Bottle Jacks
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Bottle Jacks
I see that you can get some bottle jacks for fairly cheap. I need a good jack and those bulky shop jacks are a bit expensive.
Do the bottle jacks work well and are they able to keep a car up/ jack a car pretty high?
Do the bottle jacks work well and are they able to keep a car up/ jack a car pretty high?
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Generally, they aren’t short enough to get under most cars and are not really stable enough for that kind of thing anyway. They’re more designed for moving stuff around and as a source of power for other things (like a hydraulic press, engine crane…)
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The jack that comes with the Landrover in the UK is a telescopic bottle jack that gets up really high - still a small base though. I tend to use my floor jack more as it gets under lower cars more easily and lifts almost as high
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I used a bottle jack once because I didn't have the floor jack with me. The next time I needed a jack, I took my floor jack. My dad's had that bottle jack for a while but it's just a pain and it doesn't go very high. Also, you're limited to what you can put it under and such.
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Originally Posted by kossuth
Bottle jacks are great for what they are designed for. Lifting heavy things that have alot of ground clearance like a tractor or something like that they work well for but for lifting a vehicle not so much.