I finally got around to some deferred maintenance on my winches over the holiday weekend. I have owned the boat for one year and had no idea if the winches had ever received any care at all. Soooooo...guess what?...NOPE....NAH-DA....The grease had solidified into something resembling varnish. It took soaking the gears and bearings for several hours in Acetone followed by in some cases, scraping and such, swearing..(no really it did involve cussing the PO's) followed by carefully lubricating everything and putting it all back together. That was for the first one. Since it took well over 10 hours of work, the second one will have to wait, and there are 3 more winches. Moral of the story, DON'T NEGLECT YOUR WINCHES FOLKS!
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