Winches in the UK?

[Mike Smart]

Any UK fliers here? - Where is the best place to get a winch and line in the UK?
Have tried Gliders, but they do not have the Graupner professional version or it seems, some of the heavier line.

Mike Smart

[thermalbum]

Mike,
There is a thread in Flyquiet discussing winch availability

http://www.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=ad086680d3e697b2445b522f479506 de&topic=188.0

[GNieuwoudt]

Rickey Mitchell in South Africa make winches from the original Hollenbach design. These winches are on F3B standard, but can be used for 2m to anything. Due to the currency exchage I think this may be a option to considder if you are in UK or USA. His work is of the highest standard and a few of his winches has been used at the WC in the past by the SA team. He can be contacted at (rickmitchell at xsinet.co.za)

Cheers
Gert

[POF]

Got one from http://www.oberflugmodellbau.de/index2.html

Good quality :)

He also sells EMC lines from http://www.emcvega.de/

[psoff3x]

Any UK fliers here? - Where is the best place to get a winch and line in the UK?
Have tried Gliders, but they do not have the Graupner professional version or it seems, some of the heavier line.

Mike Smart

Hi Mike

Try Brian Johnson, active in all things thermal in the UK, email address on the Barcs site here
http://home.clara.net/barcs/2006res/01calendar-bycontact.htm

He has some Jack Fisher design winches for sale and usually has a variety of EMC mono line available.

There's also a UK manufacturer here
http://www.topwinch.co.uk/

Some of the best quality winches here (mentioned by POF)
http://www.oberflugmodellbau.de/1312.html

Best quality mono line from EMC here
http://emc-vega.de/

Tony Vale may also have EMC line, see the Barcs site for contact details. You could also ask Tony Becket who maintains the Barcs site to post a 'wanted' ad that should reach most people who use winches in the UK.
http://www.barcs.co.uk/

HTH

Pete Softley

[Mike Smart]

Thanks very much everyone, I will follow those links up.

Mike

[sergif3b]

Hi Mike!

All f3b top pilots in Europe are ordering winches to Walter Reist. You can see photos in my site http://www.pbase.com/sergif3b/walter_reist_winch

See you

Sergi Valls

F3B at Home - http://f3bathome.blogspot.com/