Thanks for posting this, i have the 3-ton part number. I wonder if anyone knows if they already have the replacement available?
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Originally Posted by soundman98
people genuinely only leave 1 failure point, purchased at the lowest cost, by a company well known to produce with the lowest bidder between them and 3,000 pounds of metal?
HF should really change their name to Darwin Tools..
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another reason to weight reduction
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Originally Posted by extrashaky
QC should have caught the problem. However, notice that all the articles talk about potential failure, not an actual failure. It may have gone that long without being detected because the stands didn't actually fail for that long. Or at all.
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the Harbor freight notice says "...while under load and with a shift in weight..."
People put down Harbor Freight but not everyone can afford all tool truck prices, even as a professional technician, spending 10-20k on tools is absurd for a profession with average salary below 40k.
no one will know how the 11 injured people got it to occur, but how does the
weight shift ? using all your might on a big prybar to some pain-in-the-asz suspension ? banging on a brake drum? friend messing around and shaking the vehicle?
after putting the weight on stands, I always position the floor jack under something, tight and in place to support the weight. I also use tires or other large/strong objects as back ups in case the jack stand fails---why...because It doesn't matter how much you paid for something, it can still fail. Just because you don't hear about a recall on some more high end jack stands, doesn't mean they have never failed.