True enough!
It says "Made in Canada" on it.
I'm no engineer like some of you so I was wondering as I cranked on the tough little rascal with a pipe extension. When I felt like I was approaching the breaking point of [i:2d9a777353]something[/i:2d9a777353]
like maybe the housing plate itself, or a tooth off the jack drive, I'd stop and heat.
Cheers,
T
On the raised lettering:
Made in Canada
Auto Spec Mfg Co
Windsor, On (Ontario)
Even though I bent that top bar around the jack's foot
it held it's ground even for as thin as it is . . . just the right hardness. That flat bar was just soft poorly chromed Chinese from a bumper hitch setup. It already had one hole at one end.
The jack's pinion gear drive hole is a tapering square
and by some fluke of nature, I have an old IHC engine cranker that's a straight bar with this tapered drive at the other end. My adjustable wrench stayed tight with each purchase because I could slide it back snug on that long tapered point. Lucky finds all around.
Having the long bar in my left and the pipe and wrench in the other, meant I could go easier on the gear meshing, keep the old and sloppy gears tighter with some upward pressure.
I lost the top boot off this jack screw a while back, or I never had it. No wait a minute, I took it off for some reason like this.
But with today's use, Little Jack has earned his keep, finally paid off big time. So it was a natural to think of grinding a nice tapered point on the screw for this purpose.
I'm thinking I might have picked up that crank bar wherever I got this jack 40 years ago. I think maybe someone cut the handle off a normal engine crank and made the tapered square point for this jack.