Ok, now you are trying to expose a pattern of my UNsafeness :)
I own a Perfect Park lift, yes the very same brand that a few years ago
had a lift failure and dropped a Corvette onto another Corvette (no big
loss to the car world in my opinion). Its the only lift failure I have
seen on the net and although I am sure it happens more often than we
would like to hear about its the only one I know of. You can see pics
of it in the Backyard Buddy advert they ran a few months ago (maybe
still are). The manufacturer sells the lift under many names and they
were all fixed with a "kit" that consisted of a hand written note, a
drill bit, a chunk of steel plate and a few bolts. Its fixed in the
latest versions of course and this was only a issue on the older lifts
(9-10 years ago).
I would not and will not get rid of mine, I find it perfectly safe
since I know what happened and look out for it even with their fix. If
I were to buy a lift nowdays I would look at Bend-Pak over Backyard
Buddy although BB is a great lift, the Bend-Pak one seems better
engineered to me. Like I said, my Perfect Park is here to stay however
and I regularly use it. My Dino is under it right now although a week
ago I noticed my Singer leaked oil onto the Dino, might have to move it,
not for safety but for oil on the paintwork.
mike
Marc wrote:
> I tend to be overly cautious, perhaps they *are* perfectly safe. But,
> I just don't feel comfortable with the mid-rise. Could be lack of
> experience too...
>
> Which 4 post lift do you have?
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> Mike Rambour wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ok, not sure why they would but ok, some people are also afraid of
>> roller coasters and I don't understand why they are.
>>
>> Scary to me was when the motor came out of the Ferrari Dino and all
>> that weight on the rear end was gone but the front end did not fall
>> to the floor. I did see the pics of the Lotus Elise that fell off one
>> of these at a tire shop right about the time the Dino was on the
>> lift. People use these all the time, including me. Like I said on
>> this list a few weeks ago, just because people do it everyday does
>> not mean its safe, I guess I was right.
>>
>> Anyway, to each his own, I am not offended I was merely suggesting
>> other options, I will keep using mine.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> Marc wrote:
>>> I've seen one of those used, and frankly, it scares the hell out of me!
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Rambour wrote:
>>>
>>>> $1,600 gets you one of these
>>>> http://www.asedeals.com/mid_rise_lift.html if you really don't have
>>>> the space but want to work on the car, I would rather have one of
>>>> these then the quicklift.
>>>>
>>>> Its not very useful for doing gearbox work as you can't get under
>>>> that part of the car easily, that is when a true lift comes in
>>>> handy and when the quicklift might work well but I would just go
>>>> for a 4-post and be done with it.
>>>>
>>>> mike (disclaimer, I have both a mid-rise scissor and 4-post so
>>>> I am biased towards them)
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