rowan782 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Old store where I buy car parts is due to be demolished for new building. I had to get a picture of their freight lift (elevator) as I know it won't be used again. An old electric motor going into an old truck transmission is the backbone of the unit (homemade and handy). See if you can make sense of the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Can you take another with a flash attachment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan782 Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 I'll try tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jscheib Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Even for freight, I wonder what OSHA and local inspectors think of it?John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Aside from the legal aspects, it must have worked well enough that it survied until now. Nice!If it were for sale & if I had a place for it, I would consider it . Probably OK for a large private shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan782 Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 Located in southern Illinois. I can post down the road (six months or so) if you would like, if it becomes available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crusty Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Pretty well-done actually, a gearbox is a gearbox. A big machine shop where I used to work used a similar old transmission to spin the fly cutter on a vertical mill with a 10'x30' table. The operator would climb up on it and shift the trans to change head speeds for different materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibarlaw Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 My 1910 South Bend formaly a treaddle lathe had a 1 HP electric motor and 1930s Chevy truck transmission addapted to it. Had 18 forward speeds! Liggett Spring and Axle where I worked in 1973-74, had some early 1890s -1910s line shaft machines converted the same way. Except they mounted the motors on top of the head-stocks with the transmissions as final output. Heated the shift levers and were bent down for operator acces. Were used that way for over 50 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Make sure you check the motors' power supply. Some elevators use DC for the vastly superior speed control. Even with the trans you can't glide to an easy start or stop with AC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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