Recent content by PatL

Did you end up buying the unit from HF and if so, was it obsolete and/or supported by Autel? I am looking at it too and have the same questions. By the way, do a search for HF 25% off and you can get it for $875 at the moment. Pat

Unfortunately, the tires still need to be rotated (every 5K miles!) Other than that I am just curious and wanted to be prepared for future needs. While I was under there (with my dog who always wants to get under any car I lift), I checked the electron level too and it looked fine.

This beast (Tesla S P85) weighs almost 4,700 lbs. There are 4 lift pads that are about 3" x 5" to make sure you don't try to support the car on the battery pack which takes up the entire floor of the car and you can see it in the picture. The adapters shown are ones I made for my wifes Toyata...

I did finish the job and have lifted several heavy vehicles recently. I ended up rigging up a hydraulic puller to remove the anchor bolts from the concrete. 12 of the 13 anchor bolts tensiled at the right angle bend and 1 of them actually nearly broke my hydraulic set up because it did not...

yes. The first one I torqued to around 70 or 75 ft lbs and it tensiled at the bend (weakest point)

Thanks for the feedback. It is very helpful to determine the path I will take to fix my screw up(s)

c4cruiser, Quick question to see if your situation ios similar to my planned set up. Do you know of the tops of the epoxied anchors are contacting the bottom of the base plate or if there is a gap? The reason I ask is if they are not contacting the plate, then the 80 ft lbs of torque is...

I wish I had gotten better advice from the landscaper who was acting as the general on the job. He was going to use 2500 psi and I asked for stronger stuff and he recommended 3000. I should have done my homework. I plan to epoxy 5/8-11 grade 5 all thread about 8" deep in 3/4" dia holes. The...

Sounds like you have some professional experience so I wanted to ak a question about epoxied inserts. How is this able to develop such a high strength as compared to just the concrete grabbing onto the threads? The anchor bolts had plenty of exposed threads for the concrete to grab and it...

OK....today I went ahead and torqued on one of the anchor bolts to see how far it would come out. When I reached around 60 ft-lbs the anchor bolt rose steadily out of the hole for about 2.5 inches and then started to spin. I used a torque wrench so I could monitor the specific toraue and the...

Rather than having the bolts stick up (male threads) I suppose I could follow your suggestion and fabricate some threaded rod with coupling nuts on the ends (to create female threads) and epoxy them in the same manner as you suggested. Do you see a problem with doing that? I am surprised that...

I plan to take the posts down between uses because the space is used for other things.

Thanks redhead. I will let it set for another month or so and try to pull them out with 80 ft-lbs of torque. I am guessing they will come out. Can't believe I went this far and didn't quite get it right. Any suggestions as to how much excavation I need to do on what I have? Can you tell...

I just found a hand written note I had that says 80 ft lbs from the forums and from their discussions with Danmar.

My instructions said the same thing as yours. When I was doing the install in my garage a year ago and had problems with the inserts. In fact I had the same problem you did on some of the inserts....there was no way to get 3 turns . I called customer service at GES and talked with a guy named...