Lewmar windlass repair

[Dutch01527]

I have a Lewmar Pro horizontal windlass and a lack of concentration on the up switch resulted in a broken drive shaft. Lewmar sell a service kit but it costs about £400 for the shaft and a few replacement gears and bits and pieces. Add fitting on to that and it is not really worth repairing. I am reluctant to buy another give Lewmar’s pricing policy and general apathy in their technical service department.

The shaft that is broken is probably less than £10 of stainless and the thought occurred to me that a good traditional engineer might be able to machine a solution.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a windlass repair engineer?

 

[vyv_cox]

Where are you?

 

[Dutch01527]

Boat is in Dartmouth, I live near Cheltenham.

I can remove the windlass and have it shipped if required.

Thanks

 

[vyv_cox]

Cannot help with anyone local to either of your addresses but I would suggest you contact Lake Engineering in Poole Lake Engineering Ltd. A top class company who do all types of machining. Although I would imagine there to be a similar company in Dartmouth.

 

[Dutch01527]

Thanks Vyv. I will call them.

Love your site by the way, I just extended my anchor chain using a c link following your research.

 

[Boathook]

I have a Lewmar Pro horizontal windlass and a lack of concentration on the up switch resulted in a broken drive shaft. Lewmar sell a service kit but it costs about £400 for the shaft and a few replacement gears and bits and pieces. Add fitting on to that and it is not really worth repairing. I am reluctant to buy another give Lewmar’s pricing policy and general apathy in their technical service department.

The shaft that is broken is probably less than £10 of stainless and the thought occurred to me that a good traditional engineer might be able to machine a solution.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a windlass repair engineer?

I suspect that if you broke the shaft the associated gears may well have damage as well.

 

[vyv_cox]

Thanks Vyv. I will call them.

Love your site by the way, I just extended my anchor chain using a c link following your research.

Were you able to buy a Crosby link? They seem to be in short supply at present.

 

[ean_p]

Cannot help with anyone local to either of your addresses but I would suggest you contact Lake Engineering in Poole Lake Engineering Ltd. A top class company who do all types of machining. Although I would imagine there to be a similar company in Dartmouth.

Isn't there a member of this parish that takes on machining jobs....?

 

[Dutch01527]

Were you able to buy a Crosby link? They seem to be in short supply at present.

Yes, via the site mentioned on your site: Crosby G-335 Missing Link

Good service.