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Re: Is Anyone Using Motors to Hoist themselves off the platform on the bar?

Okay, well back to my question and problem

We have a wench style system, with a van door motor driving the pivot arm and a fisher price motor with the plastic gearbox to drive the wench. When we attempted to pull using only the wench we were able to get half of the base off the ground before the motor started smoking, and we do not currently have a locking system of any sort to keep it suspended in the air.

We tried using the window motor to hoise ourselves with the pivot but that did not work either.

I believe we are making a different size wench and probably switching the fisher price motor.

If you ahve any more comments, suggestions, or questions i'd appreciate it with the crunch on time.
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