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PSpirine

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:13 PM Reply With Quote
Hanging an engine hoist..

All,

I've just bought myself an Aldi electric hoist - nice bit of kit. My dilemma is how to hang it. Hopefully someone here will have a clever solution:

I've got an 8x4" beam spanning across the garage, so I'd like to hang it off that, directly or indirectly.


The hoist mounts are two U clamps, the opening of which is 2" (accepts both round and square profile), and the bolt hole centres are 9cm apart.


Any ideas must involve only bits purchasable from B&Q/Jewsons/ebay (i.e. I can't cut/make anything out of steel), and must be *proper* locost!

Thanks,

Pavs

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PSpirine

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:20 PM Reply With Quote
Incidentally, I've got a lot of 6x2" wood that is waiting to be used if there's any way of adapting that!


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zilspeed

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:20 PM Reply With Quote
Here's how mine is mounted.

Those are skateboard wheelbearings off ebay.

Hoist in position LHS
Hoist in position LHS







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froggy

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:25 PM Reply With Quote
cant help with your problem but i bought one a while back and with the cable doubled it lifted my saab engine/box no problem around 250kg. i use a scaffold tube running opposite to my roof joists 6x3 and move the car out of the way once lifted.





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PSpirine

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:25 PM Reply With Quote
Cheers for that, but that won't work in mine unfortunately.

My beam runs across the garage, not lengthwise, and it's by itself (i.e. I can't span anything between it and another beam)

Thanks,
Pavs

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JoelP

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:30 PM Reply With Quote
can you drill steel tube? If so, attach the hoist to about 2 foot of 2" square tube, drill a few holes, and simply use massive wood screws to hold it up to the beam. I mean about 6" 12g screws.






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PSpirine

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:42 PM Reply With Quote
I can drill steel indeed, and that was my first idea, but I have to say I'm not 100% confident in hanging the whole thing off screws going Up into the beam without any sort of positive support!

Cheers, keep em coming!

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Chippy

posted on 27/2/11 at 04:59 PM Reply With Quote
I don't have a posh electric hoist, just a Terfor winch, but the way I have mine fitted would be just as good for a leccy one. I fitted a piece of 50mm x 50mm x 6mm angle to the bottom of a joist, (100 x 50), which crosses the garage side to side and screwed it up every 8" with 3" No 12 screws, then fitted a hoop to the middle to attach the hoist. This has been used several times to lift the Cosworth V6 fitted in my car, ( bloody heavy lump). Will get a picture and attach it so you can see what I mean. HTH Ray

Hoist
Hoist


[Edited on 27-2-11 by Chippy]





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coozer

posted on 27/2/11 at 05:23 PM Reply With Quote
Mine runs on 2 2" angles welded together, bit of steel channel and 8 50kg castors from ToolStation



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