The little notches on aluminum jack stands scare me. Aluminum fractures much
more readily than steel.
Bob Kramer
Volente, TX
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence.
Vince Lombardi
----- Original Message -----
From: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
To: "Justin Wagner" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] jack stands
> We always should leave a floor jack up in case of a problem..That's common
> safety stuff for Car Guys.... Chinese products have a Bad Track
> Record!...RB
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Wagner" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
> To: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
> Cc: "Rob" <19to1tr6@comcast.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] jack stands
>
>
>> I'd trust those stands over a hell of a lot of the other stands and
>> odd-non-stand-objects I have used over the years to secure a car.
>> Besides, I've always made it a habit of putting other items under the car
>> to support it if a stand failed... i.e. a floor jack (jacked up just shy
>> of the frame)... big ol' tires and rims from a 4x4... etc. etc.
>>
>> And I've always made a habit of giving a car on stands a good little
>> hand-made california tremor... as a test... before I put my body under
>> it.
>>
>> In all these years, the only jack-stand screw up I've ever had... was...
>> at 16... lowering my just-garage-painted-and-restored TR4A all the way to
>> the ground just as I noticed that when I had pulled out the jackstands, I
>> had accidentally left one perfectly centered and directly under the front
>> valance.
>>
>> I never repaired that valance. One really couldn't see the crumple zone
>> behind the front license place. (I wonder if whoever owns that car now
>> ever fixed it?)
>>
>> On my current TR4A, that I bought in the 90's, the front valance was
>> damaged and I replaced it with a TR250 valance so that I would get
>> similar extra cooling from the vent that the earlier car's crumple zone
>> provided. : )
>>
>>
>> --Justin
>>
>>
>>
>> RACER BUD wrote:
>>
>>> find out if they are made in China..no sarcasm intended here...I just
>>> don't want to get under a car that is supported by a product made in a
>>> country that we know sends us bad stuff(lead in toys, etc)....Racer
>>> Bud..Spitfire #21
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob" <19to1tr6@comcast.net>
>>> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:49 PM
>>> Subject: [Fot] jack stands
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am wondering what members think about Harbor freights Aluminum Jack
>>>> stands
>>>> They weigh 3lbs and will support 1.5 ton. I like the idea of hauling
>>>> less
>>>> weight to the track the van is usually over wght. as it is Anyone
>>>> using these
>>>> stands ? thanks rob
>>>>
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