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Old 11-09-2010, 03:03 PM   #3 (permalink)
todayican
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Just getting the first bars of steel cut :-) I also have a build log over at belaero.com

Heres a fun dilemma, any engineers in the house?

for this to work, the winch motor has to disengage from whatever sprocket or gear its on while driving the wheel at low speeds.

Anyone have any links to successful instances of this? say reverse on a motorcycle?

Heres one way I was thinking it may work:

Use a 1/2" wide flywheel ring gear, fab a center section for it and mount it outboard of the drive sprocket on the wheel.

Then mount a pinion gear on the winch motor and mount the motor on a "track" so it can be moved toward and away from the ring gear.
Think this would hold up?
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