[TowerTalk] Brake Winches

[Wayne Kline]

 The common brake winch has a  wheel / drum  attached to the high gear shaft. it positioned out side the main frame.
there is a lever with a steel band that encompasses that  wheel drum.  and when lowering the winch and having  the gear dog lock disengaged ( no click click click)  you use the leaver to control the unspooling of the winch.
some models had a friction material  bonded to this band some where just steel to steel.
My one winch is the steel to steel and I spray it with WD40 b-4 lowering to minimize wear.
 
Wayne W3EA  
 
> From: infomet at embarqmail.com
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:10:39 -0400
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Brake Winches
> 
> Would someone please explain how brake winches work?
> I want to use one as a tilt winch on a 40’ Rohn 25G tower.
> The tower is bracketed to my chimney and the tilt load obviously drops to nil as the tower gets to vertical.
> So what happens when the load gets below the minimum’ value in the spec’s??
> Wilson
> W4BOH
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