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Hmmmm, maybe...., but your post is the first I've ever read on here that wished someones idea to fail, presumably to get hurt, and then wanted it videotaped so you could enjoy it! So I won't have to try and label you.



Where oh where do I even start? Well I guess the ice is broken, so I already have started...but seriously, you and Clay can call me whatever you want, but hopefully whoever this house is being designed for realizes the sheer shoddiness of the design.

Anytime I hear the phrase "three-story elevator" mixed with "economically", thrown in with "increase speed" and "losing pulling power"...I can't imagine anything good happening. Further mixed with "outside the box" thinking, and PVC failure mechanisms...WOW...hopefully outside the box means you'll never be in the elevator.

An elevator (especially a personnel hoist) is not something any Joe off the street can and is allowed to design. In my opinion (and hopefully that of others as well), outside the box thinking shouldn't happen. There are many tried and true methods which one should stick with.

And don't give me any of that "American Ingenuity" crap either. When other peoples' health (and lives) are at stake, you better do it by the books. You'll never get a PE to stamp your drawings anyways.

Now...you can definitely throw my advice out the window...I am no PE, but still a mining engineer by trade. There are plenty of lifting experts out there...we use them on a regular basis and their designs don't fail.

Personally, I'm in the mining industry with some but limited experience in light construction. Everything we do is submitted upon to an engineering firm working for the owner of the job. The main purpose for this procedure is to keep guys with designs like yours from ever seeing a jobsite. Unless you put some serious thought to your elevator (preferably get some professional help on the design) you ARE a danger.

Mark