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Amazon has several sellers offering replacement felt media for this type of compressor. Search: "26517 filter" An upgraded element kit is described (and sold) at https://mastertoolrepair.com/air-filtery-assby-w-element-0e360c/ In the 1980s, Grainger sold an intake that bolted onto the head in...

I've been exchanging e-mail with Steve from Hydraulic Parts Supply, and he's just waiting for us to disassemble the hydraulic unit again and get him the dimensions. He's got a full inventory of the various seals, packings, and cups. After bleeding him for information, buying my parts from him...

Thank you! Following up on that. Will post the results, if any.

So far, at least, both Hiball and his go-to-guy Steve have been unable to recognize it. I've spent hours on Lazzar's HCRC website scanning through service literature looking for anything similar. Nothing close at-all, so far. As for the wing-tips... They don't have steel toes nor paint...

There was briefly some conjecture about our mystery-jack being an import; an immigrant; maybe arriving as part of some caravan of floor-jacks rolling across the border. Cleaning the lid of the reservoir helped set that straight. Looks like it came from the Usa manufacturing precinct on the...

Finally scraped the gunk off the reservoir, and found a few numbers. 12-11 is a date code, with no year. CJ301-40 could be a model-part# format, but haven't found one that matches it yet. R ┼ 1 is probably just a casting identifier.

Thanks for that follow-up! It gives us some leads to chase. We keep hoping we'll find a name or a number on one of the parts. So far, about all we can determine is that it was pretty low production - almost prototype - as some of the parts were pretty clearly hand-modified to fit. It still...

This jack has some history as a lifesaver, too: It was once used to lift a pickup truck off a guy, when passers-by found him with the truck having slipped off its jack-stands. It wouldn't fit where they first wanted to place it, which was good, as that would have dropped the truck further.

Thanks! I've been working on getting some better photos. I hope these will help. Original color was definitely red. The 4-bolt casters seem to be quite unique.

In scanning through all the different photos on the web, this jack looks more similar to Snap-On or Westward models. None of them exhibit the aluminum castings, however, and other details also differ.

"Helped" a friend whose garage is way too clean, by suggesting he needed this capable-looking floor jack I saw on CL. He bought it. It worked as purchased, but leaked, of course. He's had it all apart, cleaned everything, honed the bores, and got it back together. We'll see later whether the...