“Hans, I vas styling der neiu Kampfwagen prototype but all I had vas a ruler.”

wow. and none of them look like a doorstop? don’t show elon...

I think you hit the (rusty) nail on the head. There is definitely an area of the country where cars are prone to rusting - mostly due to shitty weather and copious use of salt to deal with said shitty weather. Maybe it’s shear ironic coincidence that one of our nation’s largest salt-producing regions - the Great Lakes…

It became known as the rust belt because of the decline in the steel industry in what was previously known as the steel belt. Rust is a metaphor.

Yeah, when “that certain crowd” weighs in with the physics of the thread torque and the offense to humanity to use a little anti-seize of some sort?

An engineering manager I long ago worked for hypothesized there is actually only one tablespoon of neverseize in the whole world.  I just keeps getting spread around thinner and thinner.  

For the average home wrencher, an 8oz container of anti-seize will last until approximately the year 2700.

Forget how well it does at keeping nuts from seizing, I want to know how hard it is to clean. I get a single drop on the tip of my pinky finger and an hour later I look like the Tin Man. Then months later, I pick up a sock that happened to be the garage at the time of my adventures in Oz and I end up repeating my…

Your exact reply included such choice phrases as: “Seriously?” and “stupid little pins don’t look like they’ll hold shit” and “3 points of floor contact is a lot less stable than 4". And you’re asking someone else to “Chill dude”? You pretend like everyone else is acting crazy when you’re the one that first responded…

I have these exact stands, you have no idea of what you’re talking about.

Damn that blows. The whole appeal of that show was that it was literally just two dudes on a roadtrip with some POS cars. 

That’s a clevis pin, being used for its intended purpose.

The cotter pin is taking NONE of the downward pressure, because the cotter pin is not what’s holding the adjustable portion in place. That’s a clevis pin, being used for its intended purpose.

With every comment you make, the extent of your ignorance is displayed ever more clearly. You obviously know jack shit about manufacturing.

ESCO stands are some of the best out there. Nothing HF sells is manufactured to this standard.

The main posts are not hollow. They are solid steel. The legs are probably hollow but the standard jack stand design uses sheet metal. So these are much stronger. And look at how much surface area those circular pads have. Significantly more than those little stamped steel legs that cheap jack stands use.

It is all on the grade of steel used

Come on my Harbor Freight pacemaker is just as good as —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-sorry kinda passed out on the keyboard again

Really good point. My jack stands are Autozone brand (Duralast) and I wondered if they were the same stands with just different paint on them. I went and checked them against the photo of the recalled stands, and there are some clear differences in the design. Reassuring.

A few points - definitely check these if you have them, and get them returned. Pay attention to the teeth on the stand bar too, I’ve seen some of them that are very shallow - this may be the thing causing the recall, the forming dies for the teeth are getting worn on the tooling.