Are they any good?
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200313386_200313386
No, but I like the looks of them...pinned and made of aluminum so they are light.
I picked up 4 jack stands the other day at an estate sale but they were the screw type and either aluminum or alloy for a outrageously cheap price of $5.
Dave
I have 4 Harbor Freight Aluminum jack stands in my 'track kit'. I have never had to use them or the aluminum "race jack" that I bought with them but my god they're gorgeous!
Interesting comment in the ad. One guy liked the "small footprint". Smaller footprint means a more tippy jackstand. Long as they are used with that thought in mind they should be OK.
No, I don't have those, but I'd like to.
I have 2 of them and I love them. I use other blocks of wood and a jack 1/4" off of contact since I live in SoCal.
They are gorgeous, light and I put them under the front doughnuts, but I always have other things to catch the car in case we get a 7.4 or stronger.
I also spend as little time under the car as possible.
I want to drive the car, not cushion it!
John
I have some BluePoint stands that are awefully similar looking. They don't go very high, but they work great when I use them. Never had any stability problems.
I like aluminum stands as their light weight makes them good travel stands.
The aluminum ones I have have wide bases which I prefer, especially if needing to use them on a less than ideal (read - flat) surface.
For home/shop, the heavy duty ones are fine, don't need to be light weight.
The ones shown look nice and I like that they are pinned, but I don't like the small bases ...
Consider that a jackstand base is only as stable as its smallest flat sides. I just measured a set of 'small' clicky harbor freight jackstands and they're 6.5" from flat to flat. My BluePoints are 7" across. So the BluePoints are more stable.
The link above lists...
Got a set for christmas, haven't taken them out of the box yet.
I looked at them, but haven't bought because I have a set of 2 old school steel pin type wide framed square base stands which are pretty stable that I'd like to match with some garage sale types - since nobody apparently makes that type anymore.
Another option is the sets of 2 or 4 aluminum screw-type wide base stands which Camping World online sells for trailers for $22 & $45 respectively IIRC. Look online at their website.
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