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Raymond SA Swing-Reach... Lemon?

We have a 4 year old Raymond SA swing-reach, with approx. 4500 hours that has been experiencing intermittent glitches that require at least 4 to 8 hours of down time a month. The problems started about a year ago, and even though we have a service contract, and the scheduled maintenance is always performed, the glitches still pop up. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
  • Posted 1 Dec 2006 02:45
  • By sean_p
  • joined 1 Dec'06 - 2 messages
  • Ontario, Canada
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Ps. And more and more and more and more...
  • Posted 4 Dec 2006 11:53
  • By mike_n
  • joined 11 Feb'06 - 138 messages
  • Alberta, Canada
'Lemon' is a harsh word...

The more complex a unit, the more things can go wrong.
Raymond loves to make there units as complicated as possible.

If it's a re-occuring problem, then a good tech should be able to get to the root cause.

However, my experience with Raymonds says that you should expect more and more and more failures/glitches as the unit ages.
  • Posted 4 Dec 2006 11:52
  • By mike_n
  • joined 11 Feb'06 - 138 messages
  • Alberta, Canada
what kind of glitches?
  • Posted 1 Dec 2006 10:57
  • By justinm
  • joined 13 Apr'06 - 604 messages
  • New York, United States

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