For the background to this, please see the Whipstaffs thread in the Footy forum.
It is obvious that the components of the whipstaff must be very rigid if they are not to jam. I am therefore using carbon tube and rod, which has the added advantage that it will not corrode.
However, I am somewhat nervous about the tiller sleeve/whipstaff joint. In principle there is no problem about drilling a 0.7 mm hole through the sleeve on the tiller and the whipstaff extension rod and then cutting a recess (essentially a pair of jaws) in the tiller sleeve to accoomodate the whipstaff extension.
However, my limited experience of carbon pultrusions suggests that when faced with any sort of cutting ar drilling operation, the pulltrusions tend to come apart.
Any advice?
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