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Time marches on. I am not a student of Harbor Freight, in fact am horrified by the whole thing. I wouldn't have bought this if I'd realized it was an HF product, but now I have it and I'm enough of an opportunist to not reject something that works and is already home, even if it is orange. But...

Thanks, Scooter. thirty years sounds entirely plausible. Mine has several rectangular shadows where the paint color is a bit lighter which suggested long-gone stickers.

All stickers have long since fallen off, come unstuck. I think the leaking oil from the jack dissolved the adhesive. The only marks I've found were T.L on the foot of the jack, and TE on the horizontal U-channel section.

I know. Pretty weird. I wouldn't have thought to classify it that way, until the patina fooled me. But you tell me - what criteria determine whether something is vintage? What is the cutoff?

I picked this up yesterday, and the patina at first obscured its HF lineage (for me). Does anyone here know approximately when this might have been manufactured? It looks like 1977 was when Harbor Freight started. Any insights are appreciated.

Actually the older ones shipped in steel boxes read Chelsea, MA More recent ones in blow-molded boxes say Chelsea, MA USA And the presumably current ones say Stoughton, MA USA I can't vouch for where the second of these three was made (waiting for mine so labeled to arrive) but think it is...