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RE: lifts

To: "'fred thomas'" <vafred@erols.com>, shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: lifts
From: Ken Landaiche <ken_landaiche@dlcc.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:39:04 -0700
Pits are illegal in many places, and dangerous to boot. But that's your
own problem! Apparently firefighters and other official rescuers hate to
run into a burning building and fall into pits. Check your local codes
anyway to know if you are coloring outside the lines.

Ken Landaiche

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fred thomas [SMTP:vafred@erols.com]
> 
> Listers, lots of different lifts for lots of different jobs, just no
> one 
> has mentioned a "PIT", cost me 1100.00 installed in three days and is 
> just great. 14 X 6 X 3, just pull right over it like the old days and
> do 
> what ever needs to be done. Stinger in Kansas makes a sliding jack
> tray 
> that you put bottle jacks on to lift the car up for tire & brake work,
> 
> 100.00 for two. Two mistakes I made it does not need to be 3ft wide,
> the 
> T/R is very close on it, 28"/30" is plenty room to still dance in,
> second 
> it should have been a little farther away from the side door of the 
> garage, but thats it and its just great and for 1100.00 cheap. One
> rule 
> you have to remember is your neighbors have to take their own used 
> filters & oil home with them, it is a neighborhood gathering place at 
> times.

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