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Update on the Lift Reconstruction. I got the tank cap (in the pic above) off with some heat and a pipe wrench. Tank was almost full. I also talked to one of the former property owners past employees....who said he thought that lift hadn't been used in about 20 years and he remembers when...

Luckily, after doing some research......auto type lifts are exempt for all the EPA regs. Also, my state and county exempt them, but do require that the "existence" of a lift must be in the property disclosure documents. Which it was. There is no major issue if it is leaking, and I don't...

Rotary Tech said my compressor would drive it easy, no problem.

I'm updating this just in case somebody else comes along looking for the info. Got in touch with Rotay today, which was awesome. Rotary tech said check oil level first. It is that center cap, with screw. He said if it's low, don't run it. Low oil will result in the lift "launching"...

Yeah, I am definitely hopeful that there are no leaks. The area around and under the cover looks clean, and there no visible leaks under that cover.

Rotary isn't "home" right now. Probably won't be able to talk to anybody there until May. Anyway, I found an installer document for it in an old desk in the shop. So all the air plumbing looks like it's there, I just need to cap the fitting the previous owner took with him. It requires a...

This is a pic of the lift plumbing.....and what I "think" might be the fill point for fluid.

Hi all, new guy here. I bought a house with a shop that the previous owner used as the office for his general contracting company. This included a lift. The previous owner told me it had been about 10 years since the lift had been used, as that was when he pulled the compressor out of the...