Winch cable

[101 Ron]

As some of you fellow 101 owners know I broke my winch cable a while ago and there are no replacements advailable with the correct swaged fitting needed so the cable can be threaded though front or rear of the vehicle quickly.
If you need a cable for a 101 let me know now as I am getting one made with the correct swage end on it in stainless steel.
It is just as easy to make more at the same time.
It could be a problem to do at a later date.
Should cost about $350 dollars plus freight and may be GST.
65 mtrs special 9mm wire rope with stainless Ronstand eye of similar spec to original .

[Mick_Marsh]

I'd be interested in one or two if it gets the price down.
What's the time frame?

regards
Mick

[101 Ron]

The time frame is now.
The price will not come down as it is not too bad now.
The problem is getting the swage done with the correct gear by some one who is willing to do it.
The swage is a non standard thing and must take full cable working load.
Most cable people do not want to know about it.
I turns out the cable is abit special too.
I have been for many months been trying to find a solution, as has been Garrycol.
I just need to know numbers to be made.
My cable will be swaged in the next few days.
The only reason someone is doing this for me is that they owe me big time for work I have done to a forklift.

[101 Ron]

the supplied swage fitting will be some thing like this.


Compared to the original.




most people do not want to risk the expensive swage dies on a non standard cable.

[101 Ron]

The original cable was drilled out of the standard swage end and it is interesting to note the steel had moulded itself around the cable and kind of flowed into the cable and this effect is what gives it the grip on the cable in a small spot.
The small end swaged eye it needed so the cable can be threaded front to rear on the 101 though the pulleys.
Even with the correct standard swaged eye the one of the double pulleys has to be removed with a 15/16 spanner to get the cable though .
with the correct cable the job takes about 5 mins compared to hours without the correct cable.
the cable itself must be exactly a 9mm IWRC because of the capstan design of the winch and when the winch is at capacity the cable is very close to its safe working load.

[101 Ron]

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/fcs-milita...led-102-a.html

[Mick_Marsh]

I take it you are getting lots of PM's. It's like getting one side of a telephone conversation.

I'll have two please. Let me know when and how to make payment. (I'm fresh out of brown paper bags and used non-sequential notes.)

regards
Mick

[101 Ron]

I have not been gettting PMs
1x 101 Ron
2x Mick Marsh
I will get my hands on them and send them and hopefully I will see the money in the brown paper bag soon afterwards.

[101 Ron]

The latest information I have on the cables is the fellow making them is going to buy a 500 mtrs roll of 9mm wire as the cost of the wire then drops to something like a $1.50 per mtr.
As the three cables is going to use 200 mtrs of wire and to have this cut from a 500 mtr roll is going to cost the same as buying the whole roll.
Therefore it is possible now to do more 101 winch cables and lower costs greatly if more than three are made.
In fact I think the bloke doing the job is going to make a extra two in the hope that some one buys them.
As i said before ........now is the time for a 101 winch cable.
Ron

[PeterP]

Ron,

Being having internet trouble, it looks OK now.

My winch cable looks alright but I think one of these would be advantageous in the future. Count me in for one.

Will forward brown paper bag as appropriate. The plates should be ready next week, perhaps we could work something with that. Let me know the details for payment.

Cheers,
Peter