Cool tools: Creepex creeper

[Kaido]

Neat!

http://creepex.com/

$179 - base model
$229 - soft body with lights
$739 - rollbar model (30,000-pound capacity tube steel frame)

 

[gorcorps]

I'm sure it works well enough, but I don't buy their demos. I don't physically understand how it can go over cables any better than the others... other than the extra speed they gave their own to get over the thing that the competitor didn't get. And making absolute sure they were lined up right, while the other one was at an odd angle.

I get the extra stability when you only have one caster instead of a lot of casters when wrenching though.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'm sure it works well enough, but I don't buy their demos. I don't physically understand how it can go over cables any better than the others... other than the extra speed they gave their own to get over the thing that the competitor didn't get. And making absolute sure they were lined up right, while the other one was at an odd angle.

I get the extra stability when you only have one caster instead of a lot of casters when wrenching though.

I don't know the math, but bigger wheels have an advantage for that. Towards the end you can see him "pop a wheelie" to get the head wheel up and over the cable.

I'm apparently too fat to be a mechanic.

 

[Squisher]

I'm apparently too fat to be a mechanic.

I've always disliked giving up the couple of inches of elbow room that using any creeper does.

I don't know how if it would be practical, but I've always thought if they made a stick on piece of Teflon or some other sort of slick plastic or have it sewed on to the back of your shirt and you mated it with a thick plastic drop cloth you put under the car you'd have the best of both worlds. I don't know if you'd lose so much traction though that it would make you lose leverage when trying to break a bolt loose.

Obviously this is before any lab testing on my part.