[DeTomaso] Hoists

Rob Dumoulin rob at dumoulins.net
Thu Jun 20 18:48:31 EDT 2013


Sean said "the building you sitting in uses the same math". Was that
statement meant to instill confidence or terror? There appears to be a fine
line there.
On Jun 20, 2013 3:00 PM, "Sean Korb" <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:

> It takes some faith in the mathematics, but there is a description of the
> engineering safety in the "What makes it so safe" link.
>
> Frank Loyd Wright famously tried to put up his famous cantilevered support
> beams but the inspectors and city engineers told him he was insane.  He
> went to an empty field and had concrete poured to the specifications that
> he had calculated.  It works.  And he built his buildings after all.
>
> I just barely passed my stressed vector analysis courses in college so take
> anything I say with a grain of salt, but the building you are sitting in
> uses the same math.
>
> sean
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Jeff Detrich <jjdetrich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dick Koch <arkoch at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > My choice is the Max Jax for my two car garage.
> > >
> > > http://www.dannmar.com/**dannmar-products/two-post-**lifts/maxjax.asp<
> > http://www.dannmar.com/dannmar-products/two-post-lifts/maxjax.asp>
> > >
> >
> >
> > I still don't see how you keep this from tilting to one side or the
> other?
> > Even after you attach floor anchors and balance the car on it, there just
> > doesn't seem to be enough width in the base of each column to keep it
> > steady. I'm sure I'm missing something???
> >
> > Jeff
> > 6559
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