Seller:synhouse✉️(2,757)97.5%,
Location:Los Angeles, California, US,
Ships to: WORLDWIDE & many other countries,
Item:156122093559Brand New Lifting Feet for Escalera Stair Climber MS-1-66 MS-1-72 -Full Set of 4. Synhouse has customers in 42 countries.
Synhouse ships to your country and has since before eBay existed.
If you are looking at a small/normal item in the Synhouse eBay listings
and seeing no shipping options to your area or seeing a notice that
says the seller doesn't ship to your address, this is incorrect. I've
been shipping to Australia, England, etc. since 1990, five years before
eBay even existed, and eBay has deleted ALL the shipping options and
prices I've spent many hours setting up, in order to enable eBay
International Shipping, and then tells people in the most commonly
shipped to countries that shipping is not available there. This is fake
and idiotic; eBay had already been shipping there with the eBay Global
Shipping Program for a few years, now says they don't with eBay
International Shipping AND deleted my own shipping options without my
permission or knowledge, when it could have and should have been left
in place as an option because at least it WORKS and eBay doesn't know
what they are doing.
This goes WAY back to 2017 with people in New Zealand (one of the most
commonly shipped to Synhouse countries) telling me that I don't ship
there, and 1) multiple calls to eBay didn't solve it, 2) they sometimes
said they solved it but didn't, and 3) said "Uhm, wait 24 hours and it
will be working.", which is how eBay gets you off the phone. And I
could never get that New Zealand problem solved. The new problem since
early 2023 is eBay deleting my own shipping options in order to put
theirs in, then theirs tells people no, the seller doesn't ship there,
but I CAN manually set up a shipping method (usually with Synhouse it's
one price each for USA, Canada, Asia/Australia, and the rest of the
world.
Now I'm getting messages like these:
5/16/2023: Hi, Wondering how much shipping would be to Canada, postal
code T2N 2P7. Thanks!
Can you enable the ebay international shipping option for me? I am very
interested.
1/1/2024: Hi there can you post to London uk and how much would postage
be?
Hi how much would postage be to London England
Thanks for your reply. Im trying to check out but im get the message
saying seller doesn't ship to your address. Please advise as i really
need the new faceplate.
1/30/2024: Hello synhouse, I have a T8 and would like to buy your
Optical-Emitter-Set just to make sure to have it in the future. Is
there a reason you don't ship to Germany?
If you see that any small/normal Synhouse item does not ship to
you/your area, this is FAKE and wrong, please send an eBay message to
tell me and I can manually enter shipping to your area AGAIN.
Sorry for this incompetent platform I've been struggling with for 25
years now...
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---ESCALERA/STAIR CLIMBING ROBOT NOT INCLUDED---
The various Escaleras/Stair Climbing Robots shown in the photos are for
display purposes only and are not included. No machine is for sale
here. Nobody sells these machines for $40 and it's sad how many times
I've had to tell people things like this across various listings. This
item is marked "new" because it is a newly manufactured Synhouse part
and often shows multiple items available because many are in stock. A
20 year old machine would not be marked "new" with $10.50 shipping and
two in stock. Have some sense. I shouldn't even have to say this, but
it's come up five times in six months, and yes, I kept the money.
The second set ships at a greatly reduced shipping price.
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No refunds, no returns, no cancellations, and no replies to such
requests. If you don't want this, don't buy it. If you don't have the
machine/models shown and PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HERE, assume these are
not the correct parts and don't buy them.
All sales final. I won't cancel the order. eBay won't cancel the order.
I won't reply to mails saying people paid the money THEN did some
research to make a decision about buying and said pay me back. No. I
have two items on eBay where 1 out of 3 purchases are an almost
immediate request by message to "Plz cancel the order cuz
uhhhhhhhhhhh...." because eBay already told them NO cancellations. Take
that noise to Wa1mart or Amaz0n where you can return 88% of what you
buy.
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Does your Escalera/Stair Climbing Robot have the crumbly critters?
Completely renew the lifting surfaces of your Escalera/Stair Climbing
Robot with this full set of brand new replacement polyurethane lifting
feet from Synhouse, manufactured of the highest quality polyurethane
and molded to a tight, solid fit.
Each machine uses four (4) of these. For your money here, you get a
full set of four lifting feet, enough to replace all the lifting feet
on one machine.
It's recommended to replace all four lifting feet at once, but if
someone really desperate to fix a cracked foot needs it, I can post a
special eBay listing for just one lifting foot for $16.
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Compatibility:
These are slightly over 2" long by 1-5/8" in diameter.
These are not generic parts, these are specially made for these
machines and won't fit any other type of machines.
So far, these are confirmed to fit the MS-1-66, MS-1-72, and the RLA-EW
models.
Over the past three decades, Synhouse has had many Escaleras in
operation, but all of them have been one of three models, the MS-1-66,
MS-1-72, and the RLA-EW (portable forklift using the electric winch),
mostly made in the 2000s (those that have a website printed on them),
but possibly going back to the 1980s. These replacement lifting feet
would work on every one of those, which I believe used the part number
715HD, and so far I've never seen a machine here that they would not
fit, BUT the installation instructions for the 715HD also refer to
other lifting feet called 660HD and the use with older model 700 pound
capacity machines with the single strand lift chain built before 1987
and say to grind or file off four edges to provide proper clearance for
those (presumably 660HD) lifting feet. None of those older machines
have been seen here so suitability for those is unknown.
Like all the Synhouse eBay listings, these are no return/no refund
listings, so buy for the wrong machines at your own risk.
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Some background on these parts:
I never broken a good lifting foot, nor ripped or otherwise damaged one
unless they were obviously already dried out and visibly cracking and
ready to come apart anyway.
And I have heard to rotate/flip feet 180 degrees when worn, but I've
never really seen anything but slight surface wear/scuffing on the
lifting feet on my own machines over the last three decades, even those
over several years old.
The life of the lifting feet always ends the same way, they get old,
they get dried out, they crumble, and then they fall off. At that
moment it's impossible to use the machine without damaging the stairs
and possibly the lifting cams as well. So have some good lifting feet
before that happens.
Most recently, one of my favorite machines that is kept inside here on
the carpet wasn't used for a year or two, as I had another machine on
the ground level that was easier to use. And when I went to use it, one
of the feet had crumbled and fallen off on the carpet. I'm glad that
didn't happen under load on the stairs. The other three feet still
looked usable, so I installed one new foot on there and went ahead and
used it. Those were 84 bucks for a set of four, so I was only going to
replace them as really needed, because other machines here were going
to need them really soon (but those other machines here are all fitted
up now with the brand new improved Synhouse lifting feet at less than
half the price). Then 19 months later, I needed to use that favorite
machine again, and when I pulled it out, I saw that those other three
lifting feet had crumbled and fallen off the machine, just like leaves
falling off a tree. After cleaning up two of the crumbled feet, I
decided to take photos to show the other one, and you can see that in
the photo gallery.
It may seem odd, but this is normal. The lifting feet on these machines
are expendable, disposable items that will all need to be replaced
periodically.
If you think one or two of your lifting feet are dried out, cracked,
and need replacement, the rest of them aren't far behind.
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Installation:
It's the lifting feet that fail, crumble, and fall off, not the bolts,
so you will re-use your old hardware, which is four partial thread
bolts, eight flat washers, and four nuts (these are a strange type of
lock nuts which just have the top thread distorted to jam the threading
process and make it really tight instead of having a proper nylon
insert like the nylock nuts we sometimes use in cars and in R/C cars,
if they seem stripped because you can't un-do them with your fingers,
ah, that's how it's meant to be). The bolts insert from the outsides,
with each lifting foot having one flat washer on each side of it, and
the nuts installed on the insides.
Using two 9/16" wrenches (I usually use one 9/16" combination wrench
and one 3/8" drive ratchet with a 9/16" socket on it), remove the old
hardware and what's left of the old lifting feet, taking care not to
lose the star washer that is in the middle of the cam sandwich. On at
least two machines I have worked on, this is a plain flat washer and
not a star washer, which might be a different thickness and affect the
tightness of the fit of the lifting foot on the cam sandwich.
Insert two of the old flat washers into the ends of each of the new
lifting feet. The size of that opening is slightly reduced on these
parts so they retain the washers and they won't fall out during
reassembly.
Making sure the star washer is held in place between the cam layers,
force the new lifting foot with the washers on it into place. This one
will fit tightly touching the cam sandwich without the open gap top and
bottom and should provide a little more solid support as it is now
being supported on more surfaces. Pound it into place with your hand,
then reassemble the hardware as it was, using the ratchet/socket on the
outside to help get that bolt through there, and it will be snug. Put
the nuts on tightly, but not so tight that it starts to compress the
lifting foot or make it bulge out. The old ones bulged out a little
naturally because of that nasty seam down the middle and they weren't
flat, but these new lifting feet are perfectly formed and perfectly
flat back on the ground-facing surfaces, and if you start cranking the
ratchet and making it too tight, you'll see it squishing and bulging
out, and it's not supposed to be like that, so back off a few turns and
don't make it too tight. This will make the lifting feet last longer.
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Two of the photos in this listing are scary photo collages of some of
the problems seen trying to run machines with decrepit old lifting
feet. Get some new ones. The superior quality Synhouse lifting feet
show the quality and details that Synhouse products have become known
for.
Synhouse Multimedia Corporation has been in business for 24 years and
has been manufacturing from day one. Synhouse existed for 4 years
informally before incorporation, and was officially incorporated in
1999. Twenty-four years later, those first products (the Synhouse
Original MIDIJACK, MIDIJACK II, and Moogiestyle MIDIJACK) are still
being manufactured.
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Shipping:
This will be safely packed for shipment.
Most of my items are USA shipping only (unless they use the eBay Global
Shipping Program), but for these I have an overseas shipping option
that's probably about a third cheaper.
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A little safety information and advice borne of a lot of experience:
I might add this in for anyone not really familiar with the safe usage
of these machines and possibly just now thinking about buying their
first one (which I strongly recommend, but with conditions as noted
here, as soon as I bought my first I ran out and bought two more),
nearly 100% of the machines seen here on eBay in the last 15+ years
have been the 1,200 pound models, some marked "700 lb cont. duty
1200 lb max cap.", in my opinion it is a BAD idea to plan on buying one
of these for moving 1,200 pound objects, 1,000 pound objects, or even
800 pound objects, and to seriously pay attention when trying to lift
anything over 400 pounds.
The normal operation of going up or down the stairs one by one and
pausing as needed to make sure the lifting feet are aligned to the
stairs, catch your breath, etc. goes completely out the window over
400-500 pounds, because the motor/gear/chain mechanism can't even hold
the load in place at that weight, much less triple 400 pounds at 1,200
pounds, which sounds like a complete joke to me. The only way it can
hold the load over 400-500 pounds is with the motor running and lifting
it up, if you release that switch for one moment you will be sliding
back down those stairs which is not something you intended.
I found this out the hard way in 2006 with a load of approximately 650
pounds and two very, very strong helpers (and it's not recommended that
anyone else be on the stairs at the same time, but we were stuck and
had no choice but to use two people to hold it and block it because the
motor/gear/chain mechanism can NOT hold you in place unless you have
the tires resting on a step and even then it's dicey because they roll
freely and the normal position is just about 1"-2" from the edge of the
step so if you let it roll outward slightly, it's gone) on two flights
of interior carpeted stairs.
I see so many postings about "1,200 pounds", but this just seems
ridiculous to me, and I've personally moved hundreds of loads over
three flights of stairs here over three decades. If you get much past
400 pounds or so, stopping the motor essentially means unintentionally
reversing the motion, which is not intended and is BAD, and can lead to
the back touching the stairs and pushing the whole load off the edge of
the step as it slides down and the back of it starts acting as a lever.
And you'd have to have rocks in your head to think that even one out of
five stairs in this world can hold 1,200 pounds and I'd hate to be
there to see when you learn about the other four. If it's wood, it
can't hold 1,200 pounds, if it's carpeted you can't see what's under
and it probably can't and the feet will dig WAY into the carpet/carpet
padding and some metal part might snag on and bind on the carpet
(causing you to fall), if it's tile or Mexican or Spanish tile it will
very likely crack and possibly slip off the step and all three of you
(the machine, the load, and YOU) will go tumbling down the stairs. Even
if it's an external concrete staircase, the kind you might see at large
apartment complexes where you can see between the stairs, it's dumb to
think that's going to hold 1,200 pounds. Please use some common sense,
1,200 pounds is well more than half a ton, more than half a metric ton,
this is EXTREME weight that few interior floors can even withstand, and
these machines get very, uhm, exciting to use over about 400 pounds.
And the danger here comes long before going up or down stairs. You
can't even break back the load if it's 1,200 pounds, and heaven help
you if you did because it could keep going and smash you against the
ground underneath it, like having three Harleys on top of you. Even a
400 pound load is very difficult when trying to break back the load,
and trying to let that load stand back upright if on the landing
between staircases is SCARY (often with the outer part of the load
still hanging out over the stairs you just came up) because it will
drop like a rock, possibly flipping you over forwards.
If you can't tip it to break the load back without too much strain AND
set it back down GENTLY, beware before starting on the stairs, bad
things can start to happen and when they do there is nothing you can do
about it. There are times that you have to hold the machine/load almost
upright on the stairs for a moment, and if your body is not heavier
than the load and machine combined (and it rarely will be, but ideally
it should be not more than 300 pounds versus 200 pounds or something
like that, just consider the physics here) you will have an almost
impossible time of trying to stop it from tipping over and falling down
the stairs, possibly pulling you over with it if you are still
unfortunately hanging on to it and still counting on that nonsense
"1200 lb" sticker.
In my experience, my most common moves are 5' tall items that range
from 150-275 pounds, and the machines are superb in moving those, the
200 pounders I could move over the stairs with a drink in my left hand
if I wanted to, and it's a joy to do. Over 300-350 pounds, it requires
a lot more care and attention, but I still do those from time to time.
The 400-450 pound loads are somewhat uncommon for me, and it is almost
impossible to break that load back without looking like a cartoon
character trying to pull his own arm off, and setting it back down is
nerve racking, as it could tip over toward the opposite side and there
would be little I could do to stop it. And even at 400 pounds, it's
almost impossible to roll it over a door jamb/threshold.
Over 400 pounds, I usually won't even do it on difficult stairs unless
I have someone to spot me and make SURE it doesn't tip over backwards
or slide back down the stairs. And the RLA-EW model portable forklift
says 1,200 pounds, but with a large, well-balanced 800 pound load the
forks are noticeably bending down forward, these can NOT safely hold
1,200 pounds, and even at 850 pounds the thing can barely lift anymore
and is blowing fuses, meaning if you don't have a replacement fuse with
you then you are stuck in place right then and there (and yes, I've had
to leave one just like that, outdoors for two hours while I left and
found some way to get it moving again). Notice that other brands of
hand trucks and stair climbers don't claim anything within rocket range
of 1,200 pounds, so please use some common sense here.
Condition:New
Brand:Synhouse
Model:Escalera
MPN:NA
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