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Winches you can build
Rossi Lift 200/300 on www.f3x.no, constructed by Thomas Rössner, Germany:

Description 1 - Description 2 - Drawing drum - Drawing frame - Motors to use

"The Venture mk 2" - Gjermund Westad and Tor Midtlund's winch - pictures and complete set of drawings

Thanks to Gjermund Westad

Dennis Phelan's winch - drawing
A forum thread on winch building on RCgroups.com
 
Stuff for F3J
A short listing of equipment for f3J
 
Winches you can buy
ML winches, Europe
Flühs winches, Europe

Pictures and data for the Flühs G21 and G22 winch from rc-sailplane.com

Ober Flugmodellbau, Europe
Monkeytumble / Jay Deckers winch, USA

What is a winch anyway?

Soarhigh, Europe
Winchnz, New Zeeland
Frits van Bremen, Europe
Airstrike, Australia
Swedwinch, Europe
Little Big winch, USA
Winch kit from Superskeg.com, USA
 
Pictures of the famous Hollenbeck winch (not for sale at the moment)
Graupners new winch - nr 804 - after asking Philip Kolb, Germany:

Hi Erik!

With the Graupner winch I don't know any details about it. I saw one during the spring one year ago, which may have been an old one. This one didn't work well actually. It blockaded itself under the tension of the line. And above all these winches are definitely not constructed for F3B-use. The cables and contacts are far too weak for that, as the whole construction seemed to be. For club-use with gliders that don't build up a lot of tension they maybe O.K. 

But if you want to have a proper winch, which is worth the money i sincerely would prefer the winches made by Günther Ober. They are sufficiently strong and optimized for F3B.

All the best:

Philip