Forestay toggle

[afterpegassus]

Any comments on this toggle?
To my untutored eye it looks like a bodge.

 

[Poignard]

Perhaps I'm being a fusspot but I don't like the way the lower stirrup has been squeezed to narrow it. This might have caused cracks.

And I don't like the way that not all of the blue plastic in the nyloc nut is in use.

 

[KevinV]

Perhaps I'm being a fusspot but I don't like the way the lower stirrup has been squeezed to narrow it. This might have caused cracks.

And I don't like the way that not all of the blue plastic in the nyloc nut is in use.

^^What he said ^^ - plus I'd want a longer clevis pin so a washer can go behind the split pin.

 

[geem]

You have two forks onto a pin. The lower fork should be any eye. It's a bodge

 

[MikeBz]

^^What he said ^^ - plus I'd want a longer clevis pin so a washer can go behind the split pin.

Out of curiosity (well, and ignorance), what is the point of adding a washer in that situation?

 

[KevinV]

Out of curiosity (well, and ignorance), what is the point of adding a washer in that situation?

I always add a thin one to ease rotation of the clevis pin and to prevent the split pin (or tools) scratching and therefore rusting the (usually expensive) fitting