[TheForge] RE: Fire place crane

Mon Dec 23 06:30:01 2002

It sounds like your bottom mount is holding most of the weight rather than
just keeping it vertical.  If there is any "slop" in the top mount, the
center of gravity can get to one side or the other of verticalk causing it
to swing in that direction.

Walt
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Date: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: [TheForge] RE: Fire place crane

>Am having a problem with a fire place crane Iv'e made for
>a client. Seems the crane does not want to stay in any
>one position. It is free swinging, mostly swinging out of the
>fireplace, worse with weight on it.
>
>Have made a few in the past and have always supplied the
>mounts myself, made from flat bar with 90 degree ends with
>punched or drilled holes at both ends, holes off vertical in
>order to keep crane boom over the fire.
>
>This crane had to be made to fit existing brackets set into the
>brickwork, holes had been torch cut, (not very round and
>nearly perfectly vertical) Am currently making a modification
>plate for bottom bracket to cant the vertical bar forward at the
>bottom.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions before I go back to the clients?
>
>Thanks
>
>Ray Noble
>Oriole Forge
>
>Never have had this problem before, 'corse thats what the Old
>Farmer said when his mule died " He ain't never done that before". :^)
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