What have you done to your JK this week? 2.5M Views

[SeaComms]

@mick666 - Dont be to hasty on them, the top one can only show vertical movement if the lower has vertical movement, and the lower one is not supposed to have any movement.

[mick666]

The top one was the one he pointed out. Maybe an apprentice

[davewaldo]

Originally Posted by SeaComms

Got the hard top winch mounted up, just need to make some brackets to attach the ropes to the hard top.

Bracket to mount it on is 2mm steel C channel with the lips of the C sliced off, then bolted to the top rail, the vertical studs and the truss.



Winch is then bolted to the bracket, the top two bolts through the top rail of the frame as well.



Ended up doubling the wire rope from the winch, not for strength but for speed (or lack there of). Single pull is 10m per minute and double pull drops that down to 5m per minute. Means it will take about 15 seconds from vehicle height to roof storage height.

The knot in the middle is not permanent! Simply for testing, once I get the right lengths for the ropes I will splice a loop in them.

Looking forward to seeing a video when you get all this working Seacoms

[SeaComms]

Finished it!

Made up 4 hooks out of 3mm thick 50mm wide galvanised steel. Made up a block to sit in the hook so the face that mounts on the tub rests on the blocks and the lip of the top drops down beside the block.





And now for the inaugural unedited test... (after it was hanging about 2in above the tub being bounced around for half an hour just to be sure!)

For @davewaldo



And just to probe it works, after all installed I dropped it back to the floor.



Plenty of room underneath for it to not get in the way (if I reach up as high as I can I am still about 150mm short of touching it!)



Not happy with the angle, the rear ropes need to be shorter so will drop it down tomorrow and redo the splice on the rear ropes so they are about 50mm shorter. Will also make up a bar to lock into the front mounting holes to stop it spreading whilst suspended and may use that to store the front panels on rather than on top.

A good days work

[davewaldo]

Looks great Dave!

[PaulGC]

That's awesome Dave. Well done !
I'm loving that shed too, it's massive

[SeaComms]

Yeah finally after 50 years I have a man cave

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