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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 3790" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>When eldest boy was at primary school he came home one friday afternoon singing a song they had learnt...</p><p>The chorus went like .... 'We'll fix it on the weekend, we'll fix it on the weekend'.</p><p></p><p>I pulled the bottle jack apart yesterday. </p><p>It was one of those simple life lessons.</p><p> I had no idea how the heck they worked, or indeed if they came apart, but stuck it in the vice and took the big wrench to it.</p><p>Hey presto, it all unscrewed, oil spewed out on the floor and I ended up with half a dozen bits sitting in the pool of oil minus an R clip that had sprung off into the Never Ever.</p><p></p><p>Seems like the seal on the ram is dodgy and the oil bypassing it, which would explain the lack of pressure. Funny that, brand new jack and a dodgy main seal.</p><p>We'll put a dollar seal in it and I might have saved myself the cost of a new jack, except that as a mate said, if you put in your charge out rate in at $100/hr times four, you could have bought eight Jacks.</p><p></p><p>But of course, there is the satisfaction that I might have 'Fixed it on the weekend'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 3790, member: 212"] When eldest boy was at primary school he came home one friday afternoon singing a song they had learnt... The chorus went like .... 'We'll fix it on the weekend, we'll fix it on the weekend'. I pulled the bottle jack apart yesterday. It was one of those simple life lessons. I had no idea how the heck they worked, or indeed if they came apart, but stuck it in the vice and took the big wrench to it. Hey presto, it all unscrewed, oil spewed out on the floor and I ended up with half a dozen bits sitting in the pool of oil minus an R clip that had sprung off into the Never Ever. Seems like the seal on the ram is dodgy and the oil bypassing it, which would explain the lack of pressure. Funny that, brand new jack and a dodgy main seal. We'll put a dollar seal in it and I might have saved myself the cost of a new jack, except that as a mate said, if you put in your charge out rate in at $100/hr times four, you could have bought eight Jacks. But of course, there is the satisfaction that I might have 'Fixed it on the weekend'. [/QUOTE]
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