2019 Trust bar swivel

[Si_B]

I think this is called the “roto” head. How easily should this spin? Always wash my bar after every session but noticed on the water today it was really tight, to be honest it was my first day trying back rolls etc, so I’ve never really had to unwind my centre lines much before.

Simon

[Blackened]

Very easily. Probably just some sand you need to evacuate. Since I rotate or loop all the time, I notice fairly quickly when there's something in there. Usually it sorts itself with enough crashing

[Si_B]

Will just crash some more then !! Going to take out depower rope and have a look, like you say maybe something has got jammed in there.

Simon

[purdyd]

I think this is called the “roto” head. How easily should this spin? Always wash my bar after every session but noticed on the water today it was really tight, to be honest it was my first day trying back rolls etc, so I’ve never really had to unwind my centre lines much before.

Simon

There are two spots that the iron heart rotates on.

The exposed ceramic bearing on the bottom and crude metal on plastic spot inside the square at the top where the lines attach.



It is like the latter that gets stiff. Some sand can get into it, usually just cleaning it out with water will free it up or on occasion a squirt of dry lubricant, you can remove a couple of grub screws to get inside it.

It should rotate very freely.

Good luck!

[Si_B]

It’s the square plastic part which has gone stiff. Spent some time running water over it and rotating and it seems better. Dropped the upper part out to look inside but you can’t really see anything. Maybe I just need to focus a bit more on that part when washing the bar, as I say I only noticed on the last session as after doing rotations I needed to untwist the centre lines and was surprised at how stiff it was.

Cheers
Simon