[quote=benedict]Aaaaaight! Looks like it's the same part that broke on mine. But I think I busted mine worse. Here's a picture of my broken part and the replacement I made:
[img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=87324&g2_serialNumber=4[/img]
I made it out of 6061-T651 aluminum. Nothing special about the alloy, except that it's more ductile than the original casting, and should be able to take more abuse. It's just what I had on hand. I think the slab I started with was 1/4" thick. Except for the hinge part where the pin goes through, which was left full-thickness, I had to machine the rest down enough that the mast base would be able to fit through it and rotate. (I think that wound up being something on the order of 3/16" thick, but this is from memory.)
The biggest mistake I made was in tracing my busted part onto the slab and trying to do most of the work on the bandsaw. The original castings were an awful mishmash shape that really don't need to be duplicated in a new part. You can see some remnants of this in the shape of the part I made. Honestly a much cleaner profile could be made from the get-go, resulting in a nicer part that's just as functional.
This is something just about any machine shop could knock out in an hour or so. If you like I can measure mine and send you a drawing of it. I don't know what a shop would charge for this, but it shouldn't be too much.
Tom
P.S. I've got a bunch of pictures from restoring my P-Cat. Here's the URL to the album: [url]http://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=83700[/url]<!-- editby --><em>Edited by benedict on Nov 14, 2012 - 08:08 AM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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