daverami
Explorer
Hi all,
I got interested in this fairlead while reading Scott's thread on the sub 50lb. Warn M8000, and also reading the discussions posted on the thread I started on synthetic rope.
I emailed Viking and have been corresponding with Thor Jonsson there. I would like to share what he has to say about their fairlead. He generously sent me a couple of pictures to share with everyone also. They will be expensive, but they sure look awesome.
Quote from Thor:
The complete roller fairlead is being priced out for production, the one you see on EP is a prototype I gave to Scott (owner of EP). We will start making them soon, most likely in the summer.
It would be interesting to get an idea of what colors people would mostly like. We found with our Hawse fairleads most people bought black anodized when they had a choice over clear anodized (silver). I have played around with various colors and black and silver are about the only colors that hold up to UV light and weather.
These fairleads are really nice, they are very light, about 25% of a regular roller fairlead. The pins are stainless steel, the housing is not only aluminum but also is specially designed so there is no way to slice a rope even if your vehicle is upside down. The aluminum is anodized, although we will most likely go with black anodizing. Notice on the first pic the rollers are outside of the ears (where the pins go through) on the stock ones its opposite which can be a problem if you are winching at an extreme angle.
By the way these fairleads will be rather expensive when compared to standard roller fairleads, probably around $200+/- and that is because of what goes into them. They contain the highest quality material and finishing. They are not only trick but they do offer functionality that the standard ones do not. i.e. lightweight and it is virtually impossible to cut the winchline on these.
If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc., I can pass them along to Thor.
I got interested in this fairlead while reading Scott's thread on the sub 50lb. Warn M8000, and also reading the discussions posted on the thread I started on synthetic rope.
I emailed Viking and have been corresponding with Thor Jonsson there. I would like to share what he has to say about their fairlead. He generously sent me a couple of pictures to share with everyone also. They will be expensive, but they sure look awesome.
Quote from Thor:
The complete roller fairlead is being priced out for production, the one you see on EP is a prototype I gave to Scott (owner of EP). We will start making them soon, most likely in the summer.
It would be interesting to get an idea of what colors people would mostly like. We found with our Hawse fairleads most people bought black anodized when they had a choice over clear anodized (silver). I have played around with various colors and black and silver are about the only colors that hold up to UV light and weather.
These fairleads are really nice, they are very light, about 25% of a regular roller fairlead. The pins are stainless steel, the housing is not only aluminum but also is specially designed so there is no way to slice a rope even if your vehicle is upside down. The aluminum is anodized, although we will most likely go with black anodizing. Notice on the first pic the rollers are outside of the ears (where the pins go through) on the stock ones its opposite which can be a problem if you are winching at an extreme angle.
By the way these fairleads will be rather expensive when compared to standard roller fairleads, probably around $200+/- and that is because of what goes into them. They contain the highest quality material and finishing. They are not only trick but they do offer functionality that the standard ones do not. i.e. lightweight and it is virtually impossible to cut the winchline on these.
If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc., I can pass them along to Thor.
