?? about compression pipe in a mast!!!

[MarioCoccon]

Hi Iam making the rigging for a Ranger 22 with a little bit oversize mast. I dont saw any kind of compression pipe or sign of it would be someone before. Can I just rigged with them without problem in a small boat like that??. Please let know I would be putting the mast this saturday. Thanks

[Windvang]

Picture of a ranger 22 interior, looks like 2 posts for the mast.

[MarioCoccon]

Hi Windvang and thanks for your help, but I think I describe the theme wrong. Iam talking about the pipe that going inside the mast in some cases between the spreaders bases etc. In the case of the Ranger 22 the tangs are more low than the spreaders bases and I look the holes and I dont saw any kind of pipe to compress the mast. The Ranger 22 use that??? Thanks again

[Robert Gainer]

No they did not have that and most small masts do not use it. If you do want to add one it doesn’t hurt and it is easy to do. We used stainless tube that had an inside diameter just a bit larger then the bolt and cut that to be a length the same as the width inside the mast. Thread that onto a messenger and get it into the area of the hole for the bolt. Then slide a thin rod into the hole and get it into the tube to work it into position. Not hard after you do a few and it’s more work to describe then it is to do.

I have seen some where the hole in the mast is large enough for the compression insert itself and the insert is cut in length to the width of the outside of the mast and placed into position. The only thing that does is keep you from over tightening the bolt and crushing the section a bit. I don’t like that method and use a tube inside the mast instead.
Robert Gainer