Disclosed is a hoist using a friction wheel to maximize horizontal movement of a load to be lifted while preventing a wire from deviating from a winding orbit while being wound on a wire drum, the friction wheel having a simplified configuration and being designed to stably support horizontal and vertical movable guide rollers. One end of the barrel connector is threaded onto the anode feedthru. The alkylated and crosslinked polymer salt comprises the reaction product of crosslinked polymers, or salts and copolymers thereof having amine containing repeat units, with at least one aliphatic alkylating agent.