We have them. Five of them to be exact. Barient went out of business. Awesome. One of our cabin-top winches blew out a stripper ring which is the little plastic piece that sits behind the stainless steel line feed and prevents the line from jamming behind the line feed. Awesome-er.
Turns out, however, there's an Australian company out there called Hutton Winches that will provide spare parts for some of the Barient/Barlow winches. As luck would have it, they had our spare part, too. Awesome-est.
We ordered a couple extra since shipping from Australia = not cheap.
http://www.arco-winches.com/products/spares
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If you ever need to warm up or melt some of those plastic pieces to the Barients(or melt butter) Christy knows how to do that.
Good to here that you've found those parts.
Ha! THAT's awesome-est!
For those who don't know, Christy has a history of warming up butter in a plastic dish by setting the plastic dish on top of our diesel bulkhead heater. She was very surprised to learn high heat will melt not only butter but the plastic container it's in.
Funny, that hasn't made it into a blog entry yet. Hmmmm.....
Well it WAS an inside joke, now everyone knows. Sorry Christy!
You might be slightly over-estimating our readership here at svhelloworld.com. :)
Besides, my screwups get published. A few of Christy's wouldn't hurt.
uh OK people...i was not SURPRISED that it melted. i just happened to forget about the fact that i put it on the heater and was supposed to get it BEFORE it melted - argghhhh!! :) besides, the melted plastic smoke escaped the boat as soon as i opened the hatch, no worries. :)
I love a good winch story.
Christy christy christy - you knew it was going to melt and you did it anyway? I think that's worse than not knowing! And no, that plastic smoke didn't escape, I breathed it in, but I promise I didn't inhale it!
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