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Acorn Superglide 130 Carriage removal
I am planning to buy a used straight stairlift with an automatic folding hinge. It will probably be an Acorn Superglide 130 T700, as I could most easily find technical documentation for it. I am an enthusiastic craftsman and have a lot of experience with electronics, but unfortunately I have no practical experience with stairlifts.
I read installation manual and also rail cutting instructions and I think I can do it. Since I did not found a deinstallation manual I watched videos on YouTube showing the removal of an Acorn Stairlift. In both videos, the Carriage is removed from the Rail by removing the two upper stoppers and then simply driving the Carriage carefully upwards with the remote control until it signals with a strong jerk and a loud noise that the gear rack has come to an end. At this point it seems that you can carefully pull the lift up the rail until it can be removed. However, I have also read the recommendation to leave the Carriage on one of the rails when removing it. In this case I don’t need to thread the heavy Carriage into rail and gear rack afterwards. The installation manual describes only the initial installation and I never saw factory installation rails with plastic pieces for Carriage installation when looking for used stairlifts.
So should I remove the Carriage or leave it on one of the rails?
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