As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was looking at floor jacks as I have concluded people need more than 3, and as Harbor Freight at this time had a 2 ton for 40 bucks, I still thought 40 was a great deal with non donors, as no company sympathizes with poor orphan girls in giving away free things, because people steal what they read here.
Real jacks with quality parts are now quite expensive in the 150 to "I will not spend that much", so I thought of JYG and as I was rummaging around in his salvage stuff, I saw a jack turned over on itself, no handle, was rusty, plugged with chit and I thought I might have a home for that one.
I got to working on it a JYG was wiring a loader, and I found it lifted thing up, let things down and was a bit spongy at the top pump.
JYG looked it over, hammered me a jack handle, noticed on piston was not working, so WD'd it, tapped on it and got it working. He checked the fluid levels and they looked about right, but it probably had some air in it.
Anyway for 20 bucks, I got this 3 ton Pittsburgh jack from Harbor Freight.
I brought it home and there is this stupid cover held in place by 4 Philips head screws that covers up the oil plug fill hole. I got 3 out, got the cover to move like a door, and then used a small vice grip to get that damned screw loose. I swear if I ever was dictator I would outlaw every screw on the planet. You could have Allan head screws and that is it. Screws are the worst invention mankind ever came up with as you can't get them tight and you can't get them loose when they are loose.
Reminds me I now have a wire feed welder and I can now weld a nut on top of a screw on a Remington Rolling Block which will obey once I get a wrench on it.
Meanwhile back at the jack, I got the reservoir open and filled it with hydraulic oil. Pumped it up and let it ooze out the oil, which was black and not the off green that this hydraulic oil was in it was new. Little foamy air bubbles came out, so let her down, and repeated the oil fill in topping it off and no more bubbles, so I think the air is out.
I tried jacking up a stock trailer and it jacked up. Still was a bit spongy on the top, but that is ok as long as it jacks up. I don't think the O rings are bad. See the only thing that goes wrong with a floor jack is not enough oil or O rings go bad. Are pretty simple.
I figure this was some rich farmer who had this and they ordered it out of cheap ass Harbor Freight, they thought it would live the moon, as they put the thing onto some 500,000 pound tractor or combine out in the field and used a cheater bar on the jack handle and broke that, but not before they squirted oil by the seals in the piston.
"Damned jack does not work", they said, and of course it was the jacks fault as 3 tons is 6 thousand pounds, so why would a jack not lift 30,000 pounds as it is jack and all jacks can lift the moon as weight numbers do not mean anything as that is why these fucking farmers are always running their semi's on county highways and busting them up, as these millionaires can spread the cost around on thousands of people to repair roads these assholes are destroying.
Anyway, I got a pretty good jack I think, Will test it out as for some reason I don't use jacks over their weight limit as I don't want to get killed when something falls and I have non donors in which I have to buy new things if I was a dumb fuck destroying the things I have.
Nuff Said
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