Frame machines, still used?

With the prevalence of uni-bodies do body shops still have use for frame machines?
Ivan Vegvary

On Friday, November 1, 2013 9:43:20 PM UTC-7, Ivan Vegvary wrote:
>
> With the prevalence of uni-bodies do body shops still have use for
> frame machines?
>
I don't know what body shops used for body-on-frame vehicles, but they
have machines to straighten unibodies that use air jacks and chains to
pull the unibody straight. Another type of machine consists of a big
metal platform that goes under the car, and where I used to live there
was a guy who had one in a garage in his back yard, something like this,
only his had 4 arms in the corners that could pivot horizontally:

http://autobodyshop.com/images/signature-cjj-450.jpg

Ivan Vegvary wrote:
> With the prevalence of uni-bodies do body shops still have use for frame machines?
> Ivan Vegvary

Yep still used. Lot's of work on a unibody can be done on a frame table.

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Steve W.