I’ve posted before but I made wooden ones. I used maple. There are several types of “maple”, the one I used is “hard maple”. It’s the same wood that’s used for bowling alleys. It’s strong, tight grained, no knots, and is very nice to work. It isn’t expensive. I used sized dowels for the pins. Home Depot, Lowes, most hardware stores, carry an assortment of dowels.
Odd as it sounds, “hardwood” does not mean the wood is harder than “softwood”. Hardwood refers to any wood that comes from deciduous trees, those that shed their leaves. Softwood refers to evergreens. This means balsa, one of the very softest woods is classified as a hardwood. It’s crazy.
I put a pad of rubber between the wood and the car to protect the car’s plastic lift pad. I used a piece of inner tube. Overkill, I’m sure but since I was at it... Rubber bands around the wooden pins will keep it in place if the pin fit is a little loose.
That claim about the high voltage wires in the rails and magnets on a lift pad is absolutely absurd. There’s no problem with small magnets. Either he doesn’t understand the science or he does understand and is making false claims. Either way doesn’t inspire confidence.
If you look at the drawing on the first page of this thread, you’ll see that the pad’s pins are not centered on the long axis. If you make one using this drawing it makes a difference which way the pad is inserted. It’s good to write “outside” on the edge that is away from the center of the car when properly inserted.
Odd as it sounds, “hardwood” does not mean the wood is harder than “softwood”. Hardwood refers to any wood that comes from deciduous trees, those that shed their leaves. Softwood refers to evergreens. This means balsa, one of the very softest woods is classified as a hardwood. It’s crazy.
I put a pad of rubber between the wood and the car to protect the car’s plastic lift pad. I used a piece of inner tube. Overkill, I’m sure but since I was at it... Rubber bands around the wooden pins will keep it in place if the pin fit is a little loose.
That claim about the high voltage wires in the rails and magnets on a lift pad is absolutely absurd. There’s no problem with small magnets. Either he doesn’t understand the science or he does understand and is making false claims. Either way doesn’t inspire confidence.
If you look at the drawing on the first page of this thread, you’ll see that the pad’s pins are not centered on the long axis. If you make one using this drawing it makes a difference which way the pad is inserted. It’s good to write “outside” on the edge that is away from the center of the car when properly inserted.
