Allthegearnoidea
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I have to move some heavy equipment in my workshop at the weekend so I bought one of those engine hoist From Amazon. Looks like there are two version commonly available from lots of sellers. They have a 1 tonne and 2 tonne version. Looks like all these come out of the same factory and just have different branding. Anyway I bought the 2 tonne version it was £125 and probably couldn’t have bought the material for that price. God thats cheap but I could have paid £500 for exactly the same thing.
Anyway started to assemble it tonight and some of the welds or lack of welds look very dubious to me. I’m a rubbish welder myself but 20 years in a fab shop means I know what welds should look like. Some of the parts have just been tacked together and looks like they didn’t even try, other areas are just bird snot dribbles no penetration.
I Have just ground off the powered coating from some areas and I will ask one of the platers to go around it for me in the morning. In many ways I’m not really complaining but it’s funny that they obviously put some effort into assembling these but then don’t even bother to weld it. I mean to weld badly is no quicker than welding it properly.
I don’t think I will bother to report the issue to the seller as it’s easier to just fix it. But it does worry me that this could injury someone with less experience with fabrication or lifting equipment.
My background is heavy lifting, mainly picking up trains and jet engines and I know how much testing goes into the equipment we fabricate. Now I’m not expecting a full ndt and material certification but It’s strange that this engine crane has not even had the basic inspection to spot the missing welds.
I had a look on YouTube and you can see many examples of the same hoist and people reporting the same issues.
I would have happily paid 5 times more money for this hoist for a quality product. But it looks like these cheap engine hoist manufacturers have pushed all the other quality manufacturers out the market. Mind you much the same storey for cranes buseniness in the U.K.
Just wondered if anyone had ever had one of these actually fail. I will try and post some pictures tomorrow if I get chance.
Best regards Chris
Anyway started to assemble it tonight and some of the welds or lack of welds look very dubious to me. I’m a rubbish welder myself but 20 years in a fab shop means I know what welds should look like. Some of the parts have just been tacked together and looks like they didn’t even try, other areas are just bird snot dribbles no penetration.
I Have just ground off the powered coating from some areas and I will ask one of the platers to go around it for me in the morning. In many ways I’m not really complaining but it’s funny that they obviously put some effort into assembling these but then don’t even bother to weld it. I mean to weld badly is no quicker than welding it properly.
I don’t think I will bother to report the issue to the seller as it’s easier to just fix it. But it does worry me that this could injury someone with less experience with fabrication or lifting equipment.
My background is heavy lifting, mainly picking up trains and jet engines and I know how much testing goes into the equipment we fabricate. Now I’m not expecting a full ndt and material certification but It’s strange that this engine crane has not even had the basic inspection to spot the missing welds.
I had a look on YouTube and you can see many examples of the same hoist and people reporting the same issues.
I would have happily paid 5 times more money for this hoist for a quality product. But it looks like these cheap engine hoist manufacturers have pushed all the other quality manufacturers out the market. Mind you much the same storey for cranes buseniness in the U.K.
Just wondered if anyone had ever had one of these actually fail. I will try and post some pictures tomorrow if I get chance.
Best regards Chris