Why are scissor lifts so expensive?
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So a 2.5 ton scissor lift, upwards of £1k
A 2.5 ton trolley jack (a decent one) £100
While I appreciate there is more work in the lift and materials, why so much more? Is it really 10 times the work? Do they really cost 10 times that to produce?
I can see they all are electrically operated, is there a market for a manual one? Could that bring the price down? I have been putting some serious thought into this, what say you mechanics/engineers of PH?
A 2.5 ton trolley jack (a decent one) £100
While I appreciate there is more work in the lift and materials, why so much more? Is it really 10 times the work? Do they really cost 10 times that to produce?
I can see they all are electrically operated, is there a market for a manual one? Could that bring the price down? I have been putting some serious thought into this, what say you mechanics/engineers of PH?
It is so expensive because it is powered by a F.off big hydraulic ram & because it is so much bigger than a jack & needs to lift a full car all in one go, it is a massive scale bigger than just a 2.5 tonne jack.
The manual ones are much cheaper.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOBILE-SCISSOR-LIFT-TILT...
You can get them cheaper than that too, but not a lot.
The manual ones are much cheaper.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOBILE-SCISSOR-LIFT-TILT...
You can get them cheaper than that too, but not a lot.
I bought a mobile scissor lift this afternoon. 
£1175 all in delivered.
I've got fed up with working on the cars having to jack up each side and rest it on axle stands and then crawl around underneath. This should lift them a meter up and make all the working so much easier... and it's a combined birthday/xmass pressie.
£1175 all in delivered.
I've got fed up with working on the cars having to jack up each side and rest it on axle stands and then crawl around underneath. This should lift them a meter up and make all the working so much easier... and it's a combined birthday/xmass pressie.
SC15 said:
Piersman2 said:
I bought a mobile scissor lift this afternoon.
£1175 all in delivered.
Which one did you go for? £1175 all in delivered.
This one. There's a couple of companies on ebay selling these... imports from China I presume. These guys had a load in stock for delivery, the other guys due more stock in mid april. Roll on delivery on Friday
My set arrived today. Blimey it's a hefty bit of kit, weighs 400kg, took 3 of us to get it off the truck with a pallet lifter. Spent a couple of hours positioning and connecting it all together in the garage, dead easy even with the rather useless chinese developed instructions.
Pressed the button and it worked immediately, gotta admit I was impressed with everything really.
It is a bloody heavy chunk of iron work, you will not move it far by hand. I found a bit of wooden planking helped as a lever under each end to move it a few inches at a time to get the position spot on.
First job for the morning is to see if I can get my boy's Corsa onto it straight, or whehter I'll need to find some planks as the clearance required is at least 6", or 8" if you leave the shortest pads in place.
I'm fairly confident the Boxster and XKR are gonna need the ramps when I get to them!
Blimey it's a hefty bit of kit, weighs 400kg, took 3 of us to get it off the truck with a pallet lifter. Spent a couple of hours positioning and connecting it all together in the garage, dead easy even with the rather useless chinese developed instructions.Pressed the button and it worked immediately, gotta admit I was impressed with everything really.
It is a bloody heavy chunk of iron work, you will not move it far by hand. I found a bit of wooden planking helped as a lever under each end to move it a few inches at a time to get the position spot on.
First job for the morning is to see if I can get my boy's Corsa onto it straight, or whehter I'll need to find some planks as the clearance required is at least 6", or 8" if you leave the shortest pads in place.
I'm fairly confident the Boxster and XKR are gonna need the ramps when I get to them!
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