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[skulldrifter]

Just a quick one to ask if anyone has made a pully system to stow thier track in a shed or car port roof and if so how? Thanks

[pitlane3]

Welcome on board SD,
have alook through this tread,

http://www.auslot.co...?showtopic=3093
it got Sax's lifting setup.
Otherwise just go through the members home track section, tonnes of info there.
I am working on something like that myself, but is not ready yet.
Will have pulleys and elec motors.

[schuey19]

I was about to post the same link! Sax's post does show the ups and downs of a pulley system

Maybe the mods can move this thread to the track folder for greater exposure??

Edited by schuey19, 27 December 2008 - 07:26 AM.

[old punk]

skulldrifter, on Dec 25 2008, 12:17 AM, said:

Just a quick one to ask if anyone has made a pully system to stow thier track in a shed or car port roof and if so how? Thanks

I don't know how to set up the pulleys. But to save weight on my next track I'm going to use two inch thick foam sheeted in a thin plywood vainer. A carpenter friend used this method to make platforms for his scaffolding. It would hold an incredible amount of weight, and was very light. It held two 200 pound men and equipment and one man could lift it in to place by himself. It seems to me the lighter I can make my track and table the more ridged it will be and there is less chance for a bad accident.

[skulldrifter]

Thats a great idea, I'll be looking into that for shore.

[GTR XU-1]

Skulldrifter,

I have a few pics of my set up

What I have done is off two seperate shed steel columns placed a manual winch on each. The wire then runs up to the top of the column through a pulley (which is actually a double pulley - because the wire is branched into two up the column). From there the wires run along the roof structure to a secondary pulleys on the roof structure exactly above where I want to pick the track table up from. The wire then is verticle to the table and pretty much out the way when racing.

Tips:

Always use double clamps/ crimps to secure the wire rope

Use rated ratchet straps (eg 500kg) as a secondary restraint when the table is in the roof so in case the pulley system does fail - it doesnt come crashing down as it unfortunately did for sax.

Use good quality pulleys / wire rope and not the cheapo bunnings drop forged style.








I have posted these on another thread somewhere but it was a bit too deep in the thread.

Hope it helps a bit

[skulldrifter]

Thanks for that, looks great.

[Mexico 2000]

skulldrifter, on Jan 10 2009, 06:11 PM, said:

Thanks for that, looks great.

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