spinnaker pole track

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The pole car jams on the track I think because it is metal on metal and it is dry. I wonder whether lubrication would aid the process. Don't want to put grease up there so tempted to try candle wax on the track. Any better ideas?
 
what make of track is it? I ask because mine jammed when I got the boat and the track is kemp just after they were taken over by selden. I discovered that there were supposed to be two plastic sliders inside the shoe to avoid metal to metal contact. then I discovered why they werent there - they simply werent up to the job and they arent cheap - at least two lots per season.
 
ah, interesting. It's a Selden mast 1996 vintage. I'll have a look in the shoe to see if there is evidence of missing sliders.

Thanks

Rob
 
same year exactly. the bits you want are available from allspars part no SE530-705. A couple will cost you about £5 but from my experience I would buy half a dozen assuming you race your boat and use the spinny.
 
I have a tub of vaseline which I use for battery terminals, hatch sliders,piston hanks,main luff sliders,and now you mention it,pole slider track,and anything else where oil and grease isnt a good idea.Probably not the right thing but it seems to work
 
There are plastic sliders but they're knackred by the looks of it, new needed, thanks for the guidance. I might try the PTFE as well.

Thanks all

Rob
 
I was replacing the plastic sliders on my Selden track car a couple of times a season. I had a good look and a think about it and concluded that they were breaking when the car hit the end stops driven by the weight of the pole, the impact was breaking the ends off the liners which then fell out. I drilled the track just above the end stop, screwed in a sturdy dome head self tapper in the centre, clear of the sliders, with a 7mm. scrap of thick plastic tubing around it to ease the impact. Seems to have solved the problem. (so far)
I had tried the car without the sliders lubricated with PTFE, it rattled about (my pole stows in front of the mast with the car pulled up to the top of the track) and still jammed.
 
Quandary said:
I was replacing the plastic sliders on my Selden track car a couple of times a season. I had a good look and a think about it and concluded that they were breaking when the car hit the end stops driven by the weight of the pole, the impact was breaking the ends off the liners which then fell out. I drilled the track just above the end stop, screwed in a sturdy dome head self tapper in the centre, clear of the sliders, with a 7mm. scrap of thick plastic tubing around it to ease the impact. Seems to have solved the problem. (so far)
I had tried the car without the sliders lubricated with PTFE, it rattled about (my pole stows in front of the mast with the car pulled up to the top of the track) and still jammed.
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Did exactly the same thing and had breat hopes for this season. Didnt work. I think that the years of being used by my predecessor without the sliders chewed up the edges of the track and it now in turn chews up the plastics
 
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