Saturday, October 23, 2010
I Broke my Lifter Mechanism.
Recently, I blogged about an invention I made to jack up small cars. One commenter mentioned since Saturns were no longer made, I would not have a lot of use for it. Not so, it can be used for any small car. This week, I was using it to lift the Suzuki Sidekick and I broke it. Searching madly in my notes I discovered that I had designed it for a 2,000 pound load. The front of the Suzuki must weigh more than 2,000 pounds.
Maybe I should have designed for the jack capacity?
Re welding the angles.
You probably can see the arc in the top plate.
All back together. We will see how this works.
# posted by Fred @ 7:55 AM 
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What is it they say? Things happen in threes: the garage door spring, the computer, the car jack invention. You should be good to go now! :-) Looks like you had a nice birthday!
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