[TowerTalk] Need install a BRAKE to protect antenna and rotator...

[jimlux]

On 4/2/16 5:18 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> An old "spur gear would work for this, or rather, a couple of them. Just
> don't disengage when the wind is blowing.
> A trip to the nearest junkyard should turn up one that will fit the
> mast, or can be bored out to fit. Just find a couple that don't have an
> OD too large.
> They don't even have to be the same size, just so the teeth mesh.
>

You could use something like an old rear-end ring/pinion set.  If you 
can find a damaged one, you could probably rig something up, with the 
ring gear around the mast, and the pinion pushed up to "mesh" with it by 
a lever or the rope.

Any sort of "drop a stick in the spokes" (like a bicycle wheel) would work.