sailingdeacon
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Proper way to mount winches?
I would appreciate confirmation or disagreement with the following problem on my Barient 27 winch.
After the bearings in my 1987 E34, Barient 27 winch failed, I contacted Florida rigging. They were extremely helpful and supplied steel bearings instead of the delrin (they are slightly wider so the spacer will have to be ground down.)
After reviewing the mounting of the winches, they said my port jib sheet winch had been installed incorrectly and would cause problems under very heavy loads. They said these winches (others too I wonder??) must be positioned so that the outboard gear (the one that pertrudes) must be in the same positon as to where the genoa sheet first makes contact with the drum. We determined that both starboard and port winch had been installed exactly alike so that looking down on them, the outboard gears were to the outside of the cockpit. This would mean that the starboard winch was installed correctly (the sheet comes to the drum on the outside), but the port winch was not (since the sheet comes to the inboard side of the drum -the gear was 180 degrees away from the point where sheet makes contact.
I have the instructions for Barient selftailiong 17, 21, 24 and 27. Only the 17 mounting instructions make this point. The instructions for the 17 says "Note: Ensure that the winch is mounted to the deck so as the drum drive pinion (4) is as near as possible to where the line first makes contact with the drum Fig.2."
I should add that the "shaft" over which the bearings fit has a small groove worn just above the top of the original delrin bearings one one side. So this tells me the forces are not balanced.
Do I really need the 27 mounted the same way? I suspect so since only those port bearings fail. Comments please....
To fix this problem requires that I unbolt the winch, fill in holes and redrill any needed. (This attachment part of the winch has holes which are not equally spaced around the mount)
I would appreciate confirmation or disagreement with the following problem on my Barient 27 winch.
After the bearings in my 1987 E34, Barient 27 winch failed, I contacted Florida rigging. They were extremely helpful and supplied steel bearings instead of the delrin (they are slightly wider so the spacer will have to be ground down.)
After reviewing the mounting of the winches, they said my port jib sheet winch had been installed incorrectly and would cause problems under very heavy loads. They said these winches (others too I wonder??) must be positioned so that the outboard gear (the one that pertrudes) must be in the same positon as to where the genoa sheet first makes contact with the drum. We determined that both starboard and port winch had been installed exactly alike so that looking down on them, the outboard gears were to the outside of the cockpit. This would mean that the starboard winch was installed correctly (the sheet comes to the drum on the outside), but the port winch was not (since the sheet comes to the inboard side of the drum -the gear was 180 degrees away from the point where sheet makes contact.
I have the instructions for Barient selftailiong 17, 21, 24 and 27. Only the 17 mounting instructions make this point. The instructions for the 17 says "Note: Ensure that the winch is mounted to the deck so as the drum drive pinion (4) is as near as possible to where the line first makes contact with the drum Fig.2."
I should add that the "shaft" over which the bearings fit has a small groove worn just above the top of the original delrin bearings one one side. So this tells me the forces are not balanced.
Do I really need the 27 mounted the same way? I suspect so since only those port bearings fail. Comments please....
To fix this problem requires that I unbolt the winch, fill in holes and redrill any needed. (This attachment part of the winch has holes which are not equally spaced around the mount)
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