Expidia
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Don't find out the hard way like I did . . .
After my two rollers arrived I mounted them and lost one over the next week thru theft or having a pal nut pop off.
So I ordered another one from iboats and went to a welder to have him spot weld the pal nuts on.
When the boat was in the water I could now see the rollers didn't match. I noticed the two rollers were different colors. And I had already had them welded in place
One was a bright orange and the other was a cloudy looking yellow one. I thought the older yellow one started out as orange and turned color. But a closer look showed they were from two different manaufactuers. So iboats sent me out another matching orange one.
I dropped it off to the welder with the new rod and the mounting plate.
So my heads up tip is these self centering rollers can only go on in one direction to work correctly. Who would stop to think about which way the grooves are spinning?
You don't think about figuring out the directions of the groves if you don't know they should only go on in one direction. They really should have a sticky on them showing the correct position before mounting because pal nuts don't give you a second chance.
All they have is a barely visible arrow pressed into the middle of the roller showing to mount it with the arrow pointing towards the vehicle.
Luckily the other one that was already welded in place was going in the right direction. But the off color one was mounted by me backwards.
I was wondering why the bow always kicked to the right or left as I was cranking boat up when it hit the front roller.
Who knew? No directions . . . and I never thought about which way the direction of groves that are cut into the roller were screwing
So look closely for that directional arrow before you bang on those pal nuts on a new self centering roller.
After my two rollers arrived I mounted them and lost one over the next week thru theft or having a pal nut pop off.
So I ordered another one from iboats and went to a welder to have him spot weld the pal nuts on.
When the boat was in the water I could now see the rollers didn't match. I noticed the two rollers were different colors. And I had already had them welded in place
One was a bright orange and the other was a cloudy looking yellow one. I thought the older yellow one started out as orange and turned color. But a closer look showed they were from two different manaufactuers. So iboats sent me out another matching orange one.
I dropped it off to the welder with the new rod and the mounting plate.
So my heads up tip is these self centering rollers can only go on in one direction to work correctly. Who would stop to think about which way the grooves are spinning?
You don't think about figuring out the directions of the groves if you don't know they should only go on in one direction. They really should have a sticky on them showing the correct position before mounting because pal nuts don't give you a second chance.
All they have is a barely visible arrow pressed into the middle of the roller showing to mount it with the arrow pointing towards the vehicle.
Luckily the other one that was already welded in place was going in the right direction. But the off color one was mounted by me backwards.
I was wondering why the bow always kicked to the right or left as I was cranking boat up when it hit the front roller.
Who knew? No directions . . . and I never thought about which way the direction of groves that are cut into the roller were screwing
So look closely for that directional arrow before you bang on those pal nuts on a new self centering roller.
