No the Perfect Park is not anchored. I even purchased the caster option
for it which I found out later was a good idea. In my town a lift
anchored to the floor is commercial equipment and I would need a permit
which I could not get for a residential area, with the casters available
(not even installed, just available) its homeowner equipment and no
permit is needed. I only found this out 2 years later when the
inspector was over to sign off on a house remodel that we did, he was
looking over my cars and just mentioned that I should keep the casters
handy. I have used the casters they work quite well, I can take it out
on a sunny day and work in the driveway (with a few mods to the garage
door header to get an extra 1.5").
The Singer has 3 drip pans, it is British after all but it found a
entirely new place to leak oil from and missed the litter box.
mike
Marc wrote:
> No comment on the Corvettes, although my pref is LBC's... and old
> trucks....
>
> Glad to hear of your experience, another data point... BTW, is the
> Perfect Park anchored to the floor? Oh, and why not give the Singer a
> litter box ( drip pan) ;-)
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> Mike Rambour wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
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