Wheel size depends on surface smoothness, the rest is about the bearings in the casters and the wheel material (soft makes flat spots and hard to move). I've made a few of my own dollies using various wheel and caster types, and even a tiny dollie, like size of a sheet of paper, with good, but very small metal wheels can handle some serious loads.

 

Do they make gas analyzers in China?

 

They did not have any in stock... brhh, I need to wait till monday.

 

I bought the Australian equivalent of HF's "dollies" - the real brand is "Gojacks", the local discount auto place sells Chinese knockoffs.

For my occasional use they are great. I can lift all four wheels off the ground in a couple of minutes, and push the car anywhere I want it to go. No more 67-point turns to shift a car around other stuff in the workshop.

Gojacks are MUCH more expensive but correspondingly better quality and easier to use. You can see then in action in the Australian V8 Supercar racing series. Almost every time a car goes from pit box into the garage it does so on a set of Gojacks.

 

Hey Steve! I Googled Gojacks and came across this video of "Repo Rich". I think he is related to my avatar. Good demo of how these work. What I like is no jacking required to get these under the wheels. Looks like a great product though a bit spendy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...8207802492673#

 

My next purchase, today, a boatload of little plastic springclamps for holding carpet pieces against console and door fiberboard for gluing.

 

Bit spendy indeed - that's why I bought the Chinese knockoffs at about one third the price.

 

Put my HF parts cleaner together yesterday (finally!). Seems to work pretty good. I've been wanting one of these for years.

Not too thrilled with the pump housing mount, nor the power switch location and mount. The pump housing is not through bolted, it sort of hangs in a whole in the side of the tank. The power switch is mounted on the outside of the whole in the tank.

While it is outside of the tank, it could easily get doused with cleaning fluid.

I'm going to have to do some modifications to it to keep any liquids away from that power switch.

For the money it looks like a decent product.

And I'll definitely be putting it to use on my dirt bike today, and then on my steering rack tomorrow, once I pull it that is.

 

Mine is a couple of years old. It's more than adequate for the few times a year I need a jack. If I needed it much more often, I'd probably look for a higher quality replacement.

 

Those are known to break pretty easy, be careful.

 

Grab a bunch of paint stir sticks for the carpet-gluing duty, and for sure use them on the good face-- the one with the carpet face wher you can see it after installation. If you clamp directly, the carpet qets squished underthe clamp faces, and doesn't recover that well after the glue is dried.

Follow the directions on the adhesive you use, especially regarding tack time, and go real light on the big section. Use just enough to keep the carpet from moving laterally after it dries. Use more on the edges of the carpet where it rolls around onto the back. I've been using 3M 8001 weatherstrip adhesive, the one in the tube, on the back of the panel where the carpet rolls around. Apply with a small acid brush.