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Re: lifts

To: Michael Sloane <msloane@att.net>
Subject: Re: lifts
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 07:47:01 -0700
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <3.0.3.32.19980502062148.007cbae0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Michael Sloane wrote:
> 
> At 01:39 PM 5/1/98 -0700, Ken Landaiche wrote:
> >
> >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
> They are also illegal because fumes collect in the pits and suffocate
> people working in them.
> 
> Mike
> 
> >
> >> -----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.
> >
> Mike Sloane, Allamuchy NJ
> (msloane@att.net)
> <http://home.att.net/~msloane> Can you give one time where this happened, 
>just one time I would like  
to read about it, fumes collect in your garage as well, so what do you do 
sleep outside, keep your car maintained and this does not happen, please 
post the people you know of suffacating in a auto repair pit.


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