[DeTomaso] Hoists

[John Donahue]

Yeah, like everybody thinks fleas make dogs scratch, and they don't. 

On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lots of things don't make sense, but they work. Think about how long it took for people to accept that ships made of steel could float.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:
> 
>> Sean said "the building you sitting in uses the same math". Was that
>> statement meant to instill confidence or terror? There appears to be a fine
>> line there.
>> On Jun 20, 2013 3:00 PM, "Sean Korb" <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It takes some faith in the mathematics, but there is a description of the
>>> engineering safety in the "What makes it so safe" link.
>>> 
>>> Frank Loyd Wright famously tried to put up his famous cantilevered support
>>> beams but the inspectors and city engineers told him he was insane.  He
>>> went to an empty field and had concrete poured to the specifications that
>>> he had calculated.  It works.  And he built his buildings after all.
>>> 
>>> I just barely passed my stressed vector analysis courses in college so take
>>> anything I say with a grain of salt, but the building you are sitting in
>>> uses the same math.
>>> 
>>> sean
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Jeff Detrich <jjdetrich at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dick Koch <arkoch at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> My choice is the Max Jax for my two car garage.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.dannmar.com/**dannmar-products/two-post-**lifts/maxjax.asp<
>>>> http://www.dannmar.com/dannmar-products/two-post-lifts/maxjax.asp>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I still don't see how you keep this from tilting to one side or the
>>> other?
>>>> Even after you attach floor anchors and balance the car on it, there just
>>>> doesn't seem to be enough width in the base of each column to keep it
>>>> steady. I'm sure I'm missing something???
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff
>>>> 6559
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> 
>>>> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
>>>> 
>>>> DeTomaso mailing list
>>>> DeTomaso at poca.com
>>>> http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
>>> '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
>>> "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
>>> "Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 
>>> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
>>> 
>>> DeTomaso mailing list
>>> DeTomaso at poca.com
>>> http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
>> 
>> DeTomaso mailing list
>> DeTomaso at poca.com
>> http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
> 
> DeTomaso mailing list
> DeTomaso at poca.com
> http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso