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Re: Observation... jack stands

To: phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
Subject: Re: Observation... jack stands
From: dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca (dixon kenner)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:03:07 -0400
phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier) writes:

> I think I recall TeriAnn Wakeman writing a while back that there TR-3 DID go 
> through an earthquake on jack stands!

> I have never seen even cheapie fail.

My 109" Land Rover has been sitting on jack stands for a year now, the
stands on cement patio stands, on a gravel floor, and have not moved
despite me standing in the engine bay wrestling with the overbuilt head.

Next they will be putting stickers on floor jacks warning you from using
them to lift a corner of a car...

Rgds,


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dixon kenner, dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca
FourFold Symmetry, Breckenridge, Quebec, Canada 


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