A day I've long hoped for is arriving. Last week I bought a used Rotary
RLP-77 scissor lift out of a car dealer's service department. Brought it home in a Home Depot box truck and got it into the garage (which is saying something, because each of the three parts weighs a ton!) Now to figure it all out, get it installed, and get it working for me.
I hope to do a recessed mount at some point in the future, but for now surface mount will have to do. This makes learning and changing my mind possible, though it will probably require ramps for the 911 until then.
Figuring it out- the installation manual gives three between-lift-pad spacings:
60cm (23 ⅝ in) is what Rotary calls normal
76cm (30 in) is wide
89cm (35 in) for Tesla, I presume for battery replacement
The SC is my smallest car (no surprise there), at least for now and the side-to-side spacing between lifting points looks to be about 110cm (43 in).
Is there a reason NOT to maximize spread between the lift pads to leave more of the car's underside open? Width is not a constraint in this garage.
Simulating maximum gap
Widths of various cars and where they would rest at maximum gap
Ferociously bright lighting is part of this also.
