Spot the welders dog
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Hi all...Hope you are all well?
Started a 'project' but have fallen at an early stage - but hopeful that herein lays the answers....
Proposed:
Lift car by way of four scissor action lifts under each wheel using a threaded bar arrangement [glorified scissor jacks].
Material = steel! , sizes unknown as yet.
Additional:
There is no room to 'drive' onto ramps. No room to attach 'bumper bar' and lift onto supports using a engine hoist. So static it has to be.
Constants:
Cars kerb weight is 1415kg [3120lb]
Variable:
Raised height would be nice to >600mm
I have seen a few 'adjustable' ramps on auctions sites, but cost is high, or raising vertically entails an arched motion ¬ not straight up ^ - sooooo..
...To determine construction material, how do I extrapolate the weight of each corner - Should I just 'half' the total, or divide by 4?
I have so many other questions, but hopefully I'll figure those when the time comes - I say 'I', I mean you lot
I have found this link (copyrighted) which supplies equations that may help once I get going http://www.engineersedge.com/mechanics_machines/scissor-lift.htm
Any kind soles able to assist a poor man in need?
Started a 'project' but have fallen at an early stage - but hopeful that herein lays the answers....
Proposed:
Lift car by way of four scissor action lifts under each wheel using a threaded bar arrangement [glorified scissor jacks].
Material = steel! , sizes unknown as yet.
Additional:
There is no room to 'drive' onto ramps. No room to attach 'bumper bar' and lift onto supports using a engine hoist. So static it has to be.
Constants:
Cars kerb weight is 1415kg [3120lb]
Variable:
Raised height would be nice to >600mm
I have seen a few 'adjustable' ramps on auctions sites, but cost is high, or raising vertically entails an arched motion ¬ not straight up ^ - sooooo..
...To determine construction material, how do I extrapolate the weight of each corner - Should I just 'half' the total, or divide by 4?
I have so many other questions, but hopefully I'll figure those when the time comes - I say 'I', I mean you lot
I have found this link (copyrighted) which supplies equations that may help once I get going http://www.engineersedge.com/mechanics_machines/scissor-lift.htm
Any kind soles able to assist a poor man in need?