Reply To: Cable and pulley steering – who to ?

[nj-boatbuilder57]

Good video in post #2.  I would deviate from that a smidge, as I don’t like his use of turnbuckles.  But you do need tension on the springs, so how to do that?

I cut little wooden wedges that insert into the “extended” (i.e. under full tension) springs.  This way I can cable everything up “hand taught”, which gets the cable as tight as I can.  Then, when the cables are all clamped up, the wooden wedges are removed and the cables are tight.