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Re: [TowerTalk] Regarding Worm Gear Drive Winches

To: "Dennis Vernacchia" <n6ki73@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Regarding Worm Gear Drive Winches
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
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Dennis Vernacchia wrote:
> Well, I got to thinking that teh Molwaukee Hoel Hog at 300 RPM would be
> too  fast for the

Right.

> I come up with 90 to 120 RPM - So the questions is
>

> have my doubts that I will even get a call back. The tech guy I talked to
> didn't even have a clue

The tech guy at Milwaukee volunteered that my drill puts out
90 foot pounds.  What he didn't say is that this is for a minute
or two at a time.

> I plan to use a Fukton KW3000 worm gear type winch that ha s gear ratio of
> 51.1 to one
> which is way too slow to crank by hand

I guess I'm confused here.  Above you said you wanted 90 to 120
RPM.  That is hand crank speed or nearly so.  Even at that speed,
the winch gets hot under heavy load.

>>
> 73, Dennis N6KI

Rick N6RK


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