Re: [TowerTalk] Fulton 2500 winch single or dual speed?

[Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>]

Then I would defer to you.  While my contribution was to do a little 
background digging - you have direct knowledge.
Now if they only produced those gears in bronze.





73, Rick.



Jon Pearl - W4ABC
www.w4abc.com


On 4/3/2014 5:17 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> On 4/3/2014 1:50 PM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC wrote:
>
> > So there you have it.  By design the self-locking worm gear is very
> > inefficient causing some frictional heating but it's also easy on the
> > muscles and stops where you leave it.  If used properly and under low
> > duty cycles such as that of raising or lowering tower sections, one
> > would think that this winch set would work well.
> > Jon Pearl - W4ABC
> > www.w4abc.com
> When I replaced my K2550 with a KW3000, the amount of effort
> to raise the tower approximately doubled.  The amount of effort
> to lower it was about the same as the K2550.  After a few years
> of use, the KW3000 started to make squealing noises.  That was
> my experience, YMMV.
>
> Rick N6RK

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