Lessons Learnt Present #1

so you don't have to....

Picture the situation.

Yesterday evening, I decided that instead of lying on my back on dirty concrete I would would Use the car lift at work to take the sump off yet again.

All went well........ to begin with..... as follows.

1: Drive car onto lift, no problems.
2: Raise car.
3: Have a good look underneath the engine and begin to plan.
4: Drop Car.
5: Open passenger door and retrieve bucket to drain oil
6: Drain oil.
7: Raise Vehicle, wonder why the lift starts making very strange noises about 1 third of the way up.
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8: Realise through your assistants pigeon English that all is not well.......
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"What happened next".... Please comment.

Before you guess, I will give you one more important piece of information. Someone had wired a pipe accross the top of two of the posts on the lift to hang parts for painting over.