I made one out of aluminum for my race jack. It works great as long as I use it. My helpers all seem to ignore it and bend the pinch welds all to heck again. It is a pain to get lined up when you are on grass. The groove in mine is only half the height of the pinch weld so the weld is supposed to hold the weight and it works like planned. I was thinking of making a pair to mount permanently on each side at the front to eliminate having to line up the groove.

I had a really neat one in auto collision class. We had it so when other people were using the chief frame puller to work on another vehicle. We did a lot of structural and non structural work on cars. When we would practice doing are frame repaires we had a 16 gauge 18 and 22 gauge steel that that were then attached to where the pinch weld were located. We welded together some steel plate as Well as some other things so that we would have a jig to help us to be able to Perform the repair.

In class  I modified a jack stand to have some thing siilar to theses. https://www.flyinmiata.com/fm-jack-adapter.html

they allowed us to clamp the pinch weld as well. After I made modified the stands. I drilled into the concrete and used wedge anchors to secure the stands down.

Last edited by True74yamaha (8/18/2016 10:50 PM)

MWM wrote:

What Rudi said!
After comparing a $19 adaptor to a $3 genuine NHL approved puck - I am cutting a slot in the puck! No offence to hockey fans but you do what you gotta do!

Yeah, Ive been kind of looking around for a hockey puck.  The only one I have is a puck that Adam Oates flipped to me from center ice when they were warming up way back in 1990.  I am not parting that.  LOL    I am going to take a puck, tack a board to its side, and run it through my router table.   I did check and the puck seems to fit right inside the cup of the jack.  So, while its not what I was originally thinking, (a metal one with a groove and a pin coated with rubberized undercoating,  I think it will be a very workable solution.