Including being a place to clamp glue ups when you need a long skinny and flat surface!
Including being a place to clamp glue ups when you need a long skinny and flat surface!
4-post lifts, combined with a Miata and a tow hook, make for great air-drying racks for nomex suits. :)
What ya buildin over dere?
is that a subaru brat?
In reply to Dieselboss15 :
Middle car? I think that's his Fiat X1/9
Yeah x1/9. Named Ron Burgundy, because someone long ago painted Ron in script on the b pillar. If you zoom in on the pic you can almost see it.
I'm building a 4 ft wide closet door (sliding barn door mechanism) for our bedroom. That is the first of 4 outer frame panels I'm gluing up before I fill in the middle with plywood and decorations. I'd really like the door to be sort of flat when complete so that's why I wanted something solid to clamp to. We will see if it works.
Ron has quite a few more boxes on him than when I was there
In reply to mtn (Forum Supporter) :
Truth. Most of those boxes are empty and waiting for me to recycle. I was saving them since I've been boxing and selling stuff that's not making me happy anymore, but I'm about done with that for a while, so I'll save a couple big ones for CAD and send the rest along.
Door is finally done and installed. It is arrow straight for now, hopefully the humidity of the summer doesn't wreck it.
Guess which guy installed the rail at 84 1/4 inches instead of 84 3/4 inches and had to cut 1/2 inch off the bottom of his brand new door? GRRR!!!
Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:Guess which guy installed the rail at 84 1/4 inches instead of 84 3/4 inches and had to cut 1/2 inch off the bottom of his brand new door? GRRR!!!
I'm guessing it wasn't Ron.
We have been looking at Clayton homes (trailer houses) as a shortish term living arrangement, and for some reason they love these sliding barn doors as a cover for the pantry. It slides across a section of recessed countertop when you open the pantry, and in every trailer we saw one in, it slowly slides back across to the pantry side. Probably gives just about enough time for you to get completely engrossed in sorting the stuff on the shelves and crack your head on the edge as you step back out
In reply to travellering :
ouch! This one is completely level (and has the bonus of being connected to something else that doesn't move) so the door doesn't slide unless you push it.
How long before you forget you have something plugged into the outlet and go to open the door? ;)
I like barn doors. I've built a couple to deal with doorways that aren't easily closed otherwise. Our Realtor (TM) got all excited when she saw the one in the last house when we went to sell, apparently they're a thing at the moment.
As for the uses of the two-post lift, I have used a car on a lift as a press to, umm, reshape a seat that needed to be narrower. Put seat on floor, lower car on to seat, seat gets narrower. Do not attempt. But it worked. I'm going to have to keep the "lift as long skinny flat clamping surface" idea in mind.
Ive hung a hammock from my 4 post before. Also used as a table when I didnt have any cars in that bay. Lots of uses.
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