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Old 01-18-2009, 06:37 PM
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Default Saw this in the newest eurotuner - Maxjax residential 2 post lift
<center><img src="http://www.maxjaxusa.com/images/maxjax-two-post-lifts.png"></center><p>
inexpensive, removable and available in March. Thoughts?

Edit: newest European Car also has it showcased in new products section.<ul><li><a href="http://www.maxjaxusa.com/">http://www.maxjaxusa.com/</a</li></ul>
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Default somehow... when people buy lifts to have at home, it makes shed a tear for the engineering effort
that went into making their automobiles
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<a href="http://www.maxjaxusa.com/maxjax-lifting-system/anchor-bolt-specs.html">this</a>??
Looks like a lot of steps &amp; diagrams (w/ dimension corresponding to the variables in the formulas) are missing.

I guess I would worry most about the strength deterioration of the concrete anchors after repeated installation/removal...
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maf is hard
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basic statics with a little mechanical design (spec-ing out your bolts)
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Default I understand what calcs NEED to be taken, just couldn't follow THEIR calc...
w/o doing a lot of guessing on what is what in their derivation, and more importantly, what ASSUMPTIONs they might have been making. \

maybe i'm get'n rusty! *
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shhhhhhhhhet.... my knowledge has evaporated. I'm glad I didn't sell my books back
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Default i kept all my engr text. Got like 1 bookcase full of them. Life sux when...
...come time for moving, and I've moved a LOT in the last 15 yrs (like ~15 times). With invention of intraweb, starting to wonder the wisdom of keeping all these texts still. ?
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There was an extensive discussion of this lift on the local porsche forum (dorkiphus.net)
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