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Lifting equipment is not the problem. It's the item being lifted. Very few options for grab points.
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If you have two long slings you could go down through the column and up the outside, on both sides. Your effectively lifting from the top then. It may lean to the front but can't go anywhere. Chains would work equally well, just wrap them with rags where they contact the painted surfaces.
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Ed - you have four bolt holes at the top of the casting that will give you a good, balanced point.
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(03-07-2016, 10:31 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Ed - you have four bolt holes at the top of the casting that will give you a good, balanced point.
I wish! That would make it easy but no bolt holes anywhere except the four base mounting holes. That's why I was considering using the turret spider and some bar stock. That would put the lifting point at the very top.
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(03-07-2016, 09:38 AM)f350ca Wrote: If you have two long slings you could go down through the column and up the outside, on both sides. Your effectively lifting from the top then. It may lean to the front but can't go anywhere. Chains would work equally well, just wrap them with rags where they contact the painted surfaces.
Greg,
The bottom is enclosed for coolant so no way to wrap slings down through the column and up the outside.
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Lifting using the access panel would cause this sort of tilt which makes me a bit uncomfortable. I think I'll go with the turret spider and bar stock method.
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