I got two of the winches down today. As you can see, lots of parts to these things. Each has to be washed in kerosene to get the grease and oil off. Then washed in soapy water to get the kerosene off. Then re-greased--lightly. I actually painted on a thin film of grease just to make sure there wasn't a lot put on. Some oil here and there and back together. I took pictures along the way just to make sure I knew how to put it back together.
I'm down to three left. Each one takes about three hours to get done. With so many pieces, you don't want to end up with extra pieces when you finish.
We are ordering new lettering for Zephyrs stern. The old one is a bit faded and we need to change the "hailing port" from Seattle to Denver to comply with the Coast Guard. The last thing we want to do is upset them.
Our electrician rearranged some of the batteries and chargers today. He wants all the chargers together and and most of the batteries together. The original set up had been charger-two batteries--charger--two batteries. Now it's two chargers and four batteries. We haven't heard from the company that is fixing the charge monitoring system. Hope fully tomorrow. He was supposed to call today. Oh well.
Tomorrow--more winches. Boy what fun!?! Never a dull moment.
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