On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 JNiolon@uss.com wrote:
> The web site for the monorail trolley thing is
> www.homemetalshopclub.org/projects/crane/crane.html.
>
> I liked it for the ingenuity he used also.. nice design and well executed.
> good example of designing the tool for the job. Plus he's got a pretty
> nice basement shop also..
nice shop and nice crane, but I dunno that I'd want to lift a ford fe with
it. I think to lift an engine I'd want the arc and boom (?) to be made
from a railroad rail. but then I'd worry about the ceiling supporting it.
shoot, as long as I'm designing a uber-shop in my head (we can't all be
inch, after all...), why not a scaled-down version of the crane you see in
shipyards? a center boom rides fore and aft on two rails on either side
and the hoist rides left and right on the center boom. get anywhere in
the shop you want with that thing, and the supports could even be built
into the walls. 'course, you'd practically have to build the shop around
it...
<sigh> john was right. even if I had the money to do it, I wouldn't have
the time.
scott
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