Monday, September 28, 2009

cheap as chips?

That could be used to describe the quality of build of the americana 2 bike lift.
Only because of one part mind you. The bottle jack is a cheapo chinese mass produced one. Even so it should work OK.
The gripe I have is with one of the two safety bars.
When I went to assemble the lift I tried to fit the safety bars and bolt on the connecting arm. That was when I noticed that one of the bars fitted but the other had the holes for the connecting arm drilled in the wrong place. They were on the wrong face of the square bar.
I pondered returning the lift or at least phoning up the supplier for a replacement bar but decided that it would be so much easier just drilling new holes myself.
So I did and the lift now works perfectly!

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