I'm not familiar with the quick draw, is that the little one way rope clips? Functions like a ratchet or check valve but for rope?
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.
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.
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.
Pocket hole screws and glue for the base cabinets. Machine screws and nuts for the hinges. Hex bolts and lock nuts for the winch setup. Its all roughly comparable to what is used on garage doors.
Nah, just sanders, sandpaper, router bits. Stuff like that.
No question there. I'm working out how to do a spring loaded pin or latch system.
Thanks! The cable is supposedly rated to 350lbs BUT the worm drive awning box is rated to ??!¿Lbs. I am looking into adding a spring loaded latch of some kind so it hooks in automatically but I don't have that 100% figured out yet.
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.
I'd totally rock a real physical winamp as a mp3 player.
Mine are too little for now for much more but I have gotten them successfully to use our Emby server for videos and music. Calling that a win.
I'll check that out, I already do dairy-free except cheese and butter but I will be damned if I avoid onions.
I recently dug out my old Creative Zen Vision W but being circa 2006, the battery was roached. You can't get replacements anymore but since the battery is removable, I found some cheap pouch cells that were the right thickness and soldered them to the existing connector/charge control board.
The original was 1650mah iirc, the new ones are allegedly 2500. From some basic testing, I believe its more than it used to have. $15 all in, considering no one makes these anymore and NOS ones go for $190, I'm happy to have 2 functional ones again.
I had to find the damn chuck key first, to change the drill bit out, to let me drill the hole in the chuck key, so I could attach the chuck key to the lanyard holder, so I wouldn't lose the chuck key again... All in, it was a 20 minute search for a 30 second operation but that says more about me than it does about the project...
Then you are Angus Young (old)