Made from a garage door cable drum, garage door cable, brearing pillow blocks, 1" 0.120 wall tube, 9/16 shafting, and an amazon special awning roller. Its not sketchy at all, nope. Seriously though, don’t stand under it.
Made from a garage door cable drum, garage door cable, brearing pillow blocks, 1" 0.120 wall tube, 9/16 shafting, and an amazon special awning roller. Its not sketchy at all, nope. Seriously though, don’t stand under it.
Thanks! The cable is supposedly rated to 350lbs BUT the worm drive awning box is rated to ??!¿Lbs. It held me + the shelf load and my tools as a “proof load”. I am looking into adding a spring loaded latch of some kind so it hooks in automatically but I don’t have that 100% figured out yet.
There are more points of failure there than the cable snapping.
This needs some redundant safety if you expect to ever walk or stand under it.
No question there. I’m working out how to do a spring loaded pin or latch system.