Making The Easiest Winch!

Making The Easiest Winch!

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This Old Tony

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This video demonstrates the construction of a simple capstan winch using a motor-driven drum and rope, illustrating how the capstan principle provides high pulling force with minimal effort. The step-by-step build covers the drum construction, motor mounting, and rope wrapping technique, followed by functional testing that shows the winch pulling heavy loads with ease. The project is a practical example of mechanical advantage that hobbyists can replicate in their own workshops.

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Let's discover the wonderful world of capstan winches... together! Check out Ohio Hill Tops Hobby Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nymwmvJnSg ---- Music: The Whole Other - Barnyard Surprise

Top Comments

@
DouglasMcClean

This is how they moved the projectiles around on battleships, winches like this scattered around the floor of the projectile handling spaces.

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whitecaps775

Elevator screens in highrise construction using capstand but never considered the the math behind it. Great video, entertaining and food for the pea brain. Thanks Tony

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mitchek6509

0:42 😂

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tzfeabnjo

22:12 13 5 1.6 funny numbers

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TheHomerepo

6:54 looks like perfect pillow stuffing to me

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