Hoist cable shreaded!

[Karl Bebout]

It'll take 'way less than an hour to get the shredded cable off your lift and maybe an hour for a steel vendor to make up a replacement and then another hour to install the new cable. I have no idea where in your area you might find a vendor, but heavy machinery dealers and repair shop can point you in the right direction. (tractors, bulldozers, cranes etc). NOT a difficult job at all. Wear heavy gloves My 2¢ worth. Just do it.

[427SSSS]

Karl Bebout
Thanks for the info/suggestion, BUT, I intend to contact the manufactures, have them come and get my car off their lift, remove their lift, refund my money, and tell them how lucky they are that I was not killed or injured due to their faulty lift.
Of course they will disagree with me, fine, I'll see them in court. Any judge seeing the photos of the shredded cable, and other photos, worth his salt, will agree with me.

[spdbrake]

The cables are considered a wear item and highly doubtful they'd be covered.
They may ship you a freebie IF you can show a failure at the Swedged end due to over (cut wires) or under (slippage) swedging.

They do sell all the various cables for all the Maint lifts and your Storage lift as well, See page 32.
http://www.tuxedodistributors.com/su...19_catalog.pdf

Making cables using a local vendor can work IF they use the correct Flexible cables for your application (they come in several turn radius ratings).

[dacobb]

Originally Posted by 427SSSS

Karl Bebout
Thanks for the info/suggestion, BUT, I intend to contact the manufactures, have them come and get my car off their lift, remove their lift, refund my money, and tell them how lucky they are that I was not killed or injured due to their faulty lift.
Of course they will disagree with me, fine, I'll see them in court. Any judge seeing the photos of the shredded cable, and other photos, worth his salt, will agree with me.

Good luck with that. There's almost ZERO probability that a stranded cable like that would fail by all strands breaking at once.

Assuming it didn't break loose at the swaged end, most likely, the cables were improperly tensioned, or misaligned on a pulley, and over time each strand broke until failure. And that would be on you.