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Light Bulb Replacement
To prevent
damage to light,
do not operate light for longer than 15
minutes.
1.
Remove the two screws that hold the lens
against the winch cover.
2.
Remove gasket and inspect for tears or
dam-age, replace if necessary.
3.
Rotate the expired light bulb a 1/4 turn or
90 degrees inside the clips and pull out.
4.
Replace with new light bulb and reinstall
gas-ket, lens and hardware. The light bulb
is
a 212-2 automotive bulb.
Operating Instructions and Replacement Parts List
Deckmate 25 Freefall Pontoon Windlass
Maintenance
Periodic maintenance to the Free Fall
Pontoon Windlass will help to extend the
service life of the equipment and the
following steps can be taken to do this.
Always disconnect power to the windlass
at the battery before
preforming any
maintenance on the unit.
1.
Lubricate the gear train with a lithium
grease at the beginning of each boating
season.
2.
Lubricate the shaft on the davit roller with
a small amount of lithium grease at the
beginning of each boating season.
3.
Inspect the anchor line at the beginning of
each boating season.
Replace the 3/16”
diameter, 3 strand nylon rope if it is frayed,
cut or kinked. When replacing the rope refer
to the following
instructions
.
Anchor Line Replacement
Make sure that the windlass is in the free fall
mode of operation
Next, disconnect the
power to the windlass at the battery.
Locate
the portion of the rope that inserts through the
hole of the rope spool.
Push on this end so
that the knotted portion of rope on the
opposite side of the flange is pushed out of
the counter bore and is exposed.
Take a thin
screwdriver or flexible piece of wire and pull
the knotted rope end out from between the
frame and rope spool flange.
Untie the knot
or cut the rope just below the knot and pull
the rope out of the spool.
Take the new rope and hold onto the non
looped end and throw the rope out into the
water.
Follow the illustration in Figure 22 to
install the rope onto the spool.
Note: The illustrations in Figure # depict the
rope spool unattached to the wind-lass for
clarity purposes. The rope spool can be left
assembled to the windlass when replacing
the rope.
Reconnect the power to the windlass at the
battery
.
Finally, wind the rope onto the rope
spool while being careful to maintain even
wraps of rope as it winds.
PULL THE
END OF ROPE
THROUGH AND
TIE END IN
KNOT
ROPE WINDS ONTO
THE SPOOL OVER THE
TOP
PULL KNOT
FIRMLY INTO
PLACE IN
THE COUN-
TER BORED
RECESS OF THE
FLANGE
INSERT END
OF ROPE INTO
HOLE IN ROPE
SPOOL
OUT TO ANCHOR
ROPE
SPOOL
ROPE
Figure 22
