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Originally Posted by bs7280

Thanks for the reply!
This was definately very helpful and remains a viable option for us and others, and is definately doable.

I of course want to keep our options open, so I have to ask, is there anywhere we can get something similar to this with out any back driving?

I am intrigued with the idea of using a gearbox with a worm gear, but I do not know where to get the equivalent of a stand alone dog clutch to use in apsuch a design.

You *could* use an Andymark WormBox as the input on one of the shifter gearboxes, essentially preventing the winch from back driving. However, that would probably reduce the speed of the output to something too slow to be usable, so it would be necessary to replace the gears in the shifter to have no reduction, rather than the stock reduction used.