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You should service your winches at least once during the pre-season. However, if your boat lives in a salt water environment, and the seasons are longer, then servicing your winches twice a season is best. If you race your boat hard, you may want to maintain your winches before every regatta. </FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Should I grease the pawls?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>The pawls are the parts that make the little clicking noises as the winch rotates, and they are your winche's heart and soul. The pawls must be lubricated. Don't use grease. This heavy lubricant may make the pawls stick so the winch backwinds. The best thing to use is a very light oil such as sewing machine oil or 3 & 1 oil. </FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Are Harken winches available in other materials beside black aluminum?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Yes. They also come in chrome and bronze.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>What kind of tools do I need to service a Harken winch?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>You will need a straight blade screwdriver to remove the drum. Some of the larger winches require a set of metric Allen wrenches (4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm and 8 mm). You will also need a thin utility knife or small pocketknife to remove the pawls.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Can white lithium grease be used on the gears?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Probably, but it will not hold up in a marine environment. Harken grease is best because it is a non-aging, high synthetic lubricant that will resist both salt and fresh water.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Will the self-tailing mechanism work with a variety of line sizes?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Yes. The upper jaw of the self-tailing device is spring loaded to accommodate different sizes. For example, the 40 mm self-tailing winch will handle 8 mm to 12 mm line.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>How is the drum removed?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>It's really simple. All you do is unscrew the screw that sits in the bottom of the winch handle socket. Lift the socket out and then the drum. Remove the drum carefully because sometimes the roller bearing cage sticks in the drum and could drop in the water.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>How do I adjust the position of the stripper arm on my winch?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>To adjust the stripper arm on winches from 53.2ST to 16ST, remove the top screw and the winch handle socket from the winch. Lift the stripper arm, turn it to the position you want, and put the socket and screw back in place. If you want more information, read the appropriate service manual, or call us at Harken and we will walk you through the adjustment process.</FONT></P> <P><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Can I use McLube™ Sailkote™ to grease my winch?</FONT></B><BR><FONT face=Verdana>McLube Sailkote ™ is a great product and you can use this dry lubricant to make sails, hulls, deck hardware , and rigging more efficient and last longer. BUT for winches, we recommend Harken winch grease, a special all-temperature grease that is very resistant to salt and fresh water.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080><B>What parts of a winch get oiled and which get greased?<BR></B></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>The gear teeth and roller bearings should be <U>lightly</U> greased. Don't overdo it. Too much grease can pick up dirt, sand, etc and damage the gears. Make sure you use a synthetic type of grease that is resistant to both salt and fresh water. </FONT><FONT face=Verdana>The pawls and springs get oiled. Again be careful not to overdo. Any kind of 3:1 oil works well.</FONT></P> <P><BR><BR></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080><STRONG>Tight arse tip of the week</STRONG></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Radical New Running Rig (for mothers-in-law)</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>You’ve heard of the tweaker, the topper and the traveller, but have you heard of the shusher? </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>This remarkable addition to the running rigging could improve the performance of countless twilight and day racers. </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Spotted recently onboard a well known ‘largish’ boat; The shusher is a sheet that runs into any through-deck or cockpit hole and is attached to a length of concealed shock (elastic) cord, which in turn is attached to any suitable below deck strong point. The result of course is a sheet that when pulled, provides increasing resistance but in fact does nothing at all. It’s principal application is for sponsors, over eager novices or crew who keep getting in the way hence the name – the shusher, because it’s used to keep them occupied and shush them up.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>I believe prototypes are available from Sean Langman at Noakes. Retail sales from Sturrocks.</FONT></P> <P><BR><BR><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080><STRONG>This one’s a beauty.</STRONG> </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Is your nickname “Wrongway”?. Ever forgotten which is the next mark? In between beers and bullshit the short-term memory sometimes gets left dockside. One of the best LOW COST solutions to this dilemma was seen on a small Sydney keel boat crewed by a few people obviously familiar with short term memory deficit. </FONT></P> <P></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>They’ve painted a slab on the aftside of the main hatch with blackboard paint and write the course in chalk for each race. Everyone on board can see it and it stops that annoying bloody question. </FONT></P> </body>