Thread: Aldi winch

Buy the winch then buy some Dyneema to replace the steel rope. Simples.

That's what I did.

Originally Posted by sam_d

Buy the winch then buy some Dyneema to replace the steel rope. Simples.

That's what I did.

...... And then sell the wire rope to help defray the cost ?

Did you grab the recent one?? It says ip76 on the box??

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Originally Posted by JoeFriend

Did you grab the recent one?? It says ip76 on the box??

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I got mine about a year ago but it was exactly the same one as they had again more recently.

Worth the $400 then? Just trying to figure out what I should do, the eBay ones are about the same with dyneema plus about 60 odd for postage BUT this has a few more features.

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Originally Posted by JoeFriend

Worth the $400 then? Just trying to figure out what I should do, the eBay ones are about the same with dyneema plus about 60 odd for postage BUT this has a few more features.

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Yeah, it's not bad for the money. I dismantled mine before installing it to have a look at the grease and general build and for the money it's pretty good.

Get the Aldi one. At least you got a winch then! And put that $60 you'd be spending on the postage on an unknown eBay winch towards some Dyneema. If you don't get the Dyneema straight away the steel is perfectly fine anyway.

I'm not knocking the eBay retailers but I'd expect Aldi to have a better warranty coverage. It might be worth the few extra $ for that.

its a good winch and if its the same as the one I have the internals are the same as the iron man winch in the same lbs class.

service, or have someone service it for you and pack it with proper grease, rework the cable seals.

keep the wire rope on it till you bust it then put your synth stuff on. What I've taken to advising people who want to use synth to do is to put a very small fly lead onto the winch anchor point and keep the main coil of rope in the vehicle out of sight and sun in a bag.

when you need to winch simply bend the main rope onto the fly lead and power it in for at least 5 turns of the main, set up what you need to recover then winch up the slack. When you're finished winch it all onto the drum (you may need it again) and when you get home, unspool it into a mesh laundry bag, chuck it in the washing machine, hang it to dry overnight (or hang it up in the gargage) then put it back in the bag in the car.


(with the way the costs keep coming down on the synth rope its not going to be long until you can afford to carry a single rope for each major length recovery you need to do.)