Really nice!
I finally got it up!
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Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2006
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From: Midland TX
I finally got it up!
Yes, even at my age, 6 months is a bit too long to get it up, but I finally did it!
I got my Kwik Lift The first of the year and just now used it for the first time. The reason for the delay was - first of all I was busy with clients building web sites and the like, and the second reason was that I had to devise a way that ONE PERSON (me) could set-up, tear down and store this Kwik Lift on a custom tile garage floor without doing any damage to the tile... and do it quickly.
The first step was I ordered a set of soft rubber ball-bearing casters to mount to the bottom of each rail set - this allows me to effortlessly position them around the room as needed both by myself and without scratching any tile. I installed two free-rotating casters along the right-side rail of each assembled ramp and two locking casters along the left sides. The reason for the locking casters is because my garage is on a steep hill that is right in line with the neighbor's living room and if one of these heavy ramps were to just set one wheel outside my garage, it would sail across the alley and into my neighbors big screen TV (not to mention probably slamming into a car coming down the alley!).
Next I had to get some heavy rubber mats and cut them to the correct size for each pedestal. The rear mats go under the very rear of the ramps until the rear legs are dropped and then the mats are slid forward to cushion the rear legs as they are lowered.
You can also see a large plate that goes under the jacking point. It is made up of a heavy gauge metal that Kwik Lift sold me separately, I then screwed that to a 3/4" piece of plywood and then glued a piece of heavy rubber on the floor side (again to protect tile).
I also had some custom aluminum stacking blocks built and powder-coated which allow me to store everything in about a 1-foot wide space along the side of the garage when torn down (I will post pics of the stored unit later). Took me 20 minutes to set up everything from the stored position and will take 20 minutes to return it to that state - this way I still have full use of my two car garage when not in use and don't have to parks on top of it and well as trip over it everyday.
Anyway, finally drove up on it tonight and not a creek, a pop or a broken tile. It "may" have been safe to use on the tile without all these precautions, but I did not want to take a chance. If you were on a regular concrete floor you could probably just man-handle all these pieces into position, but the way I have this set up now, a girl could do this alone.
Excuse the crappy photos... it was getting late and I was pooped...
I got my Kwik Lift The first of the year and just now used it for the first time. The reason for the delay was - first of all I was busy with clients building web sites and the like, and the second reason was that I had to devise a way that ONE PERSON (me) could set-up, tear down and store this Kwik Lift on a custom tile garage floor without doing any damage to the tile... and do it quickly.
The first step was I ordered a set of soft rubber ball-bearing casters to mount to the bottom of each rail set - this allows me to effortlessly position them around the room as needed both by myself and without scratching any tile. I installed two free-rotating casters along the right-side rail of each assembled ramp and two locking casters along the left sides. The reason for the locking casters is because my garage is on a steep hill that is right in line with the neighbor's living room and if one of these heavy ramps were to just set one wheel outside my garage, it would sail across the alley and into my neighbors big screen TV (not to mention probably slamming into a car coming down the alley!).
Next I had to get some heavy rubber mats and cut them to the correct size for each pedestal. The rear mats go under the very rear of the ramps until the rear legs are dropped and then the mats are slid forward to cushion the rear legs as they are lowered.
You can also see a large plate that goes under the jacking point. It is made up of a heavy gauge metal that Kwik Lift sold me separately, I then screwed that to a 3/4" piece of plywood and then glued a piece of heavy rubber on the floor side (again to protect tile).
I also had some custom aluminum stacking blocks built and powder-coated which allow me to store everything in about a 1-foot wide space along the side of the garage when torn down (I will post pics of the stored unit later). Took me 20 minutes to set up everything from the stored position and will take 20 minutes to return it to that state - this way I still have full use of my two car garage when not in use and don't have to parks on top of it and well as trip over it everyday.
Anyway, finally drove up on it tonight and not a creek, a pop or a broken tile. It "may" have been safe to use on the tile without all these precautions, but I did not want to take a chance. If you were on a regular concrete floor you could probably just man-handle all these pieces into position, but the way I have this set up now, a girl could do this alone.
Excuse the crappy photos... it was getting late and I was pooped...
Last edited by Choreo; Jul 27, 2008 at 12:09 AM.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2006
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From: Midland TX