Posted 2013-09-01 2:03 PM (#154454) Subject: Crank up Jack tip
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I thought I would pass on a little tip about crank up jacks. This weekend while at a show I was cranking up my jack a friend commented that he wished his cranked that easily. I told him about the 2 different gears on the jack. Push the handle in for quicker response when lowering and pull the handle out for when cranking up slower but easy to crank. He had no idea that there were 2 speeds. I also witnessed a young girl laboring to crank up the jack and stopped and showed her and her mother the 2 speeds.
This got me wondering that many people may not know that crank up jacks have this feature. I know I didn't when I first got my trailer nor did the guy that owned the stables that helped crank it up as I couldn't.
Posted 2013-09-01 3:12 PM (#154457 - in reply to #154456) Subject: RE: Crank up Jack tip
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Originally written by retento on 2013-09-01 3:04 PM
Not all jacks have the two speed option...
All the ones that I ran across did and the owners didn't know it. Maybe you could point out a way to tell if it is 2 speed or not because that is all I have seen.
Posted 2013-09-01 4:21 PM (#154462 - in reply to #154457) Subject: RE: Crank up Jack tip
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Originally written by china doll on 2013-09-01 12:12 PM
Originally written by retento on 2013-09-01 3:04 PM
Not all jacks have the two speed option...
All the ones that I ran across did and the owners didn't know it. Maybe you could point out a way to tell if it is 2 speed or not because that is all I have seen.
If the jack has a pancake shaped case on the side of the column , it likely has 2 speeds.