Herculift Nightmares

[dbarnett]

I am probably admitting how much of an idiot that I am, but I have about 6 hours invested installing the Herculift Plus on to a Wolfcraft 6132 stand. I have followed the directions but have run into the following difficulties.

1. How can I center the spring when there is shelving unit blocking the spring path? Hooking the spring off to the side did not allow the Herculift stand to operate correctly.

2. When drilling the holes for the leg brackets, I found it difficult, if not impossible to align the holes correctly. As a result, it looks like my Wolfcraft stand was involved in a drive by shooting as I had to re-drill my holes to get the brackets to fit. Now all of my brackets are not centered where they should be and when I rock the tool stand the casters are not flat. I am afraid to drill yet more holes as there is not much metal left at 3 and 1/8 inches.

I am ready to return two of the Herculifts that I bought and probably buy one of the more expensive but more easy to assemble HTC stands.

Any ideas will be appreciated as I sit here demoralized because the shop set up is so slow and the wife is thinking that my tool purchases might have been a mistake.

Dan in San Diego

[Woodwerker]

Sorry to hear that you are having trouble.
I used a cardboard jig to allign the drill points on the legs.
I did not used the center spring, I can't help there.
Persistance wears down resistance....
Good Luck.

[dbarnett]

Well, I figured it out...

I had to ditch the shelf below in order to attch the chain correctly to the center body. Once that occured, it finally work. I have to make some adjustments, and raise one of the side supports, but over all it works great.

I guess that I just needed to walk away for a little bit.

Dan