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Hi all, I'd like to share my pneumatic tail lift design. Lowered and tipped down. Raised. Closed. It's now 15 studs wide (can easily be made wider but not much narrower) and will fit to vehicle that has bed at 10 or 11 studs high from ground. As pneumatic cylinders are 7 .. 10.5 studs long, I had to make the static arm just over 7 studs long in order to be able to tip the platform down slightly. Also the air hose nozzles had to face upwards for ground clearance, so the black arm needs to make a 90 degree angle to leave room for tubes. The lift is powerful enough, and as always with pneumatics, you have to be careful operating it, particularly tipping the platform up and down. I'm not terribly pleased with the platform, as it is of even width, and so you can't really have a large panel there without breaking symmetry. Here's a video of it. The red beams represent the body of a vehicle, grey ones holding them just supporting elements. Here's the LDD file. (Don't pay attention to pins and axles in the platform, they're not realistic.) I hope you find the design useful for your own creations. Any improvement ideas are warmly welcome (especially regarding the platform)! BR, Ari