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Factor 55 ProLink Shackle MountVehicle recovery is tricky business, and without the right tools you're primed for failure. Factor 55 is an industry leader in the creation of recovery products and winch attachments. The ProLink is the first of it's time, attached to your cable with a simple but sturdy titanium pin, the ProLink offers a exponentially stronger, safer, and smarter connection than the traditional winch hook. Vehicle recovery is tricky and often risky business and
Vehicle recovery is tricky business, and without the right tools you're primed for failure. Factor 55 is an industry leader in the creation of recovery products and winch attachments. The ProLink is the first of it's time, attached to your cable with a simple but sturdy titanium pin, the ProLink offers a exponentially stronger, safer, and smarter connection than the traditional winch hook.Vehicle recovery is tricky and often risky business and traditionally securing your load happened with a winch hook. These hooks were designed to carry a load with a downward vertical force, this application is typically never needed in recovery work. More than likely you will find yourself pulling at odd angles with the danger of your winch hook securing pin breaking, bending, coming off and generally causing you a lot of pain and hassle. Factor 55, a group of Aerospace, Defense, and Semiconductor engineers, have a passion for off-roading and a drive to create quality products that solve unaddressed problems in the world of vehicle recovery.
The ProLink completely replaces the need for a traditional winch hook. CNC'd from lightweight billet 6061 aluminum, and engineered to hold astounding loads, the ProLink allows you to form a solid connection between your winch cable eye through the aid of a 5/8" titanium double shear pin. The base of the ProLink is fitted with a rubber stopper that stops the annoying and sometimes costly bump-bump-ding caused by a traditional winch hook. The stopper forms allows your ProLink to fit snugly against your Hawse or Roller fairlead. The front of the ProLink is where you can get down to business, allowing you to attach a 3/4" screw pin shackle into the precision mounting hole.
Check the list below for a seemingly endless amount of reasons to buy this superior product designed and manufactured here in the U.S.A.
Advantages over Winch Hook
- Screw Pin Shackles are up to 5 times stronger than conventional hooks
- Conventional Hooks are too small to safely fit both ends of a recovery strap
- Recovery straps cannot slip out of a shackle like they can with hooks
- Hook safety latches are not rated for loads and can tear recovery straps
- Conventional hook surfaces add higher stresses to recovery strap fibers, resulting in decreased strap ratings
- Shackles can be quickly removes and stowed away until needed for winching
- Hooks do not cinch neatly against fairleads and are prone to rattling and loosening
- Conventional winch hooks are designed for chains, not commonly used for recovery straps.
- Engineered, Tested and MADE IN THE USA
- Stress analyzed using COSMOS FEA and destructively tested for confirmation
- Billet Construction, Percision made from 6061-T6 Kaiser Aluminum round bar
- 16,000 pound max load rating
- Fits all steel cables and synthetic ropes up to 3/8" in diameter
- Fits eyes equipped with standard or tube thimbles to 3/8 inch diameter
- 1.2" shackle tab thickness virtually eliminates "shackle rattle"
- Massive 5/8" diameter carbon steel double shear pin- 6AI-4V Titanium upgradeable
- Optional EPDM "Rubber Guard" protects alloy Hawse fairleads- Rubber barb attachment
- Can be installed and removed in minutes, simple snap ring removal
- Cinches neatly against all types of fairleads , Hawse or Roller.
- Beautifully anodized and zinc plated in the USA
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★★★★★ 4
So very long….
Format: Paperback
Every time Yeltsin takes a nap? Paragraph. Bush mumbles something indecisive to Scowcroft? Boom—chapter!
I felt like I was experiencing the fall of the Soviet Union in real, agonizing time.
Look, it’s a fine book. If you’re going for a career in the foreign service, this is a good place to start. Otherwise, you can get a fine rendering of these events in much more concise form elsewhere.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2023
★★★★★ 5
P O W E R F U L .
Format: Paperback
The author summarized: "The ghost of the disappeared Soviet Union ... still haunts the imagination of contemporaries .... This amazing story teaches us not to trust in the seeming certainty of continuity and should help us prepare for sudden shocks in the future" (p. 439).
An engrossing in-depth eloquent analyses concerning the events and individuals affecting the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union. Moreover, the unforeseen Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, crystallized the horrors of a possible nuclear war. Thus, a new orientation to end the exorbitant arms race with the United States.
Further, General Secretary Gorbachev promulgated new reforms, including, relaxing travel restrictions in 1989: "... [T]he shock that thousands of Soviet people experienced when they crossed Soviet borders and visited Western countries .... For first-time Soviet travelers to the West a visit to a supermarket produced the biggest effect. The contrast between half-empty, gloomy Soviet food stores and glittering Western palaces with an abundant selection of food was mind-boggling.... This experience changed Soviet travelers forever" (p. 82).
At times, repetitive and somewhat confusing. For instance, U.S. President Bush needed Gorbachev's approval for his Iraq offense, which was initially described on Page 143, then inexplicably again, on Page 172. On another occasion, the author indicated that Yeltsin was influenced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's brochure "How To Rebuild Russia," on Page 150, which is again repeated, on Page 173. Scrupulous editing needed.
Notwithstanding such glitches, nonetheless, a fascinating detailed portrayal of the unexpected implosion of a superpower. Having read other books on the subject, if I had to select only ONE about the USSR collapse, I would choose this as the best.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Thought Provoking
Format: Kindle
I bought this book after I heard the author on a podcast. Growing up in the US we have been inundated with the story that the collapse of the Soviet Union was an inevitable triumph of liberal, Western values. I had my doubts. Even poorly run dictatorships can muddle along for years. What the author did was center Gorbachev in the story. He was the eye of the storm. It was the terrible combination of Gorbachev’s ambitious idealism and gross ineptitude that led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union. Unlike much of Marxist historical narratives which emphasize the forces of history; the author shows that it’s individuals who shape events and are shaped by them. A different person than Gorbachev could have turned the tide in a different direction and left us a different world than we have today. This is a history book that teaches lessons not just about the Soviet Union but about human history in general.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2025
★★★★★ 5
A compelling account of the fall of the USSR
Format: Kindle
Zubok describes blow by blow the series of decisions that sent the USSR towards disaster. Gorbachev, widely hated in Russia, comes across as principled but indecisive, ignorant of economics, and incapable of translating his worship of Lenin into coherent action. The book reads like a thriller despite the density of facts. Zubok is a pessimist, but his thesis is convincing.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Fascinating, an against the grain account of the perestroika era
Format: Kindle
Gorbachev is hailed as a hero in the West but the book tells the story of a meek, naive individual that precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union creating suffering and an a!most unprecedented calamity.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2025
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