Introduced in 2011 on the Rotary Lift SmartLift® inground lift, TRIO Arms provide all the capabilities of regular three-stage arms in a more versatile package. On TRIO Arms, the third telescoping arm segment is replaced with an integrated lightweight sliding adapter assembly. This design enables technicians to easily interchange truck adapters, round polymer adapters or three-position flip-up adapters depending on the job at hand. The adapters can be rotated 360 degrees and easily slide along the lift arm, enabling technicians to make precise adjustments to the adapter location when setting up the lift.
“In order to properly engage a vehicle’s pick-up points, technicians using regular three-stage arms have to move the heavy innermost stage into place while reaching under the vehicle on their hands and knees,” says Bob Ford, new product development manager for Rotary Lift. “With TRIO Arms, the technician can simply slide the lightweight adapter itself to the desired position. There’s less telescoping needed, which saves time, reduces technician stress and can help get the vehicle in the air more quickly. The SPOA10TRIO lift is just one more example of how for the last 90 years Rotary Lift has been always innovating, not imitating.”
While most two-post lifts are sold in a variety of configurations determined by application, the SPOA10TRIO’s ability to easily switch between flip-up adapters for body-on-frame vehicles, round polymer adapters for unibody vehicles, and thread-up truck adapters makes it a more universal lift.
“With TRIO Arms, all adapters are interchangeable, so the ordering process is simpler,” says Ford. “For maximum versatility, customers can order the SPOA10TRIO lift with all three sets of adapters, allowing technicians to easily service a wide range of vehicles using a single lift.”
With 10,000 lbs. of lifting capacity, the SPOA10TRIO two-post lift is ideal for servicing most cars, light trucks, SUVs and vans. It features a true asymmetric design, with rotated columns that hold the vehicle with the center of gravity toward the rear of the bay. This positions the vehicle’s doors behind the columns, so technicians can open and close the doors with less worry of dinging them.
The SPOA10TRIO two-post lift is available with another Rotary Lift innovation: Shockwave™ technology. Shockwave-equipped lifts feature rise and descent times that are twice as fast as other lifts, which means technicians can complete more jobs each day. They are battery-powered and have onboard chargers, so the lifts work during power outages and there is no need to run expensive 220V wiring. Shockwave-equipped lifts also come with Rotary Lift’s exclusive Spotline™ laser spotting guide that makes it easy to center a vehicle between the lift columns.
TRIO Arms were engineered at Rotary Lift’s world headquarters in Madison, Ind., and performance tested to 20,000 lift cycles, which is the equivalent of 10 years of real-world use. The SPOA10TRIO two-post lift has been third-party tested and Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) certified to meet ANSI lift safety and performance standards.
To learn more about Rotary Lift’s 90-year history of innovation and to watch a video of the SPOA10TRIO lift in action, visit www.rotarylift.com/innovation. For more information about the lift, contact your local distributor or call (800) 640-5438. You can also find Rotary Lift on Facebook, www.facebook.com/RotaryLift and Twitter, twitter.com/RotaryLift. For more videos, visit www.rotarylift.com/News-and-Resources/Video-Library.
About Rotary Lift
Rotary Lift is the leading brand of vehicle lifts designed to increase technician productivity. Celebrating 90 years in 2015, Rotary Lift was founded in 1925 by the inventor of the first automotive hydraulic lift and now offers the broadest line of lifts for use in professional automotive service, commercial truck and transit applications. There are more Rotary Lift products used in vehicle repair facilities around the world than any other brand.
Rotary Lift is a Vehicle Service Group (VSG) brand. VSG comprises nine global 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, Indiana, VSG has operations worldwide, including ISO 9001-certified manufacturing centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. VSG is part of the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corporation, a multi-billion-dollar, global producer of innovative equipment, specialty systems and value-added services.
