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Re: Car Lifts

To: "Wayne" <wmc_st@xxiii.com>, <shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Car Lifts
From: "Mark and Susan Miller" <marknsuz@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:27:40 -0800
> At 11:14 AM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
>>IMHO, buy a car lift.  They are the coolest thing!!  (I can't believe how
>>many times I life up cars "just to check the underside" since I put it in!

>Have seen tire shops and garages with
> these little drive-over mini lifts that get maybe 1 to 1.5 ft of
> lift.  That would be great for most all the home wrenching I do.  But I've
> never seen them advertised (though I haven't looked that hard either.)


http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=46604

is a small surface unit.  Lift spec is 39".


While we're on this uplifting subject: I need a 4 post lift, for stacking 
parked cars.  We are building a new house and there wasn't room for a big 
garage at the house, so I convinced my wife I could live with a small one 
for a year or two and then build my garage mahal (a stolen term, sadly not 
original) IF I got a lift in this one.  We put scissor trusses in for the 
garage roof (same cost as flat trusses) so I have plenty of headroom.  Had a 
good slab put down, too (6", lots of rebar, 4000 psi).
So. . .  what should I buy, oh combined wisdom of the list?

Thanks,
Mark Miller
almost in Sebastopol, CA 






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