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Gouvernail

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My new 5 ton hoist arrived Monday. I figured it is time to take my old Yale hoist out of service so we can rebuild it.
In 1995 I sent the hoist off a Yale factory that has since closed. The folks at Yale told me production of the model ended in 1898. They certified it for four tons and complained they would have been able to go to five if they could have found new chain that fit grooves.

Anyway, if it failed, I suppose it would be difficult to explain why I chose to lift a boat with a 125 year old hoist that hadn’t been properly serviced in 40 years.

I may simply retire it, but we have found the full blueprints in the UTexas patent archives and we may rebuild it just because it would be soooo cool.
I did find the right size chain. It is rated 15,000 single strand and the hoist lifts with two strands. I think that would be adequate.
 
Ed Lada

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Gouvernail said:
My new 5 ton hoist arrived Monday. I figured it is time to take my old Yale hoist out of service so we can rebuild it.
In 1995 I sent the hoist off a Yale factory that has since closed. The folks at Yale told me production of the model ended in 1898. They certified it for four tons and complained they would have been able to go to five if they could have found new chain that fit grooves.

Anyway, if it failed, I suppose it would be difficult to explain why I chose to lift a boat with a 125 year old hoist that hadn’t been properly serviced in 40 years.

I may simply retire it, but we have found the full blueprints in the UTexas patent archives and we may rebuild it just because it would be soooo cool.
I did find the right size chain. It is rated 15,000 single strand and the hoist lifts with two strands. I think that would be adequate.
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You know the rules Gouv, pics or it didn't happen.
 
Gouvernail

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Ed Lada said:
You know the rules Gouv, pics or it didn't happen.
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OK. I can play that game.
Here is my new shop under construction in 1995. The Old Yale hoist is hanging in the outdoor hoist.
The 6’ x 8’ spreader frame is the old top off an old oil well above ground frame. I bought it in a scrap yard for $10 in 1980. We hang the frame upside down from its original orientation and lift boats with chains snd straps attached to the four corners.

The hoist frame is made of three 20’ x 3’ x 2’ sections from a retired electrical transmission tower.
Each frame section was hit dipped galvanized after the original welding was complete. I bought the three sections and some bracing we never used for under $400 total. It took me a week to drill holes and bolt it all together.
It stands on two blocks of reinforced concrete to which is attached with J bolts. The blocks consist of an entire truckload of concrete.
My structural engineer buddy ran some numbers and said he could sign papers rating it at “something well over 20,000 pounds loaded in the center as shown.
We now use a hoist on each side and the rating would be much more for that configuration

Link to lots of thirty year old photos

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Gouvernail

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and wtf don't you have a link to your site in your sig ?
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Haven’t looked at my signature in years. Sigs don’t show on my cell phone.
I think it has a link to the Easter Laser regatta which is part of my website …… they really needs to be updated
 
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Gouvernail said:
Haven’t looked at my signature in years. Sigs don’t show on my cell phone.
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The Easter Laser Regatta is coming up soon. I have hosted the event every year since 1984 and do my very very best to make it fun, well run, very competitive, and most of all, a holiday event you can count on as a place to go see lots of your friends. It started as something for singlehanded sailors to do if they had no family commitments. Thirty odd years later we have some families of three generations, who think of the event as THEIR Family Easter celebration. visit the website and come play

Gouvernail said:
they really needs to be updated
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indeed .
 
Gouvernail

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Mid said:
The Easter Laser Regatta is coming up soon. I have hosted the event every year since 1984 and do my very very best to make it fun, well run, very competitive, and most of all, a holiday event you can count on as a place to go see lots of your friends. It started as something for singlehanded sailors to do if they had no family commitments. Thirty odd years later we have some families of three generations, who think of the event as THEIR Family Easter celebration. visit the website and come play



indeed .
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No way I am changing the event name
Nobody calls the boats international laser class associations.
The boats are lasers
Just like the frisbees used to play frisbee golf
 
Jules

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Ok, the purists here will puke, but I picked up the Tormek kitchen knife sharpener since breaking out the stones doesn’t happen enough. Kickass. It’s not razor sharp but I could, and might, finish the blades with my fine stones (the diamond stone is 600grit) and there is a finishing rubber wheel to knock off the burr.

It’s quite handy, quite a step up from the ceramic wheel sharpeners. Since it’s so handy, it could be easily used weekly just to touch up the blades.
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A lot of people seem to like Tormek but I've never seen a side-by-side comparison to hand sharpening on wet stones. I know Lie-Nielsen plane blades are all machine sharpened and ready for use. So maybe the negative attitude about machine sharpening isn't wholly justified.

I'm in that group who prefers to dull edges rather than sharpening them. Most often, I'm going to the wet stones only after it's obvious I've procrastinated too long.
 
boomer

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Odd - just checked and the link worked fine.

Try a search using his name, Fred Schroth, and numerous links come up, his website is an entertaining gander. Fred would make a good Santa Claus.

They use their PPE in his shop - I'd even bet Fred had enough common sense to got vaccinated, mask as needed and even social distanced as necessary.

I bet he missed his 50th class reunion, too, or his class was competent enough to postpone their 50th reunion, and if they did finally celebrate their 50th, I bet Fred has the longest hair in his class.

I bet Fred would have made a good Sergent or Navy Chief in the service, but as a matter of principle didn't go in, unlike "Bunker Boy"Trump who didn't go in because of his cowardly ways.
 
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I just did, too - went to his Linkeden page where he advertises as Senior Executive Hydration Manager.

That clinches it, Fred would have made a great Master Sergent or Senior Chief or Fire Chief.

In my book, Fred is the shizzle and no doubt what a true Patriot looks like.
 
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