nonoise
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Last Activity: 14 Sep 2020, 9:27 PM
Joined: 13 Mar 2012
Location: Seattle
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I have done something similar in a couple of places in my garage (garage door, and ladder rack) to reduce load on engineered trusses . But I secured the weight to the spanning board not the truss member itself so as to not weaken it.... -
This is how I repaired my sagging ceiling joists. I used a strong 8X10 on top and jacked them back up. You can poke a hole in the adjacent room and place a 2X6 or so on top of your trusses to carry the load. Trusses are engineered for spanning spaces and holding the roof, not so much for additional...Last edited by nonoise; 6 Sep 2020, 10:20 PM.Leave a comment:
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If you proceed down this path, you need to test with way more than your weight, and it has to be bounced as a live weight would be, not a dead weight....Leave a comment:
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Works like my MX1 hack that I did years ago. Mine has a twist throttle and I use skid steer. Anyone can hack an old MX1 using ebike controls, just takes some work. And it is a very nice piece of equipment..Leave a comment:
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