PSpirine
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:13 PM |
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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
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:20 PM |
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Incidentally, I've got a lot of 6x2" wood that is waiting to be used if there's any way of adapting that!
Ta
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zilspeed
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:20 PM |
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Here's how mine is mounted.
Those are skateboard wheelbearings off ebay.
 
Hoist in position LHS
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froggy
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:25 PM |
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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.
[IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r187/froggy_0[IMG]
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PSpirine
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:25 PM |
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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
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:30 PM |
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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
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:42 PM |
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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
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 04:59 PM |
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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
[Edited on 27-2-11 by Chippy]
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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coozer
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| posted on 27/2/11 at 05:23 PM |
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Mine runs on 2 2" angles welded together, bit of steel channel and 8 50kg castors from
ToolStation
[Edited on 27/2/11 by coozer]
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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