[TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

[Eugene Jensen]

I personal have no working knowledge of the W3000 worm gear but my only
concern is it design be driven by a drill motor. I use a Thern worm gear
4WM2 motor driven and it is designed for this kind of service. I many years
ago on a small Hygain Tower blew the gears set driving it with a drill. I
was lucky that it happen at the start. I use mine on the tilt over on a
HDX555.  I have used a Hole Hog to drive it. It has two speeds and yes you
need both hands on it with the handle or you can get twisted real quick.
That why I installed a gear motor on it with that has it own brake.  Just
something to think about . 73 Gene AA4VX 

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Patrick Greenlee
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Rich Hallman - N7TR; 'John Thompson'; TowerTalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

Two things:

1. Those Milwaukee drills don't stop turning when whatever you are spinning
in their chuck does stop and will wrap you up and jam you into the trigger
so you can't let go and can hurt you.  I have 2 Milwaukee drills that can do
that to me and I'm fairly robust at 6'2" 215 lbs. I don't loan them for fear
of getting someone hurt. Good choice of tools but be careful.

2.  Check the model number of your HF drill.  There is a recall/exchange on
model 96526 due to overheating/burn danger/fire danger due to overheating of
the trigger switch assy.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Hallman - N7TR
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 1:31 PM
To: 'John Thompson' ; TowerTalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

With my HDX-689 I just upgraded the W2550 winch to the W3000 worm gear. 
N6RK has this as well on his HDX-5106.  I bought a Harbor Freight High
Torque Right Angle drill that was on sale I think for $50 last month.  With
the weather out here, I haven't been able to test the new set-up.  Long term
Im going to get the Milwaukee Super Hawg.  But I wanted to at least test
this set-up with the W3000 winch with a less expensive drill first before
investing in the better quality drill.

If all goes well, this will be my setup for the HDX-589 and 572 towers I
have here.

Rich N7TR
ex KI3V, N3AMK, WB3JOV
www.n7tr.com<http://www.n7tr.com>
http://www.qrz.com/db/N7TR
Telnet: dxc.n7tr.com N7TR DXCluster

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 11:23 AM
To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

Ivan,

I have used that mod (N6RK) and it works very well.  Recently I changed my
winches to the 2550 model and now I think I could handle the tower with a
battery powered drill in place of the large Milwaukee.  Those winches
changed the gear ratio from 5:1 to 16:1 and its fantastic.

73,

John
KB9TPG

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bryan
Swadener
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 12:25 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com<mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>;
WK1W at ivanshapiro.com<mailto:WK1W at ivanshapiro.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

Hi Ivan,

Rick N6RK (http://www.n6rk.com/) shows a simple & inexpensive way to modify
manual winches to accept a slow speed (high torque) right-angle drill.  I
use a Milwaukee Super Hawg that works great on my TX-472.  I found it as a
refurb unit on eBay... about $250.

vy 73,
Bryan WA7PRC

Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:24:10 -0500
From: WK1W Ivan Shapiro
Subject: [TowerTalk] Motorized Winch for US Tower

Sure would like to put a motor on the winch of my US Tower. I have the
raising (and lowering) heavy fixture, which I have left in place because
there is always more work to do.
So.if any respondent to this reflector has done this and would share
information there are two hams in New England who would be most appreciative
of any pointers; motor spec/part #/source etc; gearing info; mounting
solution etc.
Mine is US Tower HDX 589MDPL.  My friend's tower is US Tower HDX 5106 MDPL.
Thanks.
73
Ivan Shapiro WK1W
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