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#2710 - 02/23/12 05:56 PM Rope gripper ?
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 9 Upndown stranger
Upndown stranger Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 9 Northeast USA	Has anyone changed the plungers on a rope gripper?

#2717 - 02/23/12 11:45 PM Re: Rope gripper ? [Re: Upndown]
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 885 jkh 4 Ever Learning.
jkh 4 Ever Learning. Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 885	Sorry no. Make and model? Make good choices, JKH

#2719 - 02/24/12 12:47 AM Re: Rope gripper ? [Re: Upndown]
Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 53 selfproclaimed journeyman
selfproclaimed journeyman Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 53 Big Apple	Yes... on a HW... Pain in the ass. Watch out for the spring tension Even a broken clock is right twice a day

#2720 - 02/24/12 02:54 AM Re: Rope gripper ? [Re: selfproclaimed]
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 9 Upndown stranger
Upndown stranger Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 9 Northeast USA	Yeah it's a HW, spring tension is exactly what I was concerned with. I've only installed and set them up, never tore one apart.

#2724 - 02/25/12 02:12 AM Re: Rope gripper ? [Re: Upndown]
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Upndown stranger Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 9 Northeast USA	So I swapped out the plungers on the HW rope gripper today. I meant to grab the model# but forgot. It's the big one, two plungers, three springs on a nasty freight. Not as bad as I thought, Took about 3 1/2 hrs. Three items I wish I had but didn't, hammer, drift pin, about a ten inch long 5/32 allen wrench. All in all I'd say it went pretty well.

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