Over the weekend we straightened up in the garage and re-checked dimensions in the space where the wheelchair lift will be positioned. I also placed Dan Oss’s SolidWorks 3D model in the photograph below of the newly cleaned-up area using Photoshop. Arrows in the sketch show the lift platform movement as well as the wheelchair path. I think we are all now confident that this design is going to work nicely.
The next order of business is to “tweak” the structural elements of the lift mechanism as we decide on some important properties … like the size and shape of the rectangular steel tubing, and the thickness of the lifting bars. We might even subject the model to some simple finite element analysis.
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