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Steel Rope to Synthetic Rope - Winch Questions

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Saffy:

--- Quote from: Landroverstormer on May 04, 2010, 18:41:23 ---Thanks again, and any further comments are welcome.

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check out the goodwinch dyneema promo video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGcnn_CJiE
.. at about  3.00min into the video you will see what I mean about the end termination types. Superwinch defo the easier method :lol:

J.D.:
Mine is connected with a cable crimp BUT. I have used a small length of plasma rope, spliced together to form an endless loop to secure the last 5 winds of cable onto the drum. It is choked around the last two, then choked onto the 5th wind, this prevents all the rope being dragged off the drum.
 

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: Saffy on May 04, 2010, 17:30:03 ---I'd like to hear from the winch challenge guys on here if they spool on synthetic in a particular way. Synthetic tends to pull into the lower layer when under load if wound neatly like steel and I read in past on USA forums those that spool in a criss-cross manner to stop that.

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Yeap, I've had the same.  I try to use it payed out round a pulley rather than let it bunch up on the drum.

Mark Y:
It doesn't matter how you connect to the drum, warn winch has a tiny grub scew, it isn't that which holds it on the drum, it is the first 3-6 wraps around the drum which capston it on which hold it, as with steel put the first 6 wraps on under tension and don't winch out past that and you will be fine, I have held them on with slip knots on the drum before, so long as the rest is capstoned onto the drum.

Saffy:
With the above in mind I have a wee tag positioned on the line to tell me that there is only a few turns left on the drum. The tag is positioned along the line so that when sitting in driver seat I get a visual indication when to stop paying out (my winch is operated primarily from driver seat)

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