Tim McCann winch reviewed

[ferradas]

Check it out here: www.bayrc.com

[shoe]

nice review, how much did you end up spending after it was all said and done?

[ferradas]

About $550.00, you can do it for less but I wanted to use all of the same parts as Tim's design. For instance, you really don't need the power connectors , but they are very nice to have, that alone was about $40.00, you can also probably get by with thinner cable, cable alone was another $40.00.

[Hoot]

A couple of questions:

1. Now that it is complete, is there any thing you would change?

2. The last few pictures of your review didn't download. Have they been posted?

I'm in line for a winch kit !

Thanks,
Steve Gibson

[ferradas]

I'm probably not a good person to ask if there is anything I would change because this is my first winch and the only winch I have any experience with. As far as i can tell everything works great and I can't figure out if I would change anything on it. It's a very clean setup. I think the only thing would probably be if I could get away with thinner cables to the battery I probably would unless you can find 1/0 cables that are less stiff than the ones I have. It seems that mine are pretty stiff, I may have to just work them a bit and let them wear, maybe they'll loosen up, but then again, that's the least of my worries.

You should try re-loading the page, I tried it and all the pictures are there.

[Ollie]

You might try a welding supply outlet. Welding cable is made from many more strands of much finer wire an is quite flexible. See:
http://store.weldingdepot.com/cgi/weldingdepot/scan/fi=products/st=db/sp=results/co=1/sf=category/se=Welding%20%26%20Power%20Cable/op=eq/nu=0/bs=1/ml=15/tf=description/to=x/se=1/sf=inactive/op=ne/sf=tax_category/se=1/op=eq/va=banner_text=/va=banner_image=.html