paddymac said...
It'd tricky to get the cut perpendicular. I used a mitre box to take care of one axis but you need to raise the tip slightly so the mast's centreline is horizontal.
Nooooo
Easy peeezy
get an L-shaped bit of anything stiff and sticky tape a felt tip pen or pencil to the end so you have a big square U shape, with one side of the big U being the pen.
Then place one end of the big square U on the bottom of the mast and the roll it around the mast to it makes a line around the circumference at a constant distance from bottom - if that make sense?
Or even better roll a pipe cutter around it so it juuust scores the surface (not too tight as it would crush / crack the carbon.
Or put a piece of wire bent into an L shape (with the end sharpened) in the vice horizontally. Then butt the mast base up against the vice with the sharpened wire touching it and roll the mast to score a line.
Then cut thru with a hackasaw but keep rotating the mast so you follow the line perfectly.
but it has a bit of a crack right at the base & its been suggested I cut it off? Is that straightforward or anything I need to know?
sboardcrazy said a bit of a crack
