#HARBOR FREIGHT JACK STANDS FULL#
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#HARBOR FREIGHT JACK STANDS FULL#

If you own these jack stands or any of the jack stands in our original recall, whether or not you have had an issue with them, please stop using them immediately and bring them back to your local Harbor Freight Store for a full cash refund or store credit ( see details here). Unfortunately, this defect wasn't discovered during the initial recall investigation. We're now adding these jack stands to our recall. I'm disappointed and embarrassed because we've identified a welding defect in a small number of the Pittsburgh 3 ton steel jack stands (SKU 56373) that replaced the recalled jack stands. I felt terrible about that recall because you should never have a concern about the safety of any of our products. We asked customers to return them and receive a gift card that could be used to purchase replacement jack stands. So when we have a product recall, it hurts.Ī few months ago, we recalled our Pittsburgh 3 ton and 6 ton steel jack stands (SKUs 56371, 6117) due to a manufacturer's defect. Your trust matters deeply to me and I'm proud of how far we've come. I often reach out to tell you about Harbor Freight's commitment to quality and all the investments we've made to deliver quality tools at the lowest prices. I would fully expect just one of the 2-Ton stands should alone hold my entire civic up in the air (if I was able to balance the car on one stand, and no, I wouldn't crawl under it )

#HARBOR FREIGHT JACK STANDS PLUS#

So now I own no less than 3 pairs of '3-Ton' labeled jack stands (one of them being in fact '6 Ton' per pair) plus one pair of 2-Ton jack stands. The price of a jack stand should not exceed the price of two 16 oz Pumpkin Spice Lattes. But in the end they are heavy chunks of iron, cast, welded, painted, boxed and transported here from Asia and sold for $10 each, so. I return those I find with flaws, such as thin welds, excessive wobbling on the four legs, and any mis-shaped parts, etc. Some may not work out of the box and require a slight repair. These are all made to rather low quality control standards, sometimes looking like made by political prisoners. So I own these too, and they are also definitely a better value than the HF jacks.įor me the most important is my personal inspection of each jack stand I buy. So if the main pawl somehow failed, it could still be held by that bar. While the general quality class of all these is the same, the welds/construction still looks a bit better than HF and they have instead of just a locking pin, a triangular locking bar that actually can hold the shaft on another tooth. The shape of the cradle is of the deeper kind.Īnother pair of even lower priced '3-Ton' jack stands from Home Depot (Pro-Lift) is Made in China and they look basically like the HF stands. These are in my opinion the best cheap Asiatic stands that I saw available in stores. They are different from the HF stands and they are 'Made in Vietnam,' not China.

Quote: 'Each jack stand has a 3 ton lifting capacity with a total lift capacity of 12,000 lbs combined. These Husky '3 Ton' Jack stands have the dimensions and the price close to other '3 ton' stands, not the other manufacturers' 6 Ton jacks, which are rated 'per pair.' But these are rated 3 Ton each. Each jack's post cast says '3 TON,' just like other stands that are actually rated by pair, each really rated 1.5 Ton.

Which is clearly reflected in Home Depot online description. Rating per pair effectively extended the safety margin by a factor of two.īut the Home Depot sells Husky 3-Ton jack stands which are rated 3 ton each, 6-Ton pair.

I suppose all of these jacks were originally designed to hold 3 tons each, and if manufactured correctly, they can. So this is a bit of a mess with load ratings.

Well, now when someone says the rating has to be per pair, maybe they think they don't need to? The problem is that some manufacturers don't say clearly whether it's the pair or each. It is perfectly fine to support one side of the car on one jack stand, as it is also fine to properly put the whole car on four of them. ANSI now mandated that all jack stands are rated by pair, while jack stands always were, are, and will be often used singly, to support one side of the car. It's amazing how much mess is there in the business that's all about safety.

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