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1. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: "Madurski, Ronald M" <ronald.m.madurski@lmco.com>; Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:38:22 -0500; I was pretty surprised how much shimming was necessary to get my posts vertical. My floor is almost perfectly level and on one side I have almost 1/4" of shims on one corner of the base. I didn't do; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00012.html (8,478 bytes)
2. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>; Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:56:09 -0500; Yeah, I didn't need to shim that much but I did need some shims. 1/8" plastic shims on or so on one post and on the other I used steel shimstock. The alternative is to have the upper support need "a; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00014.html (8,362 bytes)
3. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:49 -0800; Aren't you worried about the plastic deforming under load ? Randall; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00015.html (7,034 bytes)
4. Re: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:53:01 -0500; Mine came with U-shaped plastic shims. They are different colours and thicknesses, and wedged like ball joint pickle forks but much thinner. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00016.html (7,342 bytes)
5. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>; Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:15:27 -0500; Not at all. These are super high-density industrial *magic* shims that my father-in-law scored from a job where they built a hockey/basketball stadium. These shims support 6 figure pound loads. For y; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00017.html (7,551 bytes)
6. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: pethier@isd.net; Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:19:30 -0600; Don't they put skyscrapers on plastic to let them slide sideways a bit during earthquakes? Phil Ethier; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00018.html (7,166 bytes)
7. RE: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>; Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:23:56 -0500; Dunno. Wouldn't surprise me though... Cheers!; /html/shop-talk/2005-01/msg00019.html (7,324 bytes)
8. Lift install question (score: 1): Author: eric@megageek.com; Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:31:29 -0500; Ok, I'm still in the process of installing the lift. pics can be seen http://www.megageek.com/photo/photoa~1.nsf Click on the "See what's new link" and you can see the different pages there. This is; /html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00170.html (7,263 bytes)
9. Re: Lift install question (score: 1): Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>; Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:38:35 -0500; No ideas as to what may be missing or what not but some tweaks I did when I installed mine... - Shim the frickin' posts. You want them plumb. I can't believe this isn't in the docs. But it wasn't in; /html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00175.html (9,101 bytes)

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