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Hello everyone,

After having a close call moving a cabinet down a flight of stairs, for the past few months I have been searching for a stair climbing dolly. Hunting up and down facebook marketplace I was searching for a Escalera, Lectrotruck, or a PowerMate. My budget was about $1000 and it turns out its next to impossible to find anything in that range. Anything that was listed for that price almost imediately sells. and I had a few times where a seller would initially respond to me and would then ghost as I assume someone offered more than asking. I had no idea this would be harder than picking up a $250 Defender!

But atlast, This guy came through my feed, $200 for a complete lectrotruck in "Good working condition". I Imediately saw through that but the price was good enough even though it was a two hour drive. Thankfully a bit of luck was on my side and I was on the road a few hours later. When I see it in person it was as bad as I thought it was but the battery was completely flat so I couldnt even verify that it moved. Non the less I took a gamble on it and brought it home. Once home I looked over the entire thing, The lead screw was greased with heavy grease, something the manual specifically says NOT to do, and the battery appears to be from the 80s, and cracked open, so there wasnt a chance this ever worked when in the sellers posession.

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The unit is straight and does not appear to be abused, so I went straight to tearing everything down. My goal is to go through every moving part, relubricate it and repaint the really crusty sections to both make it look a bit better as well as remove all the rust scale on the toe plate, having a rough metal surface on a set of hardwoods would be an excelent way to destroy them. Initially I did not think this was a Lectrotruck as it was only labeled with "Woodward 60HD", looking it up online provided 0 results however I emailed Lectrotruck and he plesently responded saying that a majority of the parts are still avalible! He even sent me the original manual (see attached), I suspect this unit to be one of the first ones built between 1970 and 1973 before Woodward rebranded to Lectrotruck.
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