Fishes - Overhaul and maintenance of a winch of fisheries

This item is addressed to the fishermen who have a winch which is not new any more, and which are a little handymen and meticulous. To remove is never well complicated, but at the time of the reassembly, if you donot can identify any more one of the parts of your winch, or so worse still, you miss small, the operated winch can not be operational more. You will have at the time it disassembling to observe well the whole of parts and to understand their function and the way in which they are made up.
Thus if you have a doubt about your capacities, and the conversation being an obligation so that your winch you serf , do not hesitate to entrust the overhaul of your winch to a professional.
For those which have a recent winch, think of its guarantee which can be cancelled if you damage it. Also, to avoid you unpleasant surprised, I can only advise you to follow very scrupulously the instructions of manufacturing. At all events, thank you to note that this item, cannot be substituted, with the instructions of conversation of manufacturing your winch… if however they exist!

For my part, without being a maniac, I take the greatest care of my hardware, and as a of my winches. Set up at each each fishing party and removed then, they are rinsed and wiped before joining the small bag which protects them from the shocks and dust. Also, and by experiment, I devote myself each winter to a simple conversation. On good ten winches which I have, the overhaul is justified often only every 3 years… except accident.
Thus I still have my very first winch, offered by an old fisherman, and who approaches his 50 years. The ancestor is spared and takes part only in the fisheries of the more beautiful days, but proclamation still an exceptional form at the time of the engagements with small carnivores. It is about a “ 600” of the whole beginning of the Sixty, which of course, will be never to sell and will remain attached to my memories of kid. Rare privilege granted and accepted by my wife… a small place on an edge of window, with sight on pond, history not to let it sink in the melancholy. nostalgia when you hold us…!

To carry out this conversation, disencumber a surface of work sufficient and clean. Spread out a clean cloth of kitchen and clear color to align your parts there and to see them well.
As regards the tools, it is necessary for you to prepare just within reach:

- A rag
- a roller of briefcases paper (standard )
- a small cup of
- seed and oil for winch
- an old brush with tooth
- cotton stems
- tweezers
- your small Phillips screwdrivers and flat
- keys necessary to open the winch
- Lastly, the note of your winch, with the burst sight which is there and can be useful to you

A small consulting which can save you the setting, especially if it is the first time that you maintain your winch.
Align beyond the surface from work (on the cloth of kitchen), two or three leaves and what to write. Indeed, the winches contain a certain number of screws, discs and gears which will be to order in the good sense during the reassembly. Also, by withdrawing one after the other the parts, you will align them in front of you, such as, from left to right on your leaves. You will number each one of it on the leaf, history of you to find there.

In the order, it thus will be necessary for you to carry out disassembling, cleaning, drying, lubrication, and finally the reassembly. You are ready? You have all within reach? One goes there…

Easy a priori, but do not go too quickly. Observe well each part during disassembling.

The winch directed in a direction with your , distribute the parts on the right, in the center and on the left (on your 2 or 3 leaves), such as they must be given later on the winch. You rather quickly will manage to remove the casing of the winch and to see the mechanism.

It is there, the easiest party… but raise already the question to know if you would be able to go up the few parts which are removed. Try continuation before all to forget, for retaining the command of the parts well and understanding the utility of each one well. Look at if you understand the diagram of your winch (so present in the note). Take your time… and before continuing look at your internal mechanism well.
If you have this winch since one or two seasons and that you used it little, it is possible that grease is not soiled. It forwards a translucent aspect then and in this case, the overhaul is transformed into a simple conversation.

In this case, you can be satisfied to clean your mechanism using some cotton stems dry.
Then soak in some in the and the cleaning of the areas “lubricates” and/or “oils”. Actuate the mechanism nothing to forget as well with cleaning as with the wiping. For this last be meticulous. It is a question of not leaving any trace of this solvent before giving grease and/or oil. Cotton stem will trim well and finish with absorbing paper short periods (), which you will handle with the tweezers.

If it proves that you should carry out a complete overhaul, you can proceed in the same way, while spending there more time. You will avoid disassembling thus, especially if it appears complex to you. But do not believe that will not be enough. It will be a right question there you of implementing to clean, Re to clean… etc handling is longer , but will be completely conclusive according to your implementation.
If you feel all to remove, made it carefully and method. Remove item by item, by cleaning each one progressively and align as suggested higher. You will avoid the mixture. With disassembling, clips and pins can be delicate to remove. Use the adapted tool and do not force under penalty of striping the part of support or to see flying this of fixing.
For the dirtiest parts, let soak ten minutes in the . There brush then with your old brush with tooth, and give to steeping ten minute to perfect cleaning.
With regard to the bearings, which them cannot be open, to make turn them after steeping to better dissolve depositions and stains. Start again the operation several times so necessary, by taking care to wipe each time. Absorbing paper will reveal if your bearing is clean or not.

After cleaning and before lubricating again certain parts, dry each one using absorbing paper. The evaporates , but implement. I have several times used, for the bearings, dries it hair of Madam. Satisfy to create a tepid draft thus and especially do not heat them more than one should not. It is at the same time superfluous and even detrimental.

Oil and lubricates to maintain a winch sin

So generally that is done after reassembly, it is parts which covered owe the being at the moment or you position back the part.
For memory use oil for the part rapids (bearings), and of grease for the slow parts (axes). Use lubricants designed for the winches, but understand well that one should not in no case to put some of too much. It is completely useless and are even likely to see the surplus dispersing in all your winch. On the one hand, certain parts should not be fatty, and moreover, it will be dirtied even more quickly and this dice the first uses.
Not to exaggerate be “skinflint”. 1 only oil drop distributed well on a bearing is enough. By soaking the point of a cure tooth in grease, you will have what to gradually pose right what it is necessary on an axis or gears.
These lubricants are there only to improve the friction between the parts, and friction is done on negligible surfaces. Also measure in .

According to what you removed, ordered, cleaned and cig in a precise order, operate the reassembly in the opposite direction, part after part.
After a meticulous wiping and once gone up the casing, wipe your winch correctly and test the few minutes. The actuation of the mechanisms will correctly distribute the lubricants and you will be thus ready for the opening.

There is little, and unfortunately I do not know any more in which circumstance, I had wind of an good idea. Use your digital photograph to take some photographs during disassembling. That can be to you of a great help indeed. Very honestly I ever thought of it…