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choppers
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Yak maintenance due

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IV given my prowler a fair bit of S#!^ since I got it, decent gouges, seat straps are fked, sounder needs regooping I think, and a bent rudder.
I think I should take the rudder off and bash it flat with a Mallet, just wanting a do or do not from the brainstrust on the rudder
"Ye old town" Yak captures - gummy (116) salmon (32) flatty (35) yakka (28) silver trev (25) couta (38) plus all the garbage fish

Prowler victims - squid (30cm) Gar (36) Snapper (80 :yahoo: ) kgw (39)
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Re: Yak maintenance due

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Doesn't matter much if bent in same plane, only really a problem if twisted.
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Keith it doesn't seem to affect handling, just cosmetic I guess, it's something I look at and shake my head a little and was wondering if I should try or will I risk it breaking
"Ye old town" Yak captures - gummy (116) salmon (32) flatty (35) yakka (28) silver trev (25) couta (38) plus all the garbage fish

Prowler victims - squid (30cm) Gar (36) Snapper (80 :yahoo: ) kgw (39)
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careful application of heat from a heat gun may help, it is formed with heat, just a guess.
Friend of mine is a plastics engineer when he gets back from OS I will ask him if I remember.
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Guessing the yak doc will have the best info on this, now you mention plastic. I presumed the rudder was a different material, not sure what I thought thou :lol:
"Ye old town" Yak captures - gummy (116) salmon (32) flatty (35) yakka (28) silver trev (25) couta (38) plus all the garbage fish

Prowler victims - squid (30cm) Gar (36) Snapper (80 :yahoo: ) kgw (39)
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