Steps wrote: What ratio? and a wide or narrow spool? Right ratio and can pull up with a drill, thu you have a wobble not a keel roller trailer so a toss up between getting drill, using putting away and the time for a short light turn of the winch. Wide spools take far less effort to wind up as the spool fills... or only have enough on the spool to what is needed, plus 1/2 meter. Rem do not lube the bushes with petroleum based oils/ greases. They eventually attack the plastic bushes. Back in the day, ppl used to hang potato sacks over the tyres to protect from the sun. I often wonder about this when visiting caravan/ camping parks.. even the over summer parked units dont have wheels covered.. This and excellent point Mac Most of the stuff above is 8/10yr maintenance.. Bearings, wheel nuts rollers, lanacoate etc are 6 and 12 month stuff. Clean up surface rust, longer term, if has been done before.. if not done means structural welding or replace. Gelcoat chips etc 12/ 12 month... more serious like transom screws, remove bung re seal etc 8/10yr. Hmm adding up cost 3 tins quaity galv paint $75 Keel strip $75 Resin / chop stand $35 Gelcoat $25 About 750ml solid lanacote (in shed stock) dont know $30? 1 X 4" grinding disc in shed stock) $3 ? 1 x sanding disk (in shed) $3 ? 500mm 10mm dowel (in shed) $5? GT18 5L $25 ? only used 10% if that. 9/16 Staples to re upholster side panels (in shed) Cloth, got spare when originally did the whole boat.. Total was $112 back then. $15 ? So $250.. $300 tops.. little bit of time, maybe 2x that sourcing replacing new trailer. Bit of maintenance certainly leaves a lot of cash left over for a lot of fuel.. As in 1000s of dollars of fuel. Then throw in peace of mind when towing and out on the boat... |
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