Being all wintery out today we started some shop projects.
One project was the installation of a pneumatic hoist in the rafters to help with lifting boats.
We had a German JDN hoist rated for 1500 pounds. There is a steel I-beam running across the open framing of the garage. I simply drilled a hole in the bottom flange and attached the hoist.
Pneumatic hoists are fantastic devices. They are smaller than electric hoists, very reliable and run on about 90 psi. We found this one on e-bay a few years ago.
It immediately became useful. We lifted the skiff off the trailer and suspended it 2 feet off the ground so we could instal the cutwater.
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| JDN hoist |
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Cold forming the cutwater by bending the brass to the band saw wheel.
Chapelle's lines indicate the same arc as the saw's wheel. |
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Marking the cutwater for a cut.
The brass is 1 inch wide by 1/4 inch thick.
It was purchased at Shapiro Supply in St. Louis |
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| The stem piece will be brazed to the cutwater and screwed into the deck. |
Today we installed the bow eye. To do this, we drilled through the brass cutwater from the rear. Before it was installed we drilled a centered hole through the bow stem. Now all we had to do was chase it out to get a centered hole in the cutwater.
