Check out this guy's elevator!

[pfcs49]

You could probably build a counter weight lift like brod hart's system using this guys garage attic lift if you can figure out how to lock the lift on the tracks. Take out the cable hoist and add weights if you desire to do it that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjlZHgo2w-Q

Very nice deal! Pretty easily fabricated. I like the tracks and rollers. I hadn't seen them before or I would have used them here.
( I mounted this filter on garage door tracks because it needed to be closer to the surface of the water of the tank above it but I need to be able to get it down so I could service it; the other filter is on wheels and rolls out of the way)

[pfcs49]

and while on the subject of elevators, here's mine if you haven't seen it:

[NW-Will]

That looks sweet.

Did you design and build that?
Is it manual?
all by counterweight ?

[pfcs49]

That looks sweet.

Did you design and build that?
Is it manual?
all by counterweight ?

No. I picked it up disassembled from an elevator company that replaced it with modern stuff. It's counterweighted with a simple but very clever locking coupling that stop it as soon as weight come out of the cab.
It was early 20th century, made in Poughkeepsie, NY. FDR's mansion just up the road has a near identical unit. They were called invalid lifts.
It's pretty and pretty fast. Perfect for my 3 stories. Paid $1200 for it (+ my carpenter installed it. He had to fabricate the darker "derrick" part of 6x6s
It's rope pull; the counterweights are on the left, on the two down-cables.

[funklab]

and while on the subject of elevators, here's mine if you haven't seen it:

I think there are many of us who will forever be envious of your clever little contraption, pfcs

[NW-Will]

That is so cool for such a great price
and so works with your space.
They certainly knew how to do things back in the day.

No. I picked it up disassembled from an elevator company that replaced it with modern stuff. It's counterweighted with a simple but very clever locking coupling that stop it as soon as weight come out of the cab.
It was early 20th century, made in Poughkeepsie, NY. FDR's mansion just up the road has a near identical unit. They were called invalid lifts.
It's pretty and pretty fast. Perfect for my 3 stories. Paid $1200 for it (+ my carpenter installed it. He had to fabricate the darker "derrick" part of 6x6s
It's rope pull; the counterweights are on the left, on the two down-cables.