Just a suggestion, but if you have fix it, why not just update to something more modern and available. Cy Rahm had an old garage full of old bikes and wheels that he used to build these things. For the way things looked in his shop, he did turn out really fine winches and retrievers.
Jerry Miller. SOSS Medford, OR
At 05:53 PM 3/21/2005, James R MacLean wrote:
Sunday our club is having a monthly contest and this time it is sailplanes. I have been promoting glider flying in our club for about the last five years and the club contests now draw about 20 souls who are getting much more competent with their planes. It was a nice day and no one broke anything. Most made their times and all had a good time.
But, on saturday we checked out the equipment and the retreiver bicycle sprocket bail was broke! This is a Rham retreiver which has given us good service for about five years. No problem I think. Just go down to Bob's bicycle shop and buy a new one. Oops. They laugh and say where did you get that old timer! Some time later, the new sprocket bearing is ready with their help and some luck looking in the back of some of their junk drawers. We are OK for now. Where do you go to get an old time front sprocket or at least some new ball bearings to rebuild the sprocket? And the 9/16 " thin open end wrench needed to tighten the locking nuts.
Advice and thoughts appreciated. Jim MacLean, Melbourne, FL
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