Bow rudders R&D
Feeling a bit miffed with a UK electronics supplier (who shall be nameless). I had purchased the item pictured in my last post, and was surprised the delivery ETA was longer than expected. Turned out it was coming by UPS from their shop in Germany. It arrived today, but only the plastic belt. Called the UK supplier. They said I had to order the belt wheels separately despite the photo on their web site, and she was not too sure which one was which.
You have to resourceful in R&D. I went onto the German site of the same name and found a PDF data sheet, in German of course. Good old Google translate! I managed to figure out what the column headings meant. Most of the smaller gear wheels had no fixing screws. This could be a challenging fit in the space having to use larger gears.
I tried to order the bits straight from Germany, made sense and should be quicker. Wrong. When it cam to entering my address I found that amongst the 150 odd countries to pick from there was no UK, United Kingdom, Britain, or England etc. I was almost tempted to pick Pitcairn Island.
Writing down the full part numbers I went back to the UK site, which failed to recognise my e-address and password as an existing customer, then tried to throw me out as ‘some details’ appeared to match an existing customer.
Finally I placed the order for the ‘missing’ toothed gear wheels. 5 to 7 days delivery. Even then I will not know if it will do the job until I try to fit it all together.