TZi World winch mount

[BigSki]

I've put a few hours into this mount to be used on my 1/6th scale Jerp. I previously had a 1/8th scale 3R Racing winch on the 14 lb. pig, needless to say it didn't do a whole lot. After watching the Vid from TZi World on his winches, I knew I needed one them. Supershafty is carrying them now, so I snagged one.

Once I opened the envelope, I was impressed with the overall fit and finish. Nothing but quality with this product. I set out to see how close the mounting bolt pattern was between the 2 different products. They were off enough that I had to do something to keep a clean install look. This mount I designed uses the existing holes from the 3R racing winch, plus it incorporates a fair lead of sorts.

I plan on printing out one of these in a few days. I'll post up on how well it works.

[Tzi]

Good work...
How does it fit into the chassis?

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by Tzi

Good work...
How does it fit into the chassis?

Thanks! Here's a few pics. I have to make a few more minor tweeks to the 3D model, then print another part. The inter-active 3D modeling has really shown what a time saver it is to be able to "assemble" parts on the screen to find small issues before anything is made.









The winch looks tiny on this big Jerp!

[Tzi]

Pics not working...

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by Tzi

Pics not working...

How about now? They were linked to an album that was set on "private".

[Harley]

I would have made the area around the top of that fairlead quite a bit thicker for when you are in a nose down situation. I like the principal of the idea though

[Tzi]

Very cool.

[greenjk]

Looks good any reason why you have the fairlead so high, could you run the winch line off the bottom of the spool and lower it.

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by Harley

I would have made the area around the top of that fairlead quite a bit thicker for when you are in a nose down situation. I like the principal of the idea though

Originally Posted by greenjk

Looks good any reason why you have the fairlead so high, could you run the winch line off the bottom of the spool and lower it.

This is one of the areas that I re-did on the model. I just sent the .stl file to the printer at the Fab Lab, hopefully it will get printed tomorrow. I'll post a pic of the V.2 as soon as I get it in my hands.

Now I need to find some Dacron fishing line in the 150-200 # test range to spool up on this bad boy.

I decided to spool off of the top because the drum fits snugly into the curved shape in the housing on the bottom side. I didn't want the line to rub against the housing, even though it has a nice smooth fillet surface in that area.

[BigSki]

Version 2.





I'm liking this. I'm going to send the file to Shapeways and see how much to print one in metal. There's too much work to use the mill to make just one copy.