Cribbing! Brilliant! I love that. Definitely going to remember that trick when I try to rack my 11/34. Anyone got a spare set of rails? :O
Best, Sean On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Chris Elmquist <chr...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thursday (07/02/2015 at 03:16PM -0400), Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > From: Sean Caron > > > > > I think there's a lot of good advice here > > > > Lots of good advice here; any chance we can capture it (and the rest in > this > > thread) in a Wiki page? (Hint, hint... :-) > > A tiny bit more advice, > > Don't forget or loose the "third foot" that is at the bottom middle of > the rack and slides out toward the front to keep the rack from tipping > over once you have the 11/34 racked and slide it out to work on it. > The machine is plenty heavy enough to tip over even a rack that has two > RLs also installed in it. It's an important safety feature. > > I found the 11/34A too heavy to lift into position in my rack above the > one RL at the bottom by myself so I used "cribbing" to raise it a little > bit at a time. I used 3' lengths of 2x2 pine, a large pile of them, and > lifted each side, front and back of the machine 2" at a time and slid > one 2x2 in each time I lifted it. I kept lifting a little and raising > until the machine was almost exactly aligned with the rack slides in > the middle (of my "corporate rack") and then I slid the rack up to the > machine rather than other way around. Worked like a charm and I never > had to lift that bad boy more than about 2". > > I like being self-sufficient and not having to bug people when I want > to play with this gear so this was the poor man's option over purchasing > an engine hoist or a lot of steroids. > > Chris > -- > Chris Elmquist > >
