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A loose collection of parts migrating together... Looks like a Winch!

I set the frame and cross-wind tube together. After installing the heavy-rails and fairlead assemblies I placed the drums in the rough...

The reciprocating motion needed for cross-winding the rope onto the drums is created by cam follower bearings running on a barrel cam. ...

The main frame was fabricated at a local welding shop... Kinda looks like it was supposed to.

The Electric Glider Winch is a 2-drum winch which needs a way to select one drum or the other - one doesn't launch two gliders at once. ...

Compared to other winches, this is a tiny frame at just L 62.14", W 41.5", & H 20.5" but there still some careful welding to do. Most...

This is the complete fairlead assembly Henry is working on now. It is contained in a 14" square steel tube. This protects the workings...

This is what Henry is working on. There are two fairleads like this - one for each drum. Each fairlead has two pulley blocks which...

These steel blocks carry the "wrist" or caster bearings for the pulley blocks. They get welded into the ends of the 5" square tube in...

This is one of the fairlead weldments.which carry the castering pulley blocks, guillotine and combinatin bearings for the traversing system.

There's still a lot of work to do on these little things. The strain gauges and amplifier/signal conditioners have to be installed inside.