My projector took a shit, and this 65" TV was half what I paid for the projector, and you don't have to turn the lights off to see it.
So now I'm building another little crane for my shop, for the sole purpose of lifting the box off of the TV.
I had a lot of design requirements.
1. I didn't want to go up into the attic to frame up support for a pulley on the ceiling. It's freakin' cold up there. So that means a crane boom off the wall.
2. If I decide to get another projector, I still wanta be able to use the screen. So the crane has to be able to swing fljat against the wall, behind the projector screen which is 5" from the wall.
3. Gotta be able to lift the TV itself because I don't have anyone to help me lift it up where I'm gonna put it. Sarah is too female, my dad's too old, and my neighbor Jimmy is too dumb.
But the TV box only weighs about as much as a gallon of milk, even with the wood I added inside to spread out the lifting force from the hook.
I have already hung from the crane boom myself, holding onto it at the reinforced joint halfway down the boom where the gusset attaches.
The boom itself is just a 1x4 split into two 1x2's.
Here's the spool part. All I gotta do at this point is screw it to the post below the crane. But I'm gonna polyurethane it first.
Not that it needs to be pretty, but because it'll be easier to keep clean.
The only lathe I have is my grandpa's and it's old and just uses little pointy things to hold the workpiece.
To make this spool, from a piece of a 4x4, I had to literally invent a type of power tool I've never seen or heard of before but probably already exists somewhere..
Cross-sliding drill press vise. Router bit. Temporary axle holder. All I had to do was slowly rotate the wood and let the router bit eat it into a cylinder, moving the vise sideways incrementally.
Then sandpaper. Then put it back in the drill press all sanded smooth as if the router bit made it that clean...
Them dowel ends, the center one pins it to the axle. The other 4 hold the two halves of the spool together.
Before I made the cylinder, first I cut the 4x4 into two 2x4's along the stress line where it looked like it would eventually split. Then I glued it back together, minus the internal stresses.
To attach the end of the rope, I removed the center pin and fed the rope through.. I twisted the dowel til it pinched the rope inside the spool. Holding it tight like that, I drilled a 2nd hole for the rope.
Now with the rope fed through the center of the spool, I gotta twist it & pinch the rope in order for the holes to line up to insert the oak peg.
