I would guess about 60 pounds. I have been suspending mine from the ceiling for years, and it has suffered no harm. Currently I have a single luggage-rack clamp-on crossbar. Attached to this is a system of ropes and pulleys. I remove all the bolts holding the hardtop to the car, clamp the crossbar to the gutters at the correct balance point, pull on the ropes, and up it goes.
It's getting sort of hard to find those old-style clamp-to-the-gutters luggage racks, but I stumbled across a single one at a garage sale. The ropes an dpulleys are from the hardware store. The system is attached to the ceiling by a pair of eyebolts screwed into the ceiling joists. I don't think you need to buy a specialty product- all the things I used were from a garage sale or the hardware store. You can see a picture of my previous-generation system at www.dougbraun.com, but since then I have redone the hardtop liner, and moved to a new house. Doug Braun '72 Spit --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > Does anyone know the weight of a finished factory > hardtop? > > I am looking at various "hoisting systems" to lift > my hardtop off of the > car and store it (using the hoisting system) over my > car but near the > ceiling. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
