind. Worked great goose winged dead downwind steering to true wind as well.

But the Aries will stay!!

pypilot - open source marine autopilot

 

[srm]

Huge benefit to mechanical self steering, bits of string, cable ties & epoxy will very likely fix one enough to steer across an ocean. One capacitor or resistor blows on electronics it's game over.

I prefer wind vane steering for the above reasons. My last boat came with an Aries, but I had kept the Monitor from the one before so sold the Aries.
On one trip we sailed for about seven hours at night, goose winged, no pole, and Monitor steering. Not that big a deal apart from the swell on the beam. The head sail collapsed behind the main around half a dozen times but the next swell rolled it back into the wind.

 

[GHA]

I prefer wind vane steering for the above reasons. My last boat came with an Aries, but I had kept the Monitor from the one before so sold the Aries.
On one trip we sailed for about seven hours at night, goose winged, no pole, and Monitor steering. Not that big a deal apart from the swell on the beam. The head sail collapsed behind the main around half a dozen times but the next swell rolled it back into the wind.

Love the Aries but I reckon the Pypilot will take over mostly from now on, seems better steering to the wind at the top of the mast than the wind at the stern. Must use next to no power, the Raspberry Pi running it would be turned on anyway & it only makes tiny adjustments once in a while to keep a very straight course, I kept thinking it had broken cos the ram wouldn't move for like half a minute or more with the gains turned down on an ocean passage. Very clever bit of programming but no auto tuning for the gains, gonna be a good few K miles to really get to grips with all the gain settings.

But the Aries stays for sure!! Even if it can't steer to compass, true wind , gps bearing or Opencpn route.....