Synthetic Winchline Fairlead Material. Aluminum or UHMW?

Synthetic winchline fairlead

  • Aluminumumummm

    Votes: 15 75.0%

  • UHMW

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Roller

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • AGAIN with the winches? pfffffffffft. never use one. EVER.

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • Total voters
    20
Tech11

Tech11

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I found my synthetic winchline from masterpull.com. It came with a self locking safety hook so I'll use that for a while, instead of unsplicing and putting on a safety thimble.

Anyway I'm deciding on my fairlead now. I was going to get a UHMW fairlead from skyoffroad for 25 bucks.

They say its the same material as synthetic winchline, if there was a cut/slice in the fairlead it wont cut the winch line since it's the same material, but then I've read posts in forums where people have said it's been cut like butter on extreme side pulls but I can figure if they're using synthetic cable or not, or of it's operator error or what.

Seems to be about a 50/50 split on love/hate on the UHMW fairleads.

Then there's aluminum. Been around forever. Cant seen synthetic cutting it, ever. Costs more, but I'm not concerned about the price, I'm wanting to go hassle/trouble free. I was just thinking that the UHMW was the same thing as the synthetic winchline what could happen?

Don't want a roller fairlead.

opinions/ideas/suggestions please.

Oh, I got 100' of line, someone said "yeah that'll be fine, after you break it once or twice it'll be perfect :lol:"

We shall see.

http://www.sky-manufacturing.com/new/detaproduct.php?id=168 -Link to UHMW fairlead
 
Been using a UHMW for a long time and it works fine for me. If I had to buy another fairlead, I would consider the Daystar UHMW rollers to replace the steel rollers in an old roller fairlead then you have the best of both worlds. .
 
braxton357 said:
How often do you run your fairlead into stuff?
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On my bumper a hawse would be set back behind my d-rings/shackles.

I'm replacing my roller fairlead since it got fubared pulling my jeep over during the recovery on my recent flop. I thought about those rollers, but after that happened I was kinda not wanting to have another roller fairlead.
 
The uhmw will cut on a hard pull where the line builds up heat rubbing tight against the fairlead... Many ppl run into this when using it as a suck-down winch too.

The downside of aluminum is burs & cuts cutting the rope
 
Do most people just run the line over to a shackle/d-ring and bump the winch tight?

Got my winchline. Aluminum fairlead on the way. Thanks all.:beer:

Has anyone here BROKEN an aluminum fairlead with synthetic line? I saw a pic, but it was a cheap fairlead. Just wondering.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
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The downside of aluminum is burs & cuts cutting the rope
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x2. You can't ever use steel line in an aluminum fairlead if you're going to pull with winch rope. Other than doing that, the aluminum fairlead would need to get bashed into some rocks (difficult because of placement) to scratch/marr/cut/gouge it
 
I need to unspool my line, and grind the opening on my bumper on the bottom as my line makes contact on the bottom before it contacts the fairlead.
 

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I know this is a little old, just randomly came across it...
... but instead of messing w/ the hole you made, there are some hawse-style fairleads that have the holes offset so they sit "down" a little farther (so not centered top/bottom). You could just use one of those flipped over, no need to grind your hole.

I actually have one, PM me if you want it.
 
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