Selden spars (online)

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Seems lots of riggers I contact via email or their websites struggle.

After having dropped one (which flew away) I need some washers seleden part number 164-028.

Any suggestions of someone reliable for seleden spares who can supply these (mail order, they will easily fit in an envelope)?
 
oldvarnish said:
Allspars, Plymouth
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+1 - they were really good when I needed some parts after suffereing some damage on a heavy weather passage. They were the third selden riggers I called, the previous two in the Solent were either not that interested or quoting incredibly high prices and long delivery times. Allspars had me the new bits to my address in 10 days and quoted the best prices.
 
I once wanted a complete new mast, boom and rig, and found Selden to be the most professionally obstructive and unhelpful outfit I have ever come across; they wanted me to quote the loads on each standing rigging wire for my long out of production 22' boat...

I said ' I thought that was YOUR job ! '

Go elsewhere if you can...:rolleyes:
 
Perhaps they did not fancy putting a Selden rig on an Anderson 22???
Can't imagine there would be much profit in it after they had done all your design work and as everyone here knows you can be a bit hard to please.
 
Quandary said:
Perhaps they did not fancy putting a Selden rig on an Anderson 22???
Can't imagine there would be much profit in it after they had done all your design work and as everyone here knows you can be a bit hard to please.
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? I'd have been quite easy to please if they'd been willing to supply a decent new rig for me, and it would have been at the very least £4,000 to them - utter gits !

The money which Selden would have got went elsewhere to better riggers, and I remain extremely happy that it did so !

What ' design work ' would you do for a major supposedly professional rigger outfit, would YOU calcualte the wire loads for them ?!

I probably was unlucky to get a right t------r, but I tried sevaral times ! :rolleyes:
 
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Seajet said:
? I'd have been quite easy to please if they'd been willing to supply a decent new rig for me, and it would have been at the very least £4,000 to them - utter gits !
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Here is how I think it works; you want to build a kitchen extension on to your house, you do not go to Wimpey?
You want to go racing in a Formula ford, you go to Crossle not Ford in Dagenham.
Selden make a large range of spars and components but if you want a rig for a one off you go to MRS or similar, they will probably use Selden extrusions to build it but do not have to. Selden themselves make up rigging kits for most production builders and keep spares in stock for about 30 years but you have to order those spares through their specialist agents. An example, the Sigma 33 OOd class are having to license a new spar because 35 years after production started Selden are no longer prepared to extrude the old Kemp section, but they are offering an equivalent.
Its horses for courses.
 
Quandary,

I know what you mean, but the Selden rep's at the Boat Show made out they were happy to supply a rig to me; if they had told me they couldn't be arsed it would have saved me a bit of time !

As it was, they still seemed to be taking my enquiry seriously later, it was only when faced with idiotic forms to fill in designing the whole thing for them that I realised they were a waste of time.
 
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