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Unread 12-01-2004, 18:40
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Re: If you would "pull-up"...

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Originally Posted by Cory
It really depends how you're going to lift yourself. If you were making a winch of some sort, Id say the easiest would be the Van door, sinceit already has a decent amount of torque, which you could reduce with sprockets and chains. Im not going to go into anything else, because I dont want to give any of my ideas away

Cory
A caution about the Van Door motor... we made a winch with it in 2000, but we had to use two of them to get enough torque to do it.

Also, if you're using the Globe motors for anything, make absolutely sure there are NO SIDE LOADS on the Globes. They can't handle side loads, and will burn out very fast otherwise. We went through about 6 of them making a lock mechanism for our winch in 2000.
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