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Let see now: 1. It might seem that you are right about the change of company name, line three, four and five all shows signs of being changed in the mold. At least there are clear surrounding all three. Also, it looks upon close inspection, it actually might state "R.V." and not "RV". HOW COOL...

Hi JunkJunky. There are actually no springs on my jack at all. That is to say, someone has mounted a spring to hold up the handle, but that is just because the jack is not functioning properly (the leak and all). I still have the jack, I haven't given up on it (yet). What sort of pictures are...

Well then Hiball, lets carry on! I couldn't help myself, so I decided to have a look at the welds right after work yesterday. Took out my trusted Dremel, and carefully started cutting into the seams. 1, 2 and 3 seams were cut away witout to much hazzle, but the end result was not as I expected...

FINALLY! The outside temperature is rising, the list of critical "to-be-done" tasks have been shortened somewhat, so last night I took an hour to try to disassemble the poor thing. Worth mentioning, I tried the jack whilst changing from winter tires last weekend, and it wouldn't hold. At all...

The part about LPG-conversion is quite interesting. Here in Norway, it is mostly the larger/newer big-engine cars (mainly US SUVs/pickups) that are converted to LPG. This is due to the fact that a conversion here is quite expensive (due to strict regulations and rules), even with our steep gas...

W-O-W! Wow! I'm, amazed, fully and completely amazed! You do fantastic work, Luca! And also, recycling and re-using all the material. Love it, you have my utmost respect!

That is really cool. So my jack is now officially a proper piece of history! On a side note, even though it is still quite cold outside, Saturday I manned up and got the jack (partially) cleaned up. Or at least the oil-reservoir cover, in order to remove it for inspection. Then unscrewed all...

I have to agree with Spareparts on this. Also quite a few of these motors have only a feed, and no return line. The dewalt saw no return line and the fan has an air quick coupler... Seems to me they have both? The bigger motors sure are hydraulic. Maybe running an air compressor on a hydraulic...

Hahaha... Someone's trying to give Joe a heart attack. Careful now!

GT-TX, thanks again for the tips! I looked into it, and found the same patent in the google-link tonedef posted a few days back. Also, google supplies the complete patent as a PDF. So now it's been safely stored, waiting for me to print in large scale. Btw, not sure if you noticed, but I made a...

Thomas, Steven, CRTDI, thanks to all of you. This is all useful info. For now it would seem like this is a bit of an odd make, hopefully more information will surface. However, the Joyce-documentation CRTDI supplied looks promising, that jack looks very much like mine. I will have to wait a bit...

Thanks GT-TX. That would look about right!! Even the split int the bottom part of the gear lever is there on the one I have here. Small bit of history: The drill press is labeled with the city of "Kristiania", which is the name our capital had up until 1925 (just checked), so it looks to be...

This is awesome guys! Thanks for all the help! However, as not to clutter this tread to much OT, I set up a new thread just for the jack: The (RV Manufacturing Corp) hydraulic floor jack find If you have any more info, please post it there, so we keep this thread nice and tidy, as pr Thomas'...

This tread is a result of the attention this floor jack caused over in Thomas' shop tread (http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567), but as not to get to much OT there, I made this tread instead. So, to sum up. This was the original post that started it The post was ment to...

Oh, it was that easy? Why didn't I think of that? Well then, thanks!! :D

You know, I have absolutely no idea. I was the biggest in the shop, so I thought it might be the one most worth keeping. Capacity-vise, I would take a wild stab at perheps 3-3,5 metric tons somewhere, for the manufacturer all I have is the text on aluminum cover plate. Hey look, it's made...

Sory for this bit of OT, Thomas. But I thought I'd take the opportunity to thank you (and of course Mr. Johnson) for your efforts in louring all of us into your sphere and way of thinking :) Today, I made a deal with a couple of older gentlemen, who is in the process of sorting through their...

Seconded! Love this tread, Thomas. All the cool stuff (and let's not forget the cars). PS: Dont mind me, I'm just quietly hovering around, waiting for some toolshed pictures.:see:

Reading DynoDaves post, and others before him, I partly feel grateful towards the garage-spirits who led me in the direction of this thread at such a a relatively early point in its development, but also partly great compassion towards all of the poor souls who unknowingly wander into this...

Sorry, Thomas. Your'e screwed! My thoughts would be more along the lines of pure mayhem all across the globe if you DON'T post at least another 280 pages of posts. You know, you can't just get us started, and the simply cool of! We need our daily fixes here! You got us hooked, now you keep us...