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From: Robert Gainer (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 15:40:22 EDT
I was in the boat repair business for over 15 years and never heard of this.
The only trouble that I have seen in Barient is when people don’t grease
them and the mechanism jammed so the winch will jump back a notch. Even then
I never saw one run backwards more then one click. I have seen some old
Asian-built boats that had winches that were copies of old style American
winches and they failed. Now that I think of it Merriman-Holbrook made some
winches with a sintered bronze base and they would explode with parts
shooting out all over the place. They stopped making them 30 years ago after
a very short production run. I don’t think you can find any of them now, and
they were for small boats only.
Bob
>From: Courtney Thomas <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [world-cruising] [Fwd: "exploding" winches !]
>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:28:38 -0500
>
>I recently heard of some Barient winches allegedly exploding.
>
>Does anyone have any knowledge of such catastrophic failure occurring
>"particularly/especially" in Barient or any other type winch.
>
>I realize that any winch can be put under sufficient load so as to fail,
>but is there some known predisposition of Barient winches to
>inexplicably or unreasonably.....fail ?
>
>Appreciatively,
>Courtney Thomas
>--
>s/v Mutiny
>Rhodes Bounty II
>lying Oriental, NC
>WDB5619
>
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