Help! Setting up a new shop

[Farrell]

A picture is worth a thousand words: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=631

They also have electric chain "hoists" I have heard from folks that love them. I like the manual ones because you can soooo very easily move the plate up and down a zillionth of an inch at a time effortlessly, and with complete control.

I have wooden 2x4s in my shop ceiling - much like most houses with a flat ceiling in the rooms. I simply ran two 4x4s (spaced about six inches apart) across four of the two-foot-apart-spaced 2x4s, put a 1/4" steel plate on top of those, and drilled a hole in the steel plate to accept the mounting bolt from the chainfall (or chain hoist as Harbor Freight calls it). Then I epoxied it all together (except for the chainfall!).

The roof will fail before my hoist fails.

Hmmmp. Pleasant thought!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren Fisher" <fishwar@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: Help! Setting up a new shop


> Good idea Terry,
> What is a "chainfall"?  How did you mount it?
> Thanks,
> Warren
> 
> Farrell wrote:
> 
> >Looks great! I'll take two! When do I get it?
> >
> >My shop is 40X22 and I WISH is was at LEAST twice as large! Gee whizz, it looks to me like you have everything.....and then some. How about a plate hoist? I'm using a chainfall mounted in the ceiling - works terrific for me - can't really imagine anything better.
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >  
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Warren Fisher" <fishwar@earthlink.net>
> >To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:02 PM
> >Subject: Help! Setting up a new shop
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hey gang,
> >>My partner and I just ordered a 40X50 foot metal building to set up a 
> >>full-featured piano shop. 
> >>
> Warren Fisher- RPT Retired, Navy Retired, Slidell, Louisiana 
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