{"id":153,"date":"2009-02-11T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T10:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tupps.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-02-11T05:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T10:33:58","slug":"new-vs-old-fittings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"New vs Old Fittings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just replaced a number of the older fittings on the boom with new fittings. I am not sure how old these fittings are but a number of the blocks didn&#8217;t turn at all so they needed replacing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154\" title=\"imgp7660-1\" src=\"http:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7660-1-265x300.png\" alt=\"Old fittings top, new fittings bottom\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7660-1-265x300.png 265w, https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7660-1.png 905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old fittings top, new fittings bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ronstan claims that there new fittings are super light. Having digital scales kicking around the garage, I thought it would be worth my while seeing how much difference there is.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155\" title=\"imgp7658-1\" src=\"http:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7658-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"Old fittings, 235 grams. \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7658-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7658-1.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old fittings, 235 grams. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156\" title=\"imgp7659-1\" src=\"http:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7659-1-229x300.png\" alt=\"New fittings 91 grams\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7659-1-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/tupps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imgp7659-1.png 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New fittings 91 grams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new fittings are only 91 grams, so a 144 gram savings. While I didn&#8217;t do this for the weight saving, it is nice to know that the new fittings are a fair bit lighter. The new fittings save there weight in two ways, one they are made out mainly a light weight plastic instead of metal, and there is much lighter weight ways of securing the fittings to the boat. In the case of the main blocks a rope is used, and in the case of the micro blocks (9 grams each) they are attached via spectra running through the centre of the block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just replaced a number of the older fittings on the boom with new fittings. I am not sure how old these fittings are but a number of the blocks didn&#8217;t turn at all so they needed replacing.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Ronstan claims that there new fittings are super light. Having digital scales kicking around the garage, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tupps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}