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JD,
A scenario I witnessed a few months back..... a friend with his brand new winch, decided to "test" it out on a reasonable incline, y'know... to load it up properly. With about half the cable out, it kinda jerked.... so he lowered himself back down and then rolled the cable out to find it wasn't anchored on the drum.... at all!!!

(It is now!)

He was lucky he was playing and not in "real life" as he could have been in a bit of strife! I promised myself there and then that I would "test" it out as he did when I get mine.

Hi Brian,
Lucky he did'nt hurt himself,and also break the drum as I was told this is how they break,I had to rotate the clutch on mine so it would fit..but i've been told this is not uncommon,I've had mine all the way out and its conected LOL,yeah your suposed to pre tension the cable to "set " it on the drum properly and not damage the cable by crushing the under layers I'm going to hook up my trailer weighted up 500kgs set it this way hopefully under controlled circumstances..at least this is the plan...something I've been thinking about do you a circut breaker inline to power source??.
JD

Not sure about the breaker JD.... food for thought though... an auto sparkie will know for sure, I would think it needs one, but geeeeeze, you wouldn't want it tripping when you're on the side of a mountain would ya???

Truckster will know!!!!

Definatly not,but its a very thick cable strait up to the battery if it shorts the whole system will melt!...maybe the safty in the controler ???Idont know?
JD

How rude ! Membership is current! Check your bank.
JD

Brian,

I'll say up front I sell these winches, so take what I say with a grain of salt....

I have seen how the cables are rolled onto the drum - the bolt is put into the little eye-let, the drum is rotated, and the cable is wound on. It is not wound on tightly in the factory, hence the reason pretensioning is required.

You will probably find the cable had a bit of spring in it, and actually snapped the head off the bolt as it sprung back. These bolts are not real strong, as you are normally required to have a few layers of cable on the drum before operation. The drum itself takes the force, not the bolt. It is kinda like if you wrapped a rope around a tree a few times, then pulled on the rope. The other, disconnected end has absolutely no force on it.

JD, I'll be very interested to see how you go with yours. It is one thing for the importer to try them out and tell you how good they are, but quite another for someone that has paid their hard earned for one.

Cheers,

Chump

JD
I'm either;
A) A bit thick
or
B) the wrong side of 6 tinnies.....

but I don't get the "Membership is current" bit.......

(I suspect it is "B")

;-))

craig thanks for the info what do you mean by rotate the clutch end did this make it fit or did you cut the bar out also what brand was your winch
joe