I'm going to have to rebuild my windlass, the Lofrans Tigres. It apparently has a "safety feature" where when dropping your anchor, if there is too much force pulling the chain out of the locker, it just spins the gypsy and no chain comes out. This does not happen when weighing anchor - thank god- but this windlass is now not working well when dropping the anchor. This mechanism is not functioning correctly and I'll have to hand pull the anchor chain out of the locker for much of the time while dropping anchor. Rather a pain in the a$$....
I have two questions:
1) Has anybody worked on on of these and do you have any technical manuals. I can only find the installation and users manual on-line, a maintenance kit and a 3D model (a file I'm working on getting the software to open). But I can't find a technical manual that has detailed instruction on this windlass. If anyone has advice on rebuilding one of these, please let me know any concerns or watch-outs - like small parts that like to fall out when taking it apart, or a sequence of disassembly, whatever.
2) When talking with Lofrans, they said there is a way to lock this mechanism so that this "safety feature" no longer exists. Can anybody think of a reason why I should not do this? I'm trying to see what this kind of "safety feature" really does. Why would I not want the windlass to simply pull the chain out of the locker even if there is a lot of resistance?
dj
I have two questions:
1) Has anybody worked on on of these and do you have any technical manuals. I can only find the installation and users manual on-line, a maintenance kit and a 3D model (a file I'm working on getting the software to open). But I can't find a technical manual that has detailed instruction on this windlass. If anyone has advice on rebuilding one of these, please let me know any concerns or watch-outs - like small parts that like to fall out when taking it apart, or a sequence of disassembly, whatever.
2) When talking with Lofrans, they said there is a way to lock this mechanism so that this "safety feature" no longer exists. Can anybody think of a reason why I should not do this? I'm trying to see what this kind of "safety feature" really does. Why would I not want the windlass to simply pull the chain out of the locker even if there is a lot of resistance?
dj