At 04:09 PM 5/27/2002, Steve Meyer wrote: >The Winch Doc has the best. Tried mine out this weekend. Jim Bacus liked >it, hasn't seen a winch flex his ICON's wings in a while.
I actually had to tap the winch... I was flying my favorite "Das Boat" ICON which has stopped 4 man, 3 man, and even really good 2 man F3J tows in wind. I can usually stall or slow down a winch with this ICON. This winch just kept pulling, and we were flying in a steady 15mph wind! Steve was running 290lb braided and there was no stretch in this line, and there is no breaking it either... it was zippy. 8-) Steve was flying his Escape which also can load up a normal winch pretty good, especially in the wind we were flying in. At the end of the day Steve commented that he is going to need to put a warning sign on his winch or the winch newbies are going to be blowing up models. I smiled and said something like that will ruin all the fun... 8-) He is going to make up a little sticker with two black diamonds, any skiers reading this list will know what that means! All I can say is, the launches were tasty... (and my winch needs an upgrade now) Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level III ICQ 6997780 R/C Soaring Page at www.jimbacus.net RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
