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DIY Gear-Driven Plywood Panel Lift

Here’s a great piece of practical prototyping. Frank Howarth is finishing his ceiling with plywood panels, meaning a lift would be handy. Why buy when you can DIY?

We know Howarth as an architect and designer, and here he pulls out the mechanical engineering muscles too. 

Here he walks us through the design and execution of this project:

I now want to build one, even though I have zero use for it. There’s a name for this disease, yeah?