Floor Jack Saddle

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I was going to let someone borrow my 2 TON trolley floor jack today but found it missing the saddle assembly. Does anyone know where these might be sold? If I can't find one I will have to just make one.

 
Someone borrowed mine and lost that piece as well. I made one from stock from the shop I worked at.
 
Originally Posted By: tig1
Someone borrowed mine and lost that piece as well. I made one from stock from the shop I worked at.

Before I became disabled I ran a pipe fab shop in FL. I used to make all kinds of stuff.
That's not the case now. I will have to get my cousins help on making one if I can't buy one.
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I used a 3/8 x 5" round plate, 4 pieces 1/4 x 1" key stock, and a 1" x 3/4 round stock. Then welded it all together.
 
Have we learned anything about lending tools??

Someone well off said to only lend money if you can afford to never get it back. (This person did lend money to a point, she was generous I would say).

With respect to tools?
 
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Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
Before I became disabled I ran a pipe fab shop in FL. I used to make all kinds of stuff.

See I knew that you messed with O-Beam on a regular basis at one time.
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Originally Posted By: tig1
I used a 3/8 x 5" round plate, 4 pieces 1/4 x 1" key stock, and a 1" x 3/4 round stock. Then welded it all together.

My design is similar. 1/4" X 3" flat steel plate, 4 pieces OF 1/2" X 1" rebar, and a piece of 1" sch. 80 black pipe X 1" long. Then mig weld it together.
Only if I can't find one.
 
How is that part attached??? I thought it wasn't removable. Why would one remove it anyway?
 
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
How is that part attached??? I thought it wasn't removable. Why would one remove it anyway?

That part I am unsure of. I just know it's not there now.
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Originally Posted By: JHZR2
How is that part attached??? I thought it wasn't removable. Why would one remove it anyway?


some of them just sit in a recessed hole with a matching solid piece welded on the bottom of the saddle. It could have fallen out when he lifted it onto a truck bed.
 
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Originally Posted By: spasm3
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
How is that part attached??? I thought it wasn't removable. Why would one remove it anyway?


some of them just sit in a recessed hole with a matching solid piece welded on the bottom of the saddle. It could have fallen out when he lifted it onto a truck bed.


On all the floor jacks at Sears, the saddle just sits there. You can easily pull it off.
 
My neighbor down the road has a few saddles laying around. What is the ID of the hole on the jack?
 
Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
Yes 2010_FX4, for 32 years I was a pipefighter/welder.
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8 of them while being a weekend warrior in the USAR.
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In another life, I worked maintenance and construction in the heavy petrochemical world and supervised the installation of miles of "O-Beam"; these days the "O's" I manage are in the form of 1's and 0's
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Originally Posted By: spasm3
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
How is that part attached??? I thought it wasn't removable. Why would one remove it anyway?


some of them just sit in a recessed hole with a matching solid piece welded on the bottom of the saddle. It could have fallen out when he lifted it onto a truck bed.


That's right. Mine was lost when the jack was carried in a open trailer.
 
Here are the pics of mine. I made this several years ago and missed the stock size a bit from memory.



 
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