lincoln no longer makes floor jacks?

Got a little $$ for xmas, thought I would buy myself a GOOD floor jack to replace the ancient Craftsman 2-ton and completely flimsy Chinese mini floor jack that I've been getting by with. I remember Lincoln as supposedly making a good floor jack, but a quick web search seems to indicate that they're out of the jack biz. Who's currently making GOOD floor jacks?

nate

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Nate Nagel
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I'm pretty happy with my Craftsman after several years. It seems similar to this one:

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(I hope that deep link works. At some point they turned the front page of craftsman.com into a fine example of the Flash Puppet Theatre school of user interface design. Don't get me started.)

For another hundred bucks you can get Craftsman Professional, which seems to be a pretty similar jack with a lower minimum height and slightly higher maximum -- not much, but the man who owns both a Porsche and a pickup might want to measure and consider this.

Also, if you've still got the Lincoln jack rather than just nostalgia for it, you might want to look on the Web and see if rebuild kits for the hydraulic parts are available...

--Joe

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Ad absurdum per aspera

You might find the older heavy duty floor jack on the craigs list type venues in your locality. I don't really know if the old ones are better than a good new one, but they used to build real solid ones. My BIL had an old 3 or 4-ton in his garage that was leaking down. Had about 2' lift. The check valve was a ball bearing and it and the seat were pitted. I bought a couple same sized ball bearings and had one welded onto a welding rod. Used that to grind the seat, and dropped the other in as the new check. Found some Teflon packing close to the size of the old stuff. Worked well, but I think he told me the packing was leaking a couple years later. Never trust a jack to hold - not even for the few seconds it takes to slide in the jack stands - and use good strong jack stands. So you really shouldn't be paying an arm and a leg for a floor jack. Unless you're just that way (-:

--Vic

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Vic Smith

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Hein-Warner is the new name of the Lincoln line. When Lincoln sold off the line in the late 90's a Chinese company took over. A few years later this company brought back the Hein-Warner name BUT they also started the old plant in the US up to make them. The old plant in question, Lincoln...

So what you have now is a Lincoln design jack with a Hein-Warner name on it, made in the US.

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The Lincoln jacks they list show the NEW model number if they are still made here.

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Steve W.

Watch out for the craftsman professionals. Some of them do NOT hold up and they do NOT have a good warranty anymore. I've got one sitting out front that no longer holds fluid and it's not even two years old. A google search revealed that I'm hardly alone as far as this jack model (3 ton, quick lift).

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Ashton Crusher

I remember Lincoln as

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Looks supisciously like the 50+ year-old one I have in the garage... Built like a tank. Don Byrer KJ5KB Power & Glider Pilot Guy kj5kb-at-hotmail.com

"I have slipped the surly bonds of earth; now if I can just land without bending the gear..." "Watch out for those doves..."

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Don Byrer

I've owned 2 of the old Hein Warners w/ the removable handle. They will fit into a trunk but don't carry it around all the time unless you have 3/4 ton axles on your car, they are heavy. The ones made by Lincoln with the removable handle look like the old Hein Warner. Well if they are going to use the name they might as well use the design too. I think it has been a favorite of many for many years. I know it's still mine. Now I have to find some bucks to get another one.

Disston

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disston

One would think that the new name would be Rincon. ;-)

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Paul Hovnanian P.E.

Nate,

I have a 30 year old Walker that I have rebuilt one time and it still works fine. It looks like most of the name brand, (commercial jacks if you will), are now under the ?Hein Werner? umbrella.

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My second/extra/back up floor jack took a dump, and I am looking for a floor jack. I will be buying one that is as close to/better then the Walker as I can get. It is a 30 year old Walker 1 ½ ton floor jack. (tank green/yellow handle).

Measurements: Front wheels 3 ¾? high (the lifting pad is a little lower). Width: 11 5/8? (O.D. front wheels). Width: 13 ¼? (O.D. back wheels). Length: 28 ½? (O.D. front to back wheels). Lifting height:

20?. The lifting pad is 6 ¼? by 6 ¼?. The tag reads ?Walker Hy draulic Service Jack? J 122. Series A. Range 3 ¾? to 20?. 3000 lbs.

It?s very stable. It is has a low profile, (which you want). Giving it a rating from 1 to 10, with ten being the highest, it is a 9.9! I use it at least once a day, and sometimes it seems like 30 times a day.

Willy.

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thenitedude

No offence, but one like this is not what "you" want.

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thenitedude

What I think happened was that commercial shops wanted US made jacks that worked. Although I do have a cheap one that I modified to do door and panel work. The lighter weight and adding a wider set of wheels made a big difference. Added a saddle adapter for the other adapters.

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Steve W.

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