OK, so I admit that I purchased the Weiss Bros. Lifting Kit. It is a
great accessory and all the pieces (and especially the lifting bars and shackles) are extremely well made. I highly recommend their product, and I hold Weiss Bros products in high regard.
Now that I have my full disclosure out of the way.. I will proceed.
When I saw the wire and web slings that came in the kit (and observed how they were made), it occurred to me that these should be fairly easy to fabricate as a DIY project. And for a novice like myself, that means I am talking "really really really simple".
Thus the
Do
It
Yourself
Simple
Stuff (a.k.a. DIYSS BROS)
Web Sling project materialized (which I will share with you).
First I grabbed some
flat braided lacing cord from my brother (who uses it for pulling electrical, phone, computer wires through conduits, walls, etc.). You can get this stuff all over the internet. It comes in dacron, polyester, and even waxed, as well as in different widths and colors. He just happened to have black dacron cord about 2mm in width (almost spot on to the Weiss Bros web sling width).
Next I purchased some heat shrinking tube. I picked up an assortment box of various diameter short tubes at Harbor Freight (for around $5). That was the amount of my total investment in this project.
I wanted to make some longer slings than those that came in the Weiss Brothers kit, so I cut the two pieces of cord the same length and put the smallest diameter tube on the ends. Since I was doing this project on the cheap, and since I don't have a heat shrink gun, I merely used my kitchen stove to shrink the tubes.
Here you can see the two sections of braided lacing cord with the heat shrink tubes attached on the end.
