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.
Yep, they are as close to twins as I can make with my skills. Agreed on the piano hinges, gotta use what I had on hand. They seem to be okay so far but you know how stuff gets sneaky after a while.
The awning box is just a really shitty worm drive gear box, its “positive locking” either by design or by poor manufacturing. I.e. they don’t spin unless you spin the input shaft.
Really, there is probably less than 50 total lbs in the whole setup even when the tools are in it. Overhead loads just sketch me out in general.
Same, especially as a fellow practitioner of the dark arts of “this unrelated device looks fit for purpose.” We had some large purpose-designed overhead trays prefessionally installed above our garage door, and while they’re each rated for a pretty hefty load, first choice for what to put up there was always items that are not very dense for their size. I will mess with a lot of stuff, but fucking with HVAC, weight-loads on ceilings, or in-wall plumbing and electrical is not for me.
I did some sketchy napkin math and the load in the cable as is is ~30-75lbs depending on what is in the boxes and how its arranged assuming the box weight based on a half sheet of 5/8 plywood and 30-50lbs of stuff in it. I can live with that.
Hanging loads still make me nervous and I will be righing up some kind of safety pin/clip for these.