Lift assist

[ERLover]

If you really want a work out, have and ER to put in DP mode, I got the lift kit for it, but do to mom will not be putting it back together for a few weeks and add the lift assist.

Where did you acquire a lift kit for a '10'?

My mistake JPG, I got a kit from the mother ship but not a lift kit, just the lift arm for the table when in DP mode for height adjustments.

[robinson46176]

Since I built the Push-me Pull-me double drill press (picture below) several years ago I have not lifted any of my SS's to vertical mode at all. Why would I?
OK, I did lift my old Mark VII one time but that was just to lube the little speed control bearing. I have to think back... I guess that was lifting it to the left? On a side note the old Mark VII's are easier to lift to vertical since the pivot points are much closer to the center of the machine (picture below).
I never had any problem lifting any of my SS's to vertical but I would have had a problem when I started getting back into the shop after my bypass in Nov. 2013 due to restrictions. I had the double drill press to use by then so there was never any need. If the need would have been there I would have likely just used a light block & tackle hanging from the ceiling. Over a lifetime of farming we used various block & tackle setups rather frequently especially loading and hauling farm equipment. They were usually operated just by pulling the rope which was always faster and simpler than using a ratcheting come-a-long.
In the milking days the dairy cows were my mother's enterprise. Back in those days we used milk cans of 8 or 10 gallons. A heavy steel can with 10 gallons of milk was pretty heavy and needed to be lifted into the milk cooler which required lifting them over 3' above the floor. My mother was pretty strong but also pretty short so it was quite a chore. My father attached a ring to a ceiling joist above the cooler and hung a light block & tackle from it with a hook that fit the milk can handles properly. The B & T used was actually a single wire fence stretcher so it had a lock built in so that you could lock it and let go of the rope if you needed to which made it easier to use. It worked well (picture below).
I need to get back to some additions to the double drill press.It is now on a regular SS caster set. I want to add either some shelves or a small cabinet to the base just above the caster area and another above the bench tubes.

1 temp - Single wire febce stretcher.png (7.77 KiB) Viewed 1967 times

Shopsmith push me pull me.JPG (60.92 KiB) Viewed 1967 times

My Shopsmith Mark VII.JPG (78.38 KiB) Viewed 1967 times

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