75ft / 23m

Its up ,listen out for me #on air guys 

Up up up and away

New Gear box all in place and in its mounts .Pad at the side is for the tourqe reaction arm just to allow a little movement in case the coupling isn't bang on !

Managed to maintain the old chain guard ..saved a bit of time there .

Motor fitted to final drive with anchor arm in place 

From the other side

Its too fast

 Got round to trying the #electric tower winch ..if the motor had got enough poke it would of been up in 10 secs .It needs a reduction .Just so happens I've got the one left which I didn't use from the rotator :-).


By mounting the box here, if its still to fast i can put another chain reduction on it LOL .It will do 3 rpm as oppose 30 before .

Of course its never all straight forward over here ...the box is imperial ,they don't do metric imperial motor couplers so ive made one ...yes yes ill get some grub screws ,but for the time being they will suffice. These will also provide the drive (cant cut internal keyways here ) being as they are on the low torque side it should be fine if they break ,the worm drive will hold the tower up .

A bit more tomorrow 

A lick of paint

All Painted ,Ringspan tightened ready to roll

Installed onto tower, this nearly killed me !!! One hell of a lift with a bad back ,anyway its there !!!

View from the other side 

What's left to do now is get a bag of volts and chuck it in the motor ....maybe tomorrow i'm beat and need a seat .....oooh it rhymes .

Back to the winch (raise and lower)

Back to the winch .Having fitted the triplex chain ,it really needs a guard on it !!

Off cut of 3mm from the workshop steel archive !! cut and shaped 

Welded a band around the 2 half's then cut through middle ,makes a clamshell guard

This will keep the weather off the chain ,also keep the kids from getting there fingers in it ,having said that the winch is in the air abt 6ft/1.8m

A lick of paint is all i need to finish this now,unfortunately im struggling with a bad back and retired from workshop duty for a bit