Originally Posted by
Bill Dufour
Do you really trust any harbor freight stuff to hold 500 pounds over your head without breaking or stripping the gears and letting the load fall on your head?
Bill D
If you were using it everyday,for multiple lifts per day, or per hour, than no. Would I trust it to perform the occasional lift from the floor into a P/U bed? Yes, I would. I wouldn't stand under a load though.
Jason
The length of your pendant cable is probably the maximum length it can be for the gauge of wire running through it.
Many, many years ago,I watched a pendant cable catch on fire and act like a fuse. Thee person had installed a much longer cable, of the same gauge wire, and the current caused the cable to act just like a fuse. Bigger problem was that it happened over an open nuclear reactor cavity full of water!
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