What's with YouTube videos say to bend jack stand tab for safety. Is that for real or just so much hoohaw?
why bend jack stand tab for safety
- Thread starter borgward
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It's just to keep the bar with teeth from falling out of the base. For example, you pick it up by the bar and the base falls off and lands on your foot.
I just use my brain to avoid hurting my toes. So many times people post don't or do this without saying why.
So the manufacturers don't get sued when someone drops the base or cradle on their foot...
This is confusing. The tabs are put there by the manufacturer to prevent the base from falling off or the tabs are being bent to prevent base from falling off? Tabs are bent so the 2 sections can be taken apart?
You bend the tab to prevent it from falling off the base.
The stands are shipped in the box with the base and the post as separate parts.
Assembly calls for the post to be inserted into the base, and the tabs bent inward.
Doing so is meant to prevent the two parts from separating, whatever the circumstance, and keep the stand as a fully-assembled product.
Assembly calls for the post to be inserted into the base, and the tabs bent inward.
Doing so is meant to prevent the two parts from separating, whatever the circumstance, and keep the stand as a fully-assembled product.
I am confused that the videos you watched, didn't state the reason?
I don't bend mine in, because I like to live on the edge.
It's not really that, I just want to be able to easily take the column out to inspect the pawl and column teeth every now and then, and I'm familiar with gravity so I carry them by the base with the column oriented upward.
I don't bend mine in, because I like to live on the edge.
It's not really that, I just want to be able to easily take the column out to inspect the pawl and column teeth every now and then, and I'm familiar with gravity so I carry them by the base with the column oriented upward.What box? I just looked at the stand. There's a sticker on the side - "Bend this tab ..." nice to know. Easier carrying.
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