After many, many years of hard use, the red Wade winches used at the AMA/LSF Nats have been retired.
In the fall of 2005, LSF and AMA negotiated a deal where LSF was to procure and built 12 new winches and turnarounds, based on the Tim McCann winch kits and off-the-ground turnarounds. We are using new 3110 Ford long shaft starter motors and winch wiring kits from Tom Bianchi at Injoy Lure Coursing. Over the past 8 weeks, I have been working with a group of fellow SOAR members to assemble the new winches. The biggest job was to switch out the Real Balls from the Wade winches to the new winches. I will have a web page up on the LSF site by the end of the week chronicling the winch builds. With that said, LSF is selling the Wade winches to help underwrite the costs of the new equipment. The winches have been reassembled and all but one are in an operable state (special deal to anyone interested in the fixer-upper). $300 per winch, delivered at the Soaring Nats. Includes foot pedal, battery cable and ground-mounted turnaround. We will not ship (too heavy, too expensive), but if you are interested in a winch and you know someone coming to Muncie, ask them if they would transport it back for you. And, of course, anyone wishing to make a donation to the winch fund would also be appreciated. There are already a number spoken for, I hope to see all the Wade winches go to the good homes they so rightly deserve. Please reply to me off-list or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the bandwidth. Tom Kallevang Wheeling, IL LSF President & Webmaster LSF #303 Level V #103 AMA L292 SOAR (Chicago) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
