Do you sleep easy knowing your jack is made in China?

moparmat2000 said
$29 china freight cheap ****. Notice the stamped side frames and weak assed manufacturing. Not sure if this is what your using or not.

Last pic is the china freight Daytona 3 ton. $129. Apparently this jack was compared to a Snap On 3 ton jack. Now being I am a hobbyist I will go with the $129 over the prob $600 snap on jack.

I guess you get what you pay for.

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Mine is the same jack by pictures. It was purchased at a name brand store back when Larin was semi-name brand, right when the Chinese Invasion began. At the time, there were many American-made jacks that were similar, and I'd used many of them, but the metal was stronger, and I'm sure that there were other corners cut on this jack.

Big_John said
Per Eric Simdt, CEO of Harbor Freight, the Daytona jack is built at the same factory with the same features as the Snap-On. Snap-On buys their jack from a distributor that buys the jack from the factory.

You see an awful lot of shops with Daytona jacks... and not just one, but several of them.

It's a moot point for me. My Sears jack that I bought about 1975 is still going strong.

I don't care if it's from the same plant or not. I don't trust the Chinese stuff, never will. Maybe it comes from the same plant, just from the 'reject' pile. You never know and can't trust 'em.

my68barracuda said
Ever notice that folks have preconceived concerns with the quality and durability of Chinese built hard parts like hydraulic jacks and hand tools, but have no quality concerns with the Chinese built cell phones, computers and flat screen tv’s that they use every day.

Of the three items you list, none will physically crush a person through failure.

And I try to buy non-Chinese on that stuff as well.