trailer roller setup question.

[wags on the water]

Bruce, not as sucessful as we'd hoped. Although great time with great company.

[tropicrows]

Bigjimg,

Lucky Phill said to remove the grease from the keel rollers ??.
If they were alloy keel rollers running on metal shafts I would have greased them, but as they are placstic (red ones) running on stainless steel shafts I am not sure if grease is needed, or if it would make the problem worse (maybe I do need grease)
The trailer is my design, as the boat hull is old I was not sure that it could be just supported on the hull sides. So it was designed that keel rollers would take the weight and the side wobble rollers would just support the hull. I think however that with the weight of the boat and the brass keel strip it’s digging into the keel rollers ?????

[top_deck69]

I have just gone though the fun of setting up keel rollers.

The best thing I found, though takes a fair amount of effort, is to sleeve all of your rollers with stainless steel tubing.

The best way to get the right size is take one of your spindles into a stainless place, and find a tube that the spindle just fits into. I ended up with one that’s 1.2mm wall. You then need to press these into your rollers.

I tried to avoid having to core out the rollers larger as I wanted a very "snug" fit.

If you know someone with a hydraulic press your laughing. You can use a threaded rod and some nuts through the centre its not usually that hard as there is not too much pressure.

What I did was leave the tube lengths uncut, get the end of the tube in and then belt the roller on the ground till the tube was flush and then hack sawed of the end.

You then just grease up the shafts and and hold onto your boat as it just slips straight off.

if your in Brisbane / goldy there’s a place called Tube sales at Yatala that is cheap and have every size of stainless tube you can think of on hand and sell by the metre to the public.

Let me know if the instructions don't make too much sense. You can buy the rollers pre-sleeved from a place in WA but they were $40 each.

Cheers
Ben

[tropicrows]

Sounds like a plan, Ben. I will give that a go, your instructions are fine.

Wags why didn't you come up with that solution or for that matter why didn't I.

Thanks Ben.

[bigjimg]

Bruce he said remove and grease the spindle not the other way round.Mine stuck like shit to a blanket when the boat leaned on them greasing them with lano grease fixed it straight away no more squeaking,shoving and throttling to get her to move.Jim

[tropicrows]

Your right bigjimg, he did say that.
Think I will use Ben's idea as well, and sleeve the rollers.

[TimiBoy]

Wags why didn't you come up with that solution or for that matter why didn't I.

Because you, and Wags, are both twits.

:cool:

Cheers,

Tim

[wags on the water]

Because you, and Wags, are both twits.

:cool:

Cheers,

Tim

Looks like you ARE going to get my bill for my efforts in the last few days buddy. A carton of Coronas won't cut it now mate....

[wags on the water]

Sounds like a plan, Ben. I will give that a go, your instructions are fine.

Wags why didn't you come up with that solution or for that matter why didn't I.

Thanks Ben.

Bruce I was put to work on SOMEONE'S trailer. Sorry I couldn't help. Next time though I won't be so busy.

[cormorant]

stainless pins, polly rollers I wouldn't use grease as it just goes gummy. Have used silicon spray and just spray before launch and before retieve. The silicon is in a solvent that drys fast and leaves a silicon coat on pins and rollers. You don't need much and with the "wd40" style applicator tube it is non messy and doesn't attract sand or dust.

[tropicrows]

Update,

I sleeved the keel rollers with stainless steel tubing, and raised the keel rollers by 3 mm just to take a bit more wait. Headed down to ramp Saturday morning, backed the old girl in, got in the boat, released the clip and off she glided.
Bloody perfect, thanks everyone one for your input.

[wags on the water]

Glad to hear it has all worked out Bruce.

[finga]

Now you can drop the lot of the rollers by 3mm seeing you've already raised the side rollers by 4 (as per first post).
Makes a big difference in your temper doesn't it having a boat that glides on and off??

I use a Nikko or similar to make where the roller bracket stems need to be just in case they drop. It's an easy job to raise them to the mark instead of going through the rigmarole again when they drop.