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Old Jul 13th, 2020, 14:14   #5
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A bit of a coincidence. My 2T Halfords trolley jack failed on me this weekend. I noticed it slowly losing height and assumed I’d left the hydraulic release valve open, but it was actually the arm failing in lateral torsional buckling. It’s yielded into a permanent slight twist, so when lowered doesn’t go all the way down as it strikes the frame on one side. It had a front corner of the XC60 up (jack on two 4” fence post off cuts), so was taking quite a bit of load from the two nearest corners too. Not a huge twist, but certainly visibly noticeable and I won’t trust it again.
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