Another Home-made Rope Guide Thread

[DrewB]

some spliced pinto's:001_smile:

[WeeDee]

Yeah I agree with Drew.

 

Oh yeah and anyone no what they use in the Treemagineers pullysaver to keep the eye open?

 

I believe those boys use magic pixie dust .... or something like that.

[CraigD]

Nice work there Drew, I found some damage on one of my pinto's:thumbdown:, Ill take some pix today and post after work , The damage is on the side of the pulley wheel, like its been side loaded and rubbed against the side plate on the pulley.. Just wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem?

[DrewB]

yeah ive seen that on a couple of them now mate-i can see how a shackle can get sucked up onto the pulley and damage it but i cant work out how the side gets damaged.ill try and get some pics to see if were talking about the same problem.

[browncow]

I posted some pics on here somewhere of my pinto which had the shackle sucked up. I have a witchard (spelling) shackle and if the 'pin' end gets sucked in it results in a line around the sheave just off centre and also damage to the side of the sheave caused by the handle of the pin. I have been able to manipulate the shackle to sit just right to see how this damage may be occurring.

 

I now have a longer length of rope to where the shackle sits and a heavier stopper knot and no more problems there.

 

Edit - post 13 of this thread shows the damage to my pinto

Edited May 4, 2011 by browncow
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[CraigD]

Here are the pics of my damaged pinto, also sounds like the bearing is broken also as there is a grinding noise when under load

I was hoping there was just a little stone or something stuck in it but seems to be completely stuffed

Third pic is of side that isn't damaged

[browncow]

Woah, definitely sounds and looks like the bearing has collapsed. Has it smacked into anything hard on retrieval? At least the becket is rated if for some reason the sheave came loose before you noticed all this.

[CraigD]

Nah it hasn't been dropped on retrieval, I use my throw line to retrieve and I havent shock loaded or overloaded it that I am aware of, Its only few months old aswell, I can only think of side load pulley maybe against trunk of tree and squeezed pulley together causing it to rub and in the end causing bearing to fail, but yeah, glad its got rated becket

[atree]

Thats a bugger craig

[CraigD]

Sure is mate