New Rotary Lift LockLight™ Car Lift Accessory Provides Peace of Mind

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NADA Expo Booth #2519S – Rotary Lift introduces LockLight^™, a patent-pending new lift accessory that shows technicians, shop managers and health/safety inspectors at a glance if a vehicle lift is resting on its locks.

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Every time a technician raises a vehicle for service on a lift, standard industry safety practices require that the lift be "lowered to locks" before starting work. To do this, the vehicle is raised to slightly above working height, and then lowered a bit until the lift locks engage. This process relieves the lift's hydraulic pressure and places the load of the vehicle securely on mechanical safety latches. Doing so reduces the chance of the vehicle freefalling if the lift system fails.

Prior to the introduction of LockLight, the only way to tell if a lift was on its locks was to press the "down" button — if the lift moved, its locks were not engaged.

"Anytime a vehicle is in the air, the lift should be on its locks," says Ron Lainhart, parts and service manager for Rotary Lift. "This practice is outlined in the Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) Lifting It Right vehicle lift safety manual and training course. Recently, occupational safety and health inspectors have been citing dealerships for each lift they find that is not on its locks with a vehicle in the air. LockLight is the only product on the market that gives a visual indicator of whether or not a lift is resting on its load-holding device. With LockLight, shop managers can tell at a glance whether or not all the lifts in use at any given time are on their locks as they should be, making it a pretty effective insurance policy against citations, employee injury and property damage caused by improper lift use."

The LockLight device is approximately four inches square with a large light in the center. It is mounted to the lift or the control console (for light-duty inground lifts) and connected to the lift's hydraulic system. When LockLight detects that the lift's hydraulic pressure has been relieved, the light in the center turns green, indicating that the lift is on its locks and work can begin.

LockLight (part #FA834 for 110V and part #FA835 for 220V) can be installed on any Rotary Lift two-post or four-post surface lift, or SmartLift^® inground lift. It is also compatible with other brands of hydraulic lifts.

For a live LockLight demonstration, stop by the Rotary Lift booth (#2519S) at the NADA Expo in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Jan. 23-25. To learn more, contact your local Rotary Lift distributor, visit www.rotarylift.com or call (800) 640-5438. You can also find Rotary Lift on Facebook, www.facebook.com/RotaryLift and Twitter, twitter.com/RotaryLift. Check out our product videos on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/groups/rotary.

About Rotary Lift

Rotary Lift is the leading brand of vehicle lifts and equipment designed to increase technician productivity. Founded in 1925 by the inventor of the first automotive hydraulic lift, Rotary Lift offers the broadest line of lifts for use in professional automotive service, commercial truck and transit, and enthusiast/residential customer segments. There are more Rotary Lift products used in vehicle repair shops around the world than any other brand.

Rotary Lift is a Vehicle Service Group (VSG) brand. VSG comprises nine major vehicle lifting and collision repair brands: Rotary Lift, Chief^® Automotive Technologies, Forward^® Lift, Direct-Lift^®, Hanmecson^®, Revolution^® Lift, Elektron, Blitz^® and nogra^®. Based in Madison, Ind., VSG has operations worldwide, including ISO 9001-certified manufacturing centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

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