> > Interestingly, on (I think) all these "new design" locks you can see
> > that something has been broken off the casting near the windlass
> > spindle. As the current means of holding the paddle open (a square
> > horseshoe-shaped thing on a chain, which fits over the spindle)
> > actually looks rather make-do (although it does work), I
> have wondered
> > whether there was originally a different means.
>
> I've had the same thought. It looks to me as if there may
> originally have
> been a brake band to hold it open.
We (the Claverton team) looked at this when we did Hatton. There were a
couple that still had the gear part of a ratchet mechanism (just behind
the square that the windlass goes on, presumably they get removed as the
squares get worn and are replaced) and you can clearly see on most of
them where the pawl was bolted onto the casting but that the casting has
broken. Obviously it was a weak point, hence the later "bodge" (which
does work well...).
I'm sure a certain Mr Bruce Pecket reckoned he had some early literature
on them when we last discussed it (or maybe it was the time before) :-)
George "Bungle" Eycott
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