The MaxJax portable Two Post Lift by Dannmar has had tremendous popularity in the short time it’s been around. We’ve been carrying Dannmar two post and four post lifts for about seven or eight years now, but the MaxJax car lift has only been around for about a year and a half. In that time frame, [...]

If you’re headed to the AAPEX show in Las Vegas (November 2 – 4th) , you may want to check out their new Product Showcase Guide. For those people attending, it’s a vital resource of information on who will be attending and presenting and a source for information on the wide variety of products that [...]

Auto shop technicians and home / hobbyists who needed to disconnect the battery while servicing a vehicle in the old days didn’t have much to worry about. They could just disconnect the battery and perform their work, then reconnect the battery and you’re good to go. Not so easy anymore. With all of the modern [...]

Whiskey is the latest Bio fuel ingredient that will be available for vehicle consumption in Europe. Scottish scientists at Edinburgh Napier University have done research in the area of bio-fuels recently and came up with a Whiskey based bio-fuel that shows promise. The fuel is actually made from the by-products of the alcohol, not the alcohol itself. [...]

Hot, sweaty days are murder in an auto shop. In the past, you had to throw a couple of portable fans up and just bear it. Or, if you were extremely lucky, you could have air conditioning put in , but at a prohibitive cost. There’s just been no cost effective way to beat the heat - until now. Evaporative [...]

Any auto shop has the need for oil collection methods along with storage containers. There are a wide variety of waste oil collection tanks and drains, and waste oil storage containers. Most importantly, your shop must conform to EPA standards for waste oil storage and collection or you can face penalties. For instance, you must [...]

What happens when a vehicle falls off a Car Lift ? It can get ugly. From damaged to destroyed cars. Damaged car lifts. And worst case scenario, injured, or even fatally injured people. Unfortunately, it happens more frequently than you would expect. Why? There are a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s a failure of the [...]

Excellence in Engineering BendPak has an engineering staff of seven full time engineers who constantly design, test, and evaluate automotive lifts. BendPak lifts have evolved and changed over the course of the past 40 years not because they had to, but because they are always improving the design and structural stability of their lifts to [...]

AAPEX is the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo. This is an annual event of industry leaders that gather in Las Vegas Nevada in early November every year. This year, the show runs November 2nd through the 4th. Attendance numbers are over 100,000 each year. Everybody who’s anybody will be there. The benefits of attending include being able [...]

Did you ever have an automotive system leak that you could not locate? Of course you have. Every technician who’s been around for any length of time has. There have been leak detectors and smoke machines before. And they’ve had varying degrees of success. But none have offered the complete package. Many were made to [...]