Reply To: Why are Jacks / Lifts / Stands so Overpriced?
I’m an idiot.
I bought a trolley jack from Tool Station for 32 quid. I did this the day of finally finding and ordering the X-ring conversion. If I had just spent a few more hours searching online I could have had this.
Well if I’m being charitable with myself, I had just spent a weekend working on my friends van, in the rain, to then ride an hour home, in the rain, to then snap my drive belt a mile or so from the flat and had to push her home, in the rain. Then i spent three days being a ball of ADHD anxiety trying to find a replacement belt. By the time you came to my rescue with the X-ring conversion kit I was done in. I’d already spent three day freaking out over how much this “simple” bit of basic maintenance is costing us. I am hyperfixated on every penny we are having to spend. So when my nesting partner came into my office and said “What all do you need to get this sorted? Whatever tools you need, just buy them”
My brain was absolute mush, fatigue, sciatica, arthritis, that spot in the middle of my lumbar I can’t reach any more from the two times I broke my back, I was done. I couldn’t see spending 60 quid on a jank metal hoop that I could absolutely do a better job of with scrap metal and a bit of PVC for the roller. So I just blurted out “I need a floor jack. There’s a floor jack. Sorted” 😀
Last night I found this, on Amazon. It’s too late to return the trolley jack and order the bike lift in time. Parts should be here tomorrow, and it doesn’t hurt having a trolley jack.
Live and learn.
With a new rear tire needed before winter and having spent monies put aside for that on the chain conversion just means I won’t be getting the bike jack til sometime next year, hopefully.
That’s a really rambling way of saying, I found a decent looking bike lift
If I had just waited
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