Recent content by RichHawk

What's your insulation like? Walls? roof? Slab?

as a data point, I installed a 18,000Btu Gree mini split 5 plus years ago in my. 600 sq ft attached garage. I insulated the walls. The thing loafs along unless I open the door and suddenly introduce 100 deg air. Occasional grinding, wood cutting, and painting and I’ve only cleaned the filter...

How about 14 years later? Hi I’m Richard the OP Last year I moved out of my Olathe house I had the cheap lift for 13 years. ( there’s that 13 again) after the initial quality issues I didn’t have a single thing go wrong in 13 years. I used the lift regularly on cars less than 4000 lbs. and...

I'm following right behind you. Almost identical setup, though 1100Sq Ft for me, insulated, Radiant floor heat, and 18,000 BTU minisplit. What size radiant floor heat did you choose (BTUs or watts) ? I did the heat transfer calculations, and for winter came up with 16,000BTUs total on a -15...

Thread comparing the differences between my lift and Ign's Bendpak http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1234874#post1234874

Staring a thread to do actual side by side comparison of two different installed 2 Post lifts. The First two contenders are: 1) My American Automotive TP9A (manufactured by Qingdao Jinhua as a TPF1132-1) 2) The BendPak XPR10XC owned by Ign See my original thread on my cheap lift...

Yep the $1500 (plus change)was including shipping. I think I bought it at $1265 and had almost $300 in shipping, so I was $1565 total. I'll start a new thread to do a Cheap 2 post lift Vs Bend Pack XPR10XC then link it back here. Richard

I do already love having it. it's sooo nice. Coming down slow got a lot better once the "self bleeding" hydraulics worked most of the air out. Don't ask me to explain. AAE didn't do a good job of explaining it to me either. But they did say there was no need to bleed air out of it, even...

Tool Karma is definitely a give and take. I Bought an old Chevy Impala once for $100. Under the hood was a swivel head SnapOn ratchet and a complete row of SnapOn sockets. Hell I coulda thrown the car away and still been ahead. That was a good day. In an old car I bought as a demolition derby...

Note: We have entered the world of Armchair comparisons. Unless you see pictures of me holding a set of digital calipers on something, don't trust what you read for the dimensions from a spec sheet. I busted American Automotive three different times for "incorrect" dimensions on their spec...

I'm still waiting for someone with a BandPak to offer to do a side by side comparison of a bunch of the dimensions. I think it would help improve the knowledge base and understanding. Even if BendPaks low cost lift is made in the same factory as my American Automotove(Qingdao Jinhua) lift...

Having gone through the pain of the cheap lift, I couldn't agree more. After having the lift in and operational for a couple weeks now I have a few design limitations to add to the build quality issues in the first post. 1) How high do you have to lift the vehicle to engage the first safety...

This is intriguing. Lets do side by side comparisons. I'll take photos and measurements of mine, you take photos of yours, and we compare. I suspect that they are not the same. Just by sheer good reputation the BendPak has, I have trouble seeing how they came out of the same factory. But...

Really? Two hours? Are you sure you are counting everything? Because I think I spent two hours figuring out exactly how level the floor wasn't so I could pre-build the plate to raise one side 3/8 of an inch. And I know I spent at least two hours unpacking the lift parts laying them out and...

The "brand" of my lift is a bit of a mystery. I quizzed American Automotive but as you can imagine they don't want to give that information up for fear of loosing a sale. American Automotive directly stocks parts and covers the warranty out of Texas. Their Documentation says the lift is by...