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Motorbike Lift Bench
kayzed1:
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Would you please give dimensions when you have worked them out?
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The bench top is going to be about 450mm wide by 2m long.
To be honest, one of the real reasons for making my own was because the available ones were a bit wide. My shop isn't that big, and these things are a real space hog anyway.
It will be just a bit wider than the footprint of my bike's main stand, so that will be enough.
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I see in your name.... one-ROD and the space HOG... does that mean the bike has a V in it's name as in HOG VE ROD? i rode one once..
almost pulled my arms out of the sockets :bugeye:
CHA5:
I bought one of this design 15yrs ago & rate it as the 2nd best thing I ever bought :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1000lb-Hydraulic-Bike-Motorcycle-motorbike-Workshop-Lift-Bench-workbench-XL-Red-/380300709360
When not in use mine is stored standing upright against the shop wall.
A few mates have built their own & there are plenty of free plans & build logs to guide you. One thing that I consider essential with these is a means of locking the table rigid. When your pride & joy is up there it can make you very nervous when it starts rocking back & forth every time you lay on the hands !
My ultimate self build would be flush with the shop floor & either air or electric push button lift.
one_rod:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on November 18, 2016, 10:02:26 AM ---Hi One Rod
How is the lift going to work?
Eric
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By the remorseless power of hydraulics. :thumbup:
Plan A was to use a trolley jack, as I thought that would keep things simple.
However, because the lift arm on the jack and the PM arms on the bench are different lengths, making it work properly leaves you with a couple of design choices.
First is to allow the jack to do what trolley jacks do, roll backwards and forwards as it raises and lowers, to compensate for the different radii of motion. This means having a solid base or some kind of trackway in the base frame, capable of taking the full load. It also seemed to mean that the fully-lowered height was more than I was happy with.
The other choice was to remove the wheels and weld the jack chassis into the base frame, with the lift arm pivot exactly concentric with one of the PM pivots. All good unless the jack ever failed and needed fixing. The only way would be to cut the whole thing apart.
I guess neither problem would be insurmountable, with enough ingenuity. But it still seemed to be making things more complicated, not less. Besides, by then I'd found this on Ebay.
8 tonne lift capacity and an impressive ram extension.
Seems as though it might simplify things considerably. Still left me with one really puzzling question, though.
How do the Chinese manage to make this thing, ship it half way around the planet, and drop it on my doorstep, all for £24.99? :scratch:
Will_D:
Can you post us a link please - that looks very useful?
one_rod:
--- Quote from: Will_D on November 20, 2016, 03:31:12 PM ---Can you post us a link please - that looks very useful?
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There you go...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271634585363?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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