On 08/27/13 09:42 pm, caraj@cox.net wrote:
I refurbished my EZ way tower with a new beam, rotor, paint job and winch.
Everything is electrically and mechanically fine except the winch.
It has no click to resist the tower coming down. It appears the brake is not
being engaged.
Either that or the youngster I had helping me oiled the brake along with the
other gears
I asked him to oil. Suspect it's the lack of brake engagement. I removed the
outer and first
inner handle shaft nuts to reposition the handle. These have been returned to
their original positions.
Also tried to remove the inner most nut but no movement The questions I have
are:
1.Why there is no clicking to preventing the raised tower from lowering itself?
The ratchet gear clicks when I manually turn it. How do I correct it?
2. How does one differ winding the tower up from lowering it? The old EZ
way winch was pushed
in to wind it down avoiding the resistive teeth. The current Fulton 1550
brake winch is being wound
counter clock wise to lift the tower. The tower rises smoothly and
lowers smoothly without a block of wood.
This is my first brake winch.
3. How does one remove/get to the Fulton 1550 brake mechanism? The inner most
nut/hexagonal
surface doesn't rotate with a wrench. Fulton has a brake kit. Instruction on
how to get to the brake assembly
would be helpful.
A few years ago I replaced my HDX-555's K1550 by a K2550, and the tower
has hardly ever been lowered and raised again anyway (this is the
tilt-over winch), but let me see if I can recall how things work(ed).
The clicking is only when the cable is being wound in. When you are
letting the cable out, the pawl is engaged and the brake is permanently
engaged, so that you have to wind the handle against the friction of the
brake. This has the advantage that if you were to let go of the handle
for any reason the brake is still preventing the tower from crashing to
the ground. From your description of the EZ way winch, I can imagine
that if the tower were to start descending rapidly, the moving part
might be rotating too rapidly for it to re-engage with the part with the
brake.
I think there may be maintenance/overhaul instructions for the Fulton
winches on the Web.
73
Alan NV8A
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