Hygro, I'll give it a look. This project is rattling around the back of my mind, its maybe 5 years down the road. I was kind of hoping that someone would add a link to 'Elevator Kits R Us', but its never that easy. The DIY folks would be a good option to pick up info but I tend to think that in the US everyone has lawyer phobias, I know I did. When I got here I was amazed what people do for themselves.
I'm in the process of building a dumbwaiter. Its 4 stories tall, and will have a door on each floor with a plastic window in it. I'm going to be contacting an electronics guy to rig a low voltage system connected to a solenoid so if someone opens any of the doors the motor will have its power cut. So, if someone opens a door and shoves their head in the shaft they get to keep it.
Not meant for people so I have in mind a couple basic safety measures. Lets say a propane gas cylinder is going up, don't really want it plummeting down. After the box goes up past a hole in the side of the shaft a short 2x4 will be stuck through the hole but not the shaft, not side to side. It will go in a few inches until it hits a stop on the back of the 2x4. In other words it will be T shaped, inserted maybe 6' up. So, a gas cylinder box falling from the 3rd floor will hit the 2x4 and there will be some drama but it will be slowed before it hits the 2nd safety item, a half filled air cushion, thick walled like one of those ladies exercise balls. Those cylinders are tough as well. Likely I could take it to the 3rd story and toss it off and it would survive. Here they make them stronger than the white ones in the US. I'm building the box to carry (2) 5 gallon water bottles so the gas cylinder won't be the heaviest thing to make the trip. No people.
Borachio, yes they have some interesting suction tubes that I don't know what to think of yet.
Formaldehyde, thanks for that. This is why I want a kit. It must be a real elevator.
Just found a link to a supplier in India, better than China. Since the Chinese government has become so aggressive I really try to avoid Chinese goods.
http://www.indiamart.com/mazdaagencies/elevator-kit.html
warpus, there is a main deck that is maybe 5' above ground level where the main pizza serving area will be, next to the pool. If we end up buying the property next door we could build a ramp up to it for wheelchairs.
There will be a pulley lift from next to the pizza oven we're building up to the bar. Pully and rope is already mounted and comes down from a roof above the 4th floor. Just need to add a pizza sized box and some guide ropes run through eye bolts mounted on the box to keep it from blowing around. This will be lifted by a cook pulling the rope. Could use this the other way to send drinks made in the bar down to the main deck.
I look at it as kind of a neat feature. You can watch stuff going up and down. That would tend to make people wonder what's up there and 'discover' the bar too. So it gets them to use the current spiral stairway.
Regarding the ramp you mentioned for drunks to slide down, from the spiral step post there is a launch point for a water slide. No slide yet, but we're ready for it, all the prep work is done. From the pool pump room there is a pipe running inside the post to the launch point, and buried under the tile for the year we can afford to finish the project. So at that point a person from the bar, loaded to the gills, could get in the water slide and end up in the pool, though if he tosses that could put people off swimming.
NovaKart, yeah I'd had 2 rum drinks at the end of a stressful day driving to the big city over a hilly back woods route that's the only way in left to us since the 7.2 quake. Thrill a minute.
Minecraft is a game and they use elevators in it, beyond that I've never played either.
Not second hand, a kit, new. Look at the link above.
Third floor, sure people could climb. Mostly a bunch of old farts here though in varying states of health. What you suggest, plus drinks delivered to the main deck, is how we'll start out.
A kit! For under $2000!
