Been a while since I made a "build thread", so here I go...
I found the need to get down about 5 steps into a basement. I was thinking of going super-ghetto with a sheet of plywood and brute force, but that was really sketchy after measuring and visualizing how that would work out. While doing this, a buddy of mine went looking on Facebook for used stairlifts after I lamented that Craigslist seemed to only have stairlifts made of gold, or more reasonable sellers seeming to like forgetting putting contact info into their ad. Anyway, after he threw out a low-ball offer to one Facebook seller he found, I jumped on that one it seemed so good to me.
Got my hands on a 10 month old, allegedly used one or twice before the previous owner died, Bruno lift. I think $300 was a pretty good deal, the batteries should be good for a couple years more I think before added expense of needing to replace those. It definitely works, last night we ran the chair off the tracks for easier handling.
The current plan is to mount the chairlift track onto some 4X6 I already have on hand, throw that track onto the offending staircase, and plop the chair onto the track for some brilliant portable lift engineering. Of course since the track I believe is too long for the span I'm traversing...and I'm not cutting it down, things should look like a villain's lair in a 1960's Batman episode.
Anyway...on to the photos of this 'project'...
I done gone fetched it:
I found the need to get down about 5 steps into a basement. I was thinking of going super-ghetto with a sheet of plywood and brute force, but that was really sketchy after measuring and visualizing how that would work out. While doing this, a buddy of mine went looking on Facebook for used stairlifts after I lamented that Craigslist seemed to only have stairlifts made of gold, or more reasonable sellers seeming to like forgetting putting contact info into their ad. Anyway, after he threw out a low-ball offer to one Facebook seller he found, I jumped on that one it seemed so good to me.
Got my hands on a 10 month old, allegedly used one or twice before the previous owner died, Bruno lift. I think $300 was a pretty good deal, the batteries should be good for a couple years more I think before added expense of needing to replace those. It definitely works, last night we ran the chair off the tracks for easier handling.
The current plan is to mount the chairlift track onto some 4X6 I already have on hand, throw that track onto the offending staircase, and plop the chair onto the track for some brilliant portable lift engineering. Of course since the track I believe is too long for the span I'm traversing...and I'm not cutting it down, things should look like a villain's lair in a 1960's Batman episode.
Anyway...on to the photos of this 'project'...
I done gone fetched it:
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