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Re: [Shop-talk] Hydraulic jack failure

To: "Lee Daniels" <lee@automate-it.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Hydraulic jack failure
From: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:47:15 -0400
On 9/16/07, Lee Daniels <lee@automate-it.com> wrote:
> I have a medium-duty hydraulic jack (Chinese), labelled "Roush Racing"
> although that has little to do with it. It has a "quick-lift" action when
> there is no load, i.e. one quick stroke will bring it up to the lifting
> surface, then once the load is on it goes into normal lifting mode. Except
> today it still works in quick-lift mode but won't do anything once it's
> loaded.
>
> The timing was impeccable; put the car up on stands and when it was time to
> bring it down, I couldn't lift the car off the stands. Bummer.
>

Be glad you put it on stands!

It's been my experience that you fix a jack like this by buying a new
one.  My experience with Chinese-made floor jacks has been dreadful.
They seem to last about 10 uses.

-- 
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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