Yeah!, My turn, my garage
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Well my lift is finally installed. Took a little while to take the pictures and post them but here they are. It is a Ever Eternal lift ordered directly from china.
So here is the floor cut with my pipe already installed for the lines.
If someone wants a trick on how to bang the pipe in place, here is what i did. Long piece of copper pipe with a squeezed end. I am lucky i am in sand so the water diluted the sand and i was able to push the 2 1/2 pipe further and further. Just put the hose inside the pipe and move them together, the water is clearing the path and the mud is coming out with the flow of water.
Here is where the control box is going to go, cut the floor for it, you can see the pipe came just at the right place (a little luck helps sometimes). I had to get some new lines done because mine were too short. Had i known before i would have had EE make me some of the right length first. They charge like 25$ more to make them as you want, i had to pay close to 200$ in a local hydraulic shop for custom lines...
forms are now created, that was a lot of work and calculations.
pouring the concrete
luckily, the company had a small truck for the job, a big one couldn't make it pass the house.
control box installed in place
I made a custom table to hold the 1/2 steel plate in the middle, you can see it here
And we have lift off, projects already under way
Here is what it looks like once fully down, nothing in the way. The color difference on the racedeck is because i removed a portion to do the work and the rest is full of concrete dust from the cutting. Garage was a real mess after taking out the concrete.
All in all, i am very satisfied with the lift, it doesn't show when not in use, so no post in the way of my other bay and i can store many cars or keep the garage as a party place when needed. It is a LOT of work to install it properly though. If i had been smart enough, i would have thought about it before i pourred the concrete in the first place and it wouldn't have been such a job but a lift wasn't in my plans back then. As soon as i started working with it, i couldn't beleive how i did all those years without it. Man it feels good to only put a knee down to install the blocks and then everything is done at arm level. So nice, best investment ever.
So here is the floor cut with my pipe already installed for the lines.
If someone wants a trick on how to bang the pipe in place, here is what i did. Long piece of copper pipe with a squeezed end. I am lucky i am in sand so the water diluted the sand and i was able to push the 2 1/2 pipe further and further. Just put the hose inside the pipe and move them together, the water is clearing the path and the mud is coming out with the flow of water.
Here is where the control box is going to go, cut the floor for it, you can see the pipe came just at the right place (a little luck helps sometimes). I had to get some new lines done because mine were too short. Had i known before i would have had EE make me some of the right length first. They charge like 25$ more to make them as you want, i had to pay close to 200$ in a local hydraulic shop for custom lines...
forms are now created, that was a lot of work and calculations.
pouring the concrete
luckily, the company had a small truck for the job, a big one couldn't make it pass the house.
control box installed in place
I made a custom table to hold the 1/2 steel plate in the middle, you can see it here
And we have lift off, projects already under way
Here is what it looks like once fully down, nothing in the way. The color difference on the racedeck is because i removed a portion to do the work and the rest is full of concrete dust from the cutting. Garage was a real mess after taking out the concrete.
All in all, i am very satisfied with the lift, it doesn't show when not in use, so no post in the way of my other bay and i can store many cars or keep the garage as a party place when needed. It is a LOT of work to install it properly though. If i had been smart enough, i would have thought about it before i pourred the concrete in the first place and it wouldn't have been such a job but a lift wasn't in my plans back then. As soon as i started working with it, i couldn't beleive how i did all those years without it. Man it feels good to only put a knee down to install the blocks and then everything is done at arm level. So nice, best investment ever.
