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building a car lift
boggle - 5/4/10 at 10:38 AM

after seeing some scissor type lifts at the show it got me thinking if you could make your own using a hydraulic ram and remote pump????

anyone done this??

barry


Stuart_B - 5/4/10 at 10:40 AM

i would like to build one to, but could not find any plans, if you do could you share them please.

cheers

stuart


UncleFista - 5/4/10 at 10:47 AM

I reckon the easiest way would be how Charlie of PPC fame has built his.
He's sunk the front end of a forklift into concrete in his garage


NS Dev - 5/4/10 at 10:54 AM

not worth doing. You can buy em for less than the cost of the bits and the hassle.

I bought the one in our unit (www.retropower.co.uk lots of pics with it in on there) for £750 and its in perfect nick, almost as-new.

Place in Hull does em, can get you details if you want


trextr7monkey - 5/4/10 at 01:17 PM

Thought about building a scissor type bike lift and actually acquired one of those lifting arms that all the pikeys have on their drop side trucks - it has a remote jack and huge ram, never thought of a car lift though


richardR1 - 5/4/10 at 02:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
not worth doing. You can buy em for less than the cost of the bits and the hassle.

I bought the one in our unit (www.retropower.co.uk lots of pics with it in on there) for £750 and its in perfect nick, almost as-new.

Place in Hull does em, can get you details if you want


Yep, they are in Hull, know them through rallying. Used Garage Equipment


daviep - 5/4/10 at 04:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
not worth doing. You can buy em for less than the cost of the bits and the hassle.




I disagree I built mine purely out of stuff I had lying about in the garage. Might not be practicle for a business to spend a day making one but for an individual doing it as a hobby definately viable.

Regards
Davie


boggle - 5/4/10 at 05:15 PM

i have an old portapower with a ten ton ram so i think thats the hydraulics sorted, i have sketched up some plans, should cost about £100 to make


NS Dev - 6/4/10 at 09:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by richardR1
quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
not worth doing. You can buy em for less than the cost of the bits and the hassle.

I bought the one in our unit (www.retropower.co.uk lots of pics with it in on there) for £750 and its in perfect nick, almost as-new.

Place in Hull does em, can get you details if you want


Yep, they are in Hull, know them through rallying. Used Garage Equipment


Nice guys, rally setup seems pretty good too! Love the "live in" workshop they have!!

Re. the lifts, yea you can make anything if you want to! The scissor lifts are crap in my opinion though as you can't really get to most of the bits that you put the car up in the air in the first place for!