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Success!! The winch is disassembled! All, especially Christian and Tom - Success!!! A few deliberate but careful wacks on the stripper arm with a wooden mallet freed it up and allowed me to remove the drum! Any day you don't have to cut off nuts is a good day! I still don't know what the...

@ Bruce and Mark: I spent some time running a point of an awl around that surface and it has no edges, grooves, notches etc. It actually seems to be the shoulder of the main pin through the winch. The area that Bruce highlighted (also Christian) is just old dirt :-( There is no locking plate...

Thanks Christian. I was expecting to see a circlip too, but there is none. Likewise, no screw in the winch socket. It had not occurred to me that the ST arm itself may be the way in... I'll check that out when I am back at the boat later this week. This winch is not to be refitted to the...

Do you recognize thsi winch? How to disassemble? After a couple of weeks away from the boat, I have had a closer look at my Barient ST 2 speed winch. The Barient I have has no size markings and is definitely a max diameter of 5" and approx 6.5" tall. I have not found anything like it...

Mark, Great info. Thank you! Steve

Hi Bob and Ken Thanks for the info. The dimensions of the 21 suggest it is taller than my one and the photos I have seen show the lowest section of the drum (under the indent that runs around the base) is about 1.5" whereas mine is 1.0" The 17 is much closer, but single speed. I have not...

Is this a Barient 17 ST - two speed winch?? My Ericson 35.3 has a Barient winch on the cabin top but it does not have a number on the drum. It is self-tailing and two speed. The dimensions are a max diam of 5", height of 6.5". I will add a photo of it. I want to find a second one of...

I have an Ericson 35.3 with a flat lazarette cover at the helm. I would prefer a humped helm seat. I know this is an acquired taste - not everyone likes them. Does anyone have one for sale, or would like to swap a humped one for a flat one?? I don't have dimensions to hand but will check...

Well, I finally got back to the boat to see what is what and I found out something interesting! The four screws turned out to be two perpendicular adjustment rods for the compass compensation. Thankfully, I figured this out before drilling them out! I had noticed that there is a sprung "pin"...

Christian - thanks for the welcome! Would you believe of my gazillions of photos of bits of the boat, I don't have a clear shot of the helm and compass! However, your description fits what I saw yesterday - four very small (#4?) screws at the base of the compass. They were frozen so I did not...

Hello Max, I recently bought a 35 Mk III and need to figure out how to get the compass off the pedestal so I can access the instrument cables as I am rewiring... Any information on this would be great! I have sent you a PM with my email for the PDF Thanks! Steve