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Installing a Harrington Hump is much cheaper than raising the entire length of the platform – to the order of 1/10th of the typical £250,000 cost. [2] The Hump was devised by Network Rail and Cumbria County Council, in conjunction with Pipex Structural Composites, [2] and was installed first at Harrington railway station in December 2008. [3]
Unimog 405/UGN on a lift table World War 2 American ground crew using a lift table to load a bomb onto a B-17 bomber. Lift tables can come in a vast array of configurations and can be built to suit various highly specialized industrial processes. For instance, they are often customized for integration into production lines, packaging systems ...
A weight training bench is a piece of exercise equipment used for weight training. Weight training benches may be of various designs: fixed horizontal, fixed inclined, fixed in a folded position, with one adjustable portion, with two or more adjustable portions, with racks to hold bars, etc.
PK machine guns that feature a Warsaw Pact side-rail bracket on the left side of the receiver can mount various aiming optics. The standard Russian side rail mounted optical sight was the 4×26 1P29 Universal sight for small arms, an aiming optic similar to the British SUIT and SUSAT and Canadian C79 optical sights. When mounted, the 1P29 sight ...
The table top consists of two wooden jaws, one of which is fixed and the other moveable on threaded rods operated by handles. It can be used as a bench vice to hold wood, metal and other parts, either clamped between the jaws or, using supplied bench dogs, clamped on the table top.
Codes also generally require that there be a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (38 mm) clearance between the underside of the handrail and any obstruction—including the horizontal bracket arm. There is an allowance however for variations in the handrail size—for every 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) of additional perimeter dimension over 4 inches (102 mm), 1 ⁄ 8 ...
Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.
For sufficiently wide stairs, a rail is mounted to the treads of the stairs. A chair or lifting platform is attached to the rail. A person gets onto the chair or platform and is lifted up or down the stairs by the chair which moves along the rail. Stair lifts are known variously as stairlifts, stair-lifts, chair lifts, stair gliders and by ...