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"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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It`s a covered well in a separate doghouse that is ridiculously large for
its purpose. It`s like a 4 foot cube. The lid in question is the flat
roof of the doghouse. No helpful structure above or near, and I don`t want
to add any signficant external structure because it`s ugly enough as is.
I`d like nearly all of the solution to be inside and out of sight, with
maybe just an actuating lever on the outside. The idea is to raise the roof
just about 2" so a surrounding lip clears the structure below, and it can
then roll it back just enough to get at three valves inside. I`ve already
made tools to reach and operate the valves from outside. The tools stay
inside the wellhouse.
Because it will be a passive system with rollers that push the lid up from
inside, if the rollers and/or lifting mechanism fail to work then I just do
it the hard way as I have for years.
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Thanks. The problem with hydraulics is that they need a control and perhaps
an energy source accessible from outside where they invite tampering. Even a
recessed Schraeder valve to pressurize roller-raising air cylinders with a
bicycle pump or CO2 tire inflater could become uncapped and filled with dirt
by wind or wasps. Can you accept an external opening device that could break
or be lost or forgotten?
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Tire valve extensions with flush-closing ends might help.
The square PT meant for deck railing baluster could be your rot-proof
external lever. Mounted vertically it would look like innocent decorative
trim. A center one could toggle or cam up the roller levers, or pull a rope
that does. Maybe hide magnets that keep it in place.
If you could disguise the lifting levers as sliding or swing out sections of
the overhanging rim they could lift a side enough for a hinged caster to
drop into a track and keep that side up, avoiding finger risk. Privacy
screen hinges that fold both ways would allow the caster to hang vertical.
The caster should be latchable in place, as with a turnbutton. Lift the
other side the same way and then roll the lid back, perhaps until it stands
vertically if there is one centered caster on opposite sides and a track end
stop. You never have to lift more than half the lid`s weight.
You`d need a way to keep the caster temporarily folded back to lower the lid
with both hands on the levers, such as a pull cord.
The 8` lever that lifts my hinged 4` deck roof extension to lower the
supporting columns and then the roof for maintenance required only a screw
eye in the house roof soffit to hook it to, and it swings up under the
soffit for storage where it hides among all the other gear I have up there,
like the block and tackle to raise the hinged deck stairs and pulleys for
washing and drying tarps.
Anything not sheltered under the rim could ice up, a problem I have with my
chimney cleaning brush rope and TV antenna raising and lowering mechanism
which are on the shaded north side of the house.
Good luck, hth
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