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[quote=kuehn]I lost one of the plastic rollers on the traveler car last summer in heavy wind on lake Huron.  It pretty much exploded and the traveler got real ornery.  I had good sailing days ahead and needed to rig some sort of fix (without removing the traveler car).  I finally settled on a length of 12 gauge solid copper wire removed from a scrap of Romex.  Using two pairs of needle nose pliers I was able to wind the copper wire several times around the vacated axle forming a roller from the copper wire.  It works perfectly.  I works better than the traveler worked when I bought the boat used 6 years ago, as it managed to take up some of the slack from the collective roller wear.  When I found that Murray's wants $80.00 for a new traveler I thought about the hassle of drilling out the end cap rivets and redoing them and decided to leave the copper wire roller in place.  The copper is softer than the aluminum traveler track, so It isn't wearing the track.  I also grabbed a candle and waxed the track thoroughly.  Works better now than before the plastic roller went AWOL.[/quote]

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