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Old 11-04-2018, 03:15 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by thstone View Post
Good to hear! You can never be too safe under a car.

On this week's episode of Garage Squad on Velocity channel, they featured a build for a guy who had his car on jack stands and it fell on him. He was then in a wheel chair for life. Don't ever be that guy.
I always wonder about the cause of these incidents. Is it failure of the stand or the car slipping off?

In the case of Escos shearing (double) of a steel pin has to happen rather than load failing a cast jack stand tooth.

The Escos also have a flat top which I feel is pretty difficult to slip off of.....last time I used them up on all four I recall the set up was pretty robust stability wise. It was getting the car up there to the minimum height without using alternate unibody jacking point that was a bit tricky.
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