[TowerTalk] Clickless Fulton 1550 KWinch.

[caraj at cox.net]

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.

		Thanks for your help,
		John, K2SFS caraj at cox.net