40QT ORBIT WINCH ™ INTRODUCTION Your Ronstan Orbit Series winch is ready to provide you with many years of easy sail handling and reliable service. Ronstan has been designing and manufacturing equipment for sailboats for more than 60 years. We are also known for our range of Andersen Stainless Steel Winches , recognised ®...
RA6402 WITH QUICKTRIM™ 40QT ORBIT WINCH ™ SAFETY NOTICES Read All Safety Notices and Product Manuals Do not install or operate this winch before reading and fully understanding the contents of this Product Manual. Stay Alert When Operating Winches are very powerful and have the potential to cause significant damage and/or serious injury if used improperly or without due caution and vigilance. Operators Must Be Trained Help prevent significant damage and/or serious injury by ensuring any person operating a winch has a thorough understanding of its proper operation and is aware of the potential hazards involved.
* 990871 spacer is tapered, must be installed with wide diameter towards SHOULD ACCURATE DIMENSIONS BE REQUIRED SUCH AS HOLE SPA base, narrow diameter up. PLEASE CONTACT RONSTAN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. Winch Pawl & Spring Kit RA710052 contains 8 pawls and 16 springs. Refer to the diagrams...
RA6402 WITH QUICKTRIM™ 40QT ORBIT WINCH ™ Installation Required for the installation: • Spanner, to suit mounting nuts. • 5x M6 or 1/4” Grade 316 stainless steel fasteners (length as required for deck thickness). Use of A4-70 DIN7991 hexagon socket cylinder head •...
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RA6402 WITH QUICKTRIM™ 40QT ORBIT WINCH ™ Step 3: Remove the drum: Grip the top of the drum assembly [7] with your fingers and pull vertically upward to remove it from the centre stem [18]. As the winch is not fixed to the deck yet, you may need to push gently with your thumbs against the central drive shaft [11] to separate the parts.
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™ About the QuickTrim ™ feature. QuickTrim™ is a patented innovation in self-tailing winches unique to Ronstan. It allows rapid easing of line tension without the need to remove the line from the self tailer. Your winch has been delivered from our factory so that it will operate only as a traditional two-speed self-tailing winch unless you enable the QuickTrim™...
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RA6402 WITH QUICKTRIM™ 40QT ORBIT WINCH ™ Optional enabling of QuickTrim ™ Step 1: Remove the self-tailing arm: Pull back the spring-loaded release latch [1.3] with a fingertip (1), then rotate the self-tailing arm [1] slightly in a clockwise direction (2) until it can be lifted clear of the winch (3). Then remove the closing plate [2] and closing washer [3].
Pawls should be inspected, and springs should be replaced every second year. It is important to use only genuine Ronstan or Andersen brand pawls and springs in your winch.
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The pawls should move smoothly, and automatically return to their normal position to engage within the gears. If the pawls do not work correctly replace the springs and check again. WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION & SUPPORT www.ronstan.com WARRANTY www.ronstan.com/warranty office@ronstan.dk...
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