[DeTomaso] Hoists

[Mike Thomas]

 . . . or concrete.   Friend has a sailboat with a hull of thin cast mesh
reinforced concrete.
Mike Thomas

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Of Will Kooiman
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:04 PM
To: Rob Dumoulin
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Hoists

Lots of things don't make sense, but they work. Think about how long it took
for people to accept that ships made of steel could float.

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On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:

> 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.a
>>>> sp<
>>> 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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