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Re: any success with winches?
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Originally Posted by briholton
Hey Matt, what is the lever arm of your winch? In other words, what is the radius of the cylinder that the "rope" winds around? I'd be curious because this week I was planning on using the van door motor with winch and thought it would work well....... silly me.

thanks

I will tell you that the van door motor does work we used sprokets to change the power. we used a 5" cylinder this was done in 2000


We are using the 2 tyco motors. we cut our own gears but I bet you can find gears that would work

We are going up 18" per second we can pull over 200lbs

we are using a 6" cylinder with a bar to stop back drive. this is a one ticket up until we reset it.