I had issues with my alloy Barlows and Barients. Issue 1 - the pawl receptacle was wallowing out. That caused the pawls to stick or to partially exit the receptacle. Bad! I took them to a machinist who was interested in all things boating. He declined to touch them. He could have filled the rebored the pawl holes.
Issue 2 - I had some teeth break off the inside of the drum. I took the drum to a machine shop where they filled then recut the teeth. $200. My ultimate solution was to replace ALL 6 of the alloy winches with chrome bronze and stainless winches off eBay and Craiglist List. 2 stainless Barient 22's, 2 chrome Barlow 28's and 2 chrome Barlow 26's for $1100 total plus some shipping. In my opinion, alloy winches have a limited service life. I would check eBay often to upgrade to chrome bronze or stainless. Chrome and stainless winches look great and improve the "pier appeal" of your boat. To search Craigslist and local classifieds, use claz.org or yakaz.com. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:00 PM, mike amirault via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > My Barient 27’s are developing a lot of play. The aluminum drums wearing > badly (the inside, not the outside). > > The rest of the winches are in great shape, gears, bearings, pawls. I was > wondering if anyone on the group has ever tried having a machine shop bore > out the interior of the drum to accept a sleeve of aluminum or oilite > bronze. I contacted Hutton Winches in Australia and they told me they do > this service for $400/drum. Obviously, shipping 2 large winches to > Australia and back would be out of the question. > > Anyone had this done at a local machine shop? > > > > Mike Amirault > > C&C33ii Lovely Cruise > > SMSC > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > >
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