From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 10:00:18 PST
John Tennis, at jatonka@telenet.net has shear pins available.
a p bloom
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From: "Michael P. Maynard" <mmaynard@rochester.rr.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: [MV] M35 Winching Questions
> Don't ya just love all my questions??? ;-)
>
> So I messed with the winch last night, was pulling a tree up the hill.
> Was working great. But being that I was pulling at a slight angle all
> the cable was winding on one side of the drum. Well with the
> convenience of the controls in the cab and dad down watching the tree,
> neither of us saw it happening until it was too late.... the cable
> overwound on the one side, bound up, and snapped the shear pin. Now I
> have around 100' of cable out of the winch, and no way to drive it!!!
> LOL Any ideas on how to prevent this in the future? I cant imagine that
> it is all that possible to steer the cable when a load is on it. I also
> wonder if I can find a mirror to hang out over the front to watch it
> from the cab... ;-) So what exactly is the shear pin? I really need to
> come up with some, and I know I can buy them. But I would also like to
> be able to use the winch in the mean time. I know they are aluminum,
> but is it a specific grade? Or is 6061 t6 ok? What is the diameter of
> the pin? And the length. Is it hollow? If so, what is the ID.... are
> they press fit? Or is there something that keeps them from sliding out?
> Interestingly enough, I couldn't find any remains of the pin last night
> other than little shavings....
>
> Well for what its worth, we hauled a healthy load of black locust
> firewood out of my uncles orchard last night (was on the side hill
> between orchards). My other uncle that lives nearby said he was pretty
> sure that it wasn't a Mexican van he saw/heard coming down the side
> hill... ;-)
>
> As for my sparks, they seem to have gone away. I still need to pin
> point the excessive noise at higher RPM's. I figure the little driving
> that I am doing around the local orchard is helping me to diagnose it
> while having fun at the same time. :-)I wish I had an easy way to record
> sound on the puter, because I would record it for everyone to hear.
>
> I think that's it for today, maybe....
> Mike
>
>
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