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.
Is there a reason you didn’t mount it to the ceiling? That way the force would stay mostly vertical.
The way you have it, the force to raise it changes from mostly vertical to nearly horizontal. That horizontal force is going to be huge because it’s mostly just pulling instead of working against gravity.
Think of trying to raise a weight in the middle of a rope by stretching it out horizontally instead of just lifting it straight up.
You could also just mount a pulley on the ceiling.
I need to move the winch by a couple of inches but the idea is that the winch cable is tangent to the mounting point on the cabinet, and the winch cable is vertical when the cabinet is flush to the ceiling. I just pre-mounted everything before I had the winch spacing figured out so its off by 2ish inches.
Right on brother