Many moons ago when I was in high school I worked Saturdays for a regional auto parts/home appliance chain delivering televisions and appliances. One Saturday the driver and I were loading a new console television onto the truck when the lift latch failed and the gate dropped straight down dumping the television onto the ground. The cabinet had one leg break off plus a lot of scratches. I don't know if there was any internal damage. Fortunately the boss was watching so he knew we had done nothing wrong. We had the latch checked out but could not find anything wrong. I suppose the latch had only caught with the tip and was not fully engaged but I never felt comfortable riding up and down on the lift gate after that.
Tom K3TVC ----- Original Message ----- From: "VJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 6:19 AM Subject: [AMRadio] Re: of backward tilt > With the tilt problem showing as soon as you start to > descend, I was reminded of one such truck where we put > the boat tie-down strap around the upper third of the > transmitter, and used the trailer winch (removed from > our trailer and lashed inside the truck) to lower > things in a coordinated fashion, keeping tension on > the upper cable to prevent the transmitter from > falling off. > > The biggest problem was the macro, large-scale jolts > the liftgate suffers with even the quickest click on > the DOWN switch. Whole assembly had this oscillation > thing going on as we jerked it to the ground. > > THAT was fun. Lived to tell about it. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.7/816 - Release Date: 5/23/2007 3:59 PM > > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
