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Old 08-08-2005, 06:05 PM
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It 90% works.

Let's look at the naughty bits.


Winch drum on bumper, just for scale looks. I *HAD* to have a winch on my rock crushing Winch Bumper! But I'm not enough of a poser to slap on a fake winch, so...

I have an inner winch drum which is the REAL one the line actually spools from, there's going to be a spring retract so I don't have to pop body off to wind it back in like I do now.

You can also see the bottom of my bed, the rear LED routing I had to use, even how I attached my rock sliders to the rockers. You can't see how I "lowered" the headlight LEDs so they shine through headlight under the silver bar (instead of above where they were blocked partially by my brushguard).

So, how'd I do it? The winch line itself is 3 strands of 6 strand "embrordery floss", the wrappings on the spool are the same, but twisted tightly and carefully laid. The spool was a red plastic tube off a can of "Electrosolv". The winch hook was a split jumpring off a steel necklace I got out of a $0.25 gumball machine thing, the recovery points were links of that necklace chain. The inner-drum for winch was a rim from a pullback McToy, I just cut the rubber off and it's a perfect drum with guides. Hair spring is out of a broken alarmclock.

I've still got to shave down my cable spool support bracket a bit, find a nice thin screw that'll fit up center of brass spring, some other hardware, little glue. Then I'll see you on the trail!
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