DIY Airbag Actuated Motorcycle Lift - Part 1 

Glad I could help Ed!

Hey MechSavvy! Thanks a lot! Your review was essentially the catalyst for me building a lift with with an air bag instead of a hydraulic ram. The 1200$ USD and another 300$ for freight to Canada would have actually made that lift about 2000$ Canadian bucks at the time of fabrication, so I actually saved about 1500$ doing it myself, and it was also a pretty fun project taking a drawing and turning it into a physical thing!

Yeah, unfortunately we live in a world dominated with standard measures. Maybe one day the whole world will go metric and we'll be all the better for it!

Thanks for following along Spud! I hope you are looking forward to the C70 project!

@@blastworks sure am

I can't recall offhand, I may have mentioned it in the video. You can get them anywhere, just google "buy bearings online".

Thanks Carlos!

Thanks a lot Ray! Glad you enjoyed it!

I'll try to get a measurement for you when I get back from vacation! If you haven't heard from me in a week, comment again so I'm aware!

Hey Carl! I'd say I was into it altogether for about 600 - 700$ for all materials. The biggest costs were the bag itself (~120$) and the deck ($160).

I'll try to remember the next time I'm in the garage to take a few quick measurements!

Hey thanks for the for the reply back wow I'm sorry I hit a nerve I did not hear you say that you were 6 to $700 into the build and the cost of the bag the air spring it flashes up on the screen so fast you can't you can't hardly even see it so but anyway my job with yours with your your build I'll keep watching stuff that you have didn't mean to hit any nerves but all in it's a good looking it's a good looking left thanks

Hey Carl, quick update, I went ahead and recorded a video of the measurements and have also included a PDF in the comments for download. Check it out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DhocStzcMFw.html

Huh?

Absolutely

I did move them up so things would like up correctly. I'm not exactly sure on the measurements, but this sounds about right! I believe I temporarily tacked things in place and tested before finalizing the welds to make sure everything functioned properly.

There is a link shared in the description of my lift measurements video that I created once this lift was completed. Have a look there and you will see a downloadable PDF. You can also go to my website, www.blastworks.net/, and click Other Files, and then download the PDF that way. All measurements are in imperial units. This is how I did my scaling: I looked up the actual measurements of the Handy 1200 from the manufacturer, then I printed a copy of an image of that lift, measured the same components that I had real world measurements for, and did a scaled conversion. This works as follows, suppose something is 4' long in the real world, and I measure that as 5" on a drawing or picture I've printed of the same component, then I know that on the drawing, every 1" of the thing represents 9.6" in the real world. Feel free to google "Scale factor calculation" for the details.

@@blastworks that’s a bad ass way to put it together not good at this phone stuff c where do I go to see the measurements again?

@@samalo7755 click the link in my previous comment, choose Other Files, and you can download the document from there.

Ty I got it

Hey Dan, in case you missed my response in one of my other videos, here's a video I recently did with the measurements, and it includes a PDF download in the comments with all the material dimensions on it! Cheers! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DhocStzcMFw.html

Oops, update! Just realized you were working concurrently restoring the full size press. I guess timing is everything! All through the lift project I can hear you thinking to yourself, “I really need a drillpress!” 😂👍🔧🧰

I never at the time, but immediately after this project I actually bought a vintage drill press and restored it. Look for the series of videos on my channel!

blastworks Yup, saw it.