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Re: We need help... A lot of it

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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky View Post
It's one continuous cable and they terminate connected to the elevator plate. There is only one cable but the way it's setup I don't know how you would use more then one cable.
You don't need to use more than one. You just bring in a longer piece of cable.

As follows:
1) Unterminate one end of existing cable.
2) Terminate one end of new, longer cable where previous cable used to be.
3) Run new cable and unrun old cable along the same path, until you hit the winch drum.
4) Wrap new cable around drum about 3 times.
5) Continue #3 above until you reach the other termination point.
6) Terminate new cable (probably want to do a temporary termination here, and make it permanent later). Make sure old cable is gone.
7) Test.
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