What Everybody Ought To Know About Types Of Bottle Jacks

The car jack is placed in the car's toolbox, used to replace the spare tire, driving out of the tire broken to replace very convenient. bottle jack types have rack and pinion jack, spiral jack, hydraulic jack, and inflatable jack, generally commonly used are hydraulic and rack and pinion jack.

1.Types of Bottle Jacks

(1) Rack and pinion jack

This is the type of bottle jack common in a normal car. The rack and pinion jack consists of three parts: frame, gear, rotating mechanism, which relies on the rotating mechanism to rotate the frame and lift the jack support area, thus lifting the vehicle. It's small and stored better. The disadvantages are also obvious: too much weight needs to be supported.

(2) Hydraulic jack

Hydraulic jack is divided into universal hydraulic jack and special hydraulic jack. It works in a more complex way, and its use benefits are fast lifting speed, load-bearing capacity than the tooth-bar jack.

(3) Spiral Jack

Spiral jack is relying on its own threaded structure self-locking, to support the vehicle, its support weight than the rack and pinion jack is much larger. However, the lifting efficiency of this jack is relatively slow, but the decline is fast, the user needs to pay attention to safety.

(4)Inflatable jack

This jack everyone sees maybe a little strange feeling, because this kind of car jack is not common. It relies on the car to inflate it, so few people know about it because the conditions of use are so special.

2.How To Use Hydraulic Bottle Jack Safety

The use of jacks is not as difficult as you think, it just requires force. Although jacks can easily lift the roof, we must do the following safety measures when using them.

（1） Fixed the car

Before lifting the car with a jack, we must first fix the car, to avoid the car is lifted after not smooth, fall down to hurt people.

（2）Do a good job of safety warning measures

After stopping the vehicle, we can not ignore the necessary safety warning measures, hasten to put the warning triangle sign to the safety distance behind the car!

（3）Pay attention to fix the bottom of the bottle jack

When we use jacks, we must pay attention to the ground situation, should try to choose suitable for the fixed ground operation.

If the car is on a soft ground, we have no way to find a solid flat road fixed jack, then we can be under the jack pad area of large and hard support, such as planks, floor tiles, iron plate, etc., to assist the jack fixed on the ground.

（4）Pay attention to the maximum weight of the bottle jack

Each jack has its own tolerance limit, and this load-bearing limit is marked on the jack label. Before we can use a jack, we must understand the maximum weight and the working limit slot of the jack.

Try not to use the jack on the non-matching body, in order to prevent insufficient support force leading to accidents.

（5） Aligning the vehicle chassis support point

In the position of the two sides of the vehicle chassis near the edge near the wheels, there are support points for jack contact. The lifting part of the jack must be supported at the chassis support point, otherwise, it is difficult to fix the vehicle, but also easy to damage the jack, or even damage the chassis.

（6） Put a spare tire in the underside of the car is safer

After lifting the vehicle up, let's not rush to remove the wheel screws, do a good job of safety is the most important thing. Before changing the spare tire, we may as well put the spare tire in the undercarriage, in case the jack does not work, the car fall off can also have tire pad.

（7）Lift operation to be steady and slow

To be honest, some of the jacks equipped with the car are only strong enough to support the vehicle itself. If we carry out lifting operation when the force is too fast and too strong, then the jack will easily be deformed scrap can not be used.

3.Bottle Jack or Floor Jack: Which is Right for You?

（1）Bottle Jack

4 ton double ram bottle jack for example，This product is designed for lifting. The jack can be used vertically or angled to 3 degrees from a vertical position. After lifting, loads must be immediately supported by jack stands. Each model is suitable for use in lifting or positioning vehicles, machinery, houses, or other building structures.

Pros ：Hydraulic cylinder is mounted vertically

           Compact

          Lifts heavier vehicles

          Lifts higher

          Small lifting pad

          More economical

Cons：Higher minimum height

            Can tip easily

           More complex to use

（2）Floor Jack

Air hydraulic floor jack for example，This super-tough floor jack gives you the power to lift up to 44000 lb,Ideal for servicing trucks and farm equipment.

Pros：Hydraulic cylinder is mounted horizontally

          Low-profile

         Quick and easy to use

         Easy positioning

         Large lifting pad

Cons：Larger

          Can’t lift as high

          Cost more

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