Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!!!
Chain fall yellow to match the chain fall of course. It is after all a part of the larger assembly.
I agree with this. Looks to be a yellow-orange maybe?
Some great color suggestions. Thanks all for your ideas.
I'd say we have co-winners here.
gasgas17 had the right idea referring to matching the lift to the color of the hoist (chain fall)...
...except I would call that orange, not yellow.
Thirdyfivepickup was the first person to actually use the color
orange, even though he referred to it as a yellow-orange. I will give them both credit since the color may appear differently on their computer monitors and my idea was to try to reasonably coordinate the color of the lift with that of the hoist.
That said...
...here it is and this is how it was installed.
It had to be raining the day I brought it back home, right?
At least the John Deere had a roof so I stayed reasonably dry.
The platform itself is around 500 lbs (227 kg).
Once the uprights were assembled, the pallet under the platform was removed and the structure placed on 1 1/2" (3.8 cm) diameter PVC pipe.
Here's a better look at the idler rollers.
Idler rollers provide a contact area on 2 surfaces. The face of the roller...
..and the side of the roller.
The idler roller bracket is bolted to the side of the platform. The large surface facing the camera is the skid plate.
These are the tracks the rollers move in or are "captured" in. Everything associated with the lift was powder coated the same color, the area lighting just makes it appear a different shade.
This is how the 2 opposing idler rollers are "captured" in the tracks, limiting side movement of the platform in 3 directions. The skid plates limit movement in a 4th direction.
The platform was rolled into place on the PVC pipe, it needed to lifted up high enough to remove the wood floor below it. To do that I had to rig up spacers on the lift beam to gain enough clearance between the wood floor and the bottom of the platform.
With the wood floor gone the lift was lowered into the basement and the lift beam re-assembled...
... into it's permanent position.
So here we are, glistening in powder coated glory. The lift itself is done, I still need to harden the bottom of the walls around the lift and fabricate and install a way to hold the lift hand control and the control's power cord. If you're at all still interested, stand by for those details.
Congratulations to
gasgas17 and
Thirdyfivepickup. To collect on free lunch at the...
...send me a PM and I'll make it happen. This offer is good indefinitely so whenever you find yourself in the area, be that several years from, just let me know.
Meantime Rich, lets see if we can't get together with you for lunch too!
Material Lifting Fool, Thomas
