Post the chain pictures for posterity
Congratulations!
Post the chain pictures for posterity
Congratulations!
Tin Can
This is how they are supposed to be. I couldn't find this picture until about 2 am this morning. This is Not how my chains currently run. Mine thanks to my misinterpretation of other pictures go behind or on the opposite side of the idler gears. Still is going up and down fine. I used the original chains, they are Whitney roller chains produced in Hartford CT. The building is still standing waiting for someone to convert to condos. The Whitney fellow was a close relative (brother or son?) of one of the founders of Pratt and Whitney, still in Connecticut.
Maybe there is no 'correct' way
Perhaps Deardorff was smart enough to design a foolproof setup!
If the other 496 owners would show up, we could get a quorum
500 were made...
Tin Can
Well I'm qualified as a fool for the foolproof test. Yeah, this was pretty high end stuff in the day. I'm going to need to remove my ceiling fan. I can't raise the bed more than about 5 feet off the ground before the camera gets in touch with my 8 foot ceiling.
My ceiling fan is close to the kitchen, at rear of 'Living Room' aka The Studio with no furniture that doesn't fold
Front porch windows blocked with Autopoles and 9' wide backdrop, old timey ceiling almost 10 feet
I bought this 100+ year wood shack specifically for the big living room and high ceiling. Affordable, i was in a hurry to settle before the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. My short term goal, to see the 2024 Total Eclipse which is again max right here. Oddly
After buying it, I became aware it once was one room, added onto over the century
I keep my big soft boxes facing up almost touching the ceiling. Keeps them clean, ready and out of the way
Gotta have goals...
Tin Can
For those who stumble on this thread...The Deardorff stand is very sturdy, much sturdier than a Century Centennial or the Agfa-Ansco version. When everything is locked down, if you bump into it, you're the thing that moves. The cost of that sturdiness is that it's bigger, and it's harder to roll around.
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― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
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