BarnacleBill
New member
In order to do penance and show true contrition for having offended Mike Scott of First Texas I sentenced myself to a day in the garage organizing & cleaning. One of the issues to be addressed is so many detectors so little storage space! Another issue is how do ya hide them in plain sight? The solution............women folk like Coyotes never look up!
There was one of those El Cheapo light steel clothes racks on rollers in the garage, so I decided to use the rectangular frame portion as a holder to mount hooks on to hold six detectors. I dipped the steel hooks in liquid vinyl used to coat tool handles so that the coil rods wouldn't be scratched. I also mounted a couple of trailing arms made of steel conduit to space the frame away from the ceiling when lowered. This puts the detector at the top of the rack, a Fisher Edge in easy reach, next down an F70.
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The top of the rack has L-Brackets configured as a hinge point on a bolt. Then the conduit arms go up to the ceiling and attach with a very primitive hinge of perforated band steel formed around a horizontal piece of steel conduit laying across a couple of rafters. Since this is all low speed/low friction it is perfectly adequate.
[attachment 137846 Lbracket.jpg]
A close up of the band steel hinge:
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I located an old washing machine V-belt pulley which I mounted to a rafter with a shouldered lag bolt to pull up the other end of the frame via a rope.
[attachment 137852 pulley.jpg]
View one of the rack pulled to the ceiling and out of the way.
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View two showing the control head of the "elevated" F70 facing you.
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HH
BarnacleBill
There are talkers & then there are doers.
Rube Goldberg RIP!
There was one of those El Cheapo light steel clothes racks on rollers in the garage, so I decided to use the rectangular frame portion as a holder to mount hooks on to hold six detectors. I dipped the steel hooks in liquid vinyl used to coat tool handles so that the coil rods wouldn't be scratched. I also mounted a couple of trailing arms made of steel conduit to space the frame away from the ceiling when lowered. This puts the detector at the top of the rack, a Fisher Edge in easy reach, next down an F70.
[attachment 137843 vert1.jpg]
The top of the rack has L-Brackets configured as a hinge point on a bolt. Then the conduit arms go up to the ceiling and attach with a very primitive hinge of perforated band steel formed around a horizontal piece of steel conduit laying across a couple of rafters. Since this is all low speed/low friction it is perfectly adequate.
[attachment 137846 Lbracket.jpg]
A close up of the band steel hinge:
[attachment 137847 hinge.jpg]
I located an old washing machine V-belt pulley which I mounted to a rafter with a shouldered lag bolt to pull up the other end of the frame via a rope.
[attachment 137852 pulley.jpg]
View one of the rack pulled to the ceiling and out of the way.
[attachment 137853 roof1.jpg]
View two showing the control head of the "elevated" F70 facing you.
[attachment 137854 roof2.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill
There are talkers & then there are doers.
Rube Goldberg RIP!
