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Retrofitting an existing lifting technology is what I'm thinking of. But, fella's, and with respect to Bill, I think my analogy holds. I Am one of those guys who have built bikes from scratch, two of them. And a couple of street rods. Frame up kinds of stuff. And I carefully study the mechanical ramifications of what I'm doing. And I ask lots of questions from people who know more than me. Perhaps my query was not strait forward enough. I've seen custom bikes on the net and in magazines that would never pass standards for braking, turning or highway speed driving. But there are plenty of people here who slobber all over them. It seems to me that a simple lift mechanism, applied from some other field to rise twenty feet in the air, would be much safer to contemplate than a machine whose collision force potentially reaches a maximum impact of 120 mph.
I would never give you advice as to how to build one, but you may have noticed my emphasis on safety and pointing out things that probably aren't a good idea.
The point to my posts to you was not to discourage you but to point you to the fact that, there are many designs for elevator mechanisms out there. They work and are safe. Pick the safety methods FIRST.
In the end, I believe you'll find you won't be able to design and build a good safe one for less than you could buy one.
Should that stop you. I don't think so if you want to build it. Just go with what's proven.
Clay
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