Freedom 25: winged mast upper bearing service

Here are a few pics of my recent service of the upper teflon bearing on my rotating wing mast for my Freedom 25. as you can see from the wear inside the tube that the previous owner never serviced this bearing, and had been using the boat with out an material.

This shows the inside of the F25 mast tube, the slightly darker section is an indent which is 2 inches wide and is designed to take a Teflon or similar plastic. when combined with the stainless ring on the mast work as a bearing.

here you can see the plastic insert I purchased. After doing some research I found that their is a number of plastics which will work just as well as Teflon but at less then half the price.

*note: I test fit strip and messured 3 inches of overlap and marked with a green marker. pic below

pic of the test fit, you can see the over lap of the strip. the diagonal line is were I am going to cut, the x is the side I will cut off so the 2 ends will fit nicely together.

here you can see the trimmed ends of the strip. I used a jig saw which cut very cleanly with no burs.

Finished: unfortunately because of material nothing will stick to it so you need to use the tension of the material to hold it in place.