- 1. Lift device to store factory hardtop (score: 1)
- Author: Don Manning <bn7@shaw.ca>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:04:39 -0700
- I am looking for a practical way of storing my hardtop in a garage that is already crowded. I am wondering about devising a pulley system from the ceiling of my garage that I could use to lift the ha
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00442.html (7,471 bytes)
- 2. Re: Lift device to store factory hardtop (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:50:20 -0700
- My Dad did this for the top on my Mom's '55 T-Bird. It's been a while, but if I recall, he made a cradle of polyester ropes. I think flat straps might work better. I don't know about stabilizing it
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00443.html (8,588 bytes)
- 3. Re: Lift device to store factory hardtop (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Hosmer <rahosmer@citlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:52:29 -0700
- I made such a lift for the shell of my (small) pickup - and that is MUCH worse than a Healey hardtop! Use good nylon rope and don't skimp on the pulleys either! I ran four ropes, and, due to the leng
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00445.html (7,614 bytes)
- 4. Re: Lift device to store factory hardtop (score: 1)
- Author: RobertH148@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:55:58 EDT
- I was able to use 4 single pulleys, each mounted on the ceiling of the garage above a corner of the hardtop where I could attach a loop of rope to a securing point. Each line then was fed through the
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00457.html (7,607 bytes)
- 5. Re: Lift device to store factory hardtop (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Carpenter <d.carpenter7@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:16:47 -0400
- There are commercial units available. Look and see how they made them and you can come up with something yourself. A hand crank boat winch off a boat trailer and couple pieces of metal or wood should
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00461.html (8,343 bytes)
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