Vintage Lift

Posted by 141drew Feb 21, 2014 at 3:01 PM and filed under News & Editorial

A friend of mine sent over an email chock full of vintage jack and lift ads. I’ve always wanted one of these old floor jacks, but the right one just hasn’t found me yet. Someday… Until then, these old ads will keep me dreaming.

Check em out:

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Bears Fan

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Feb 21, 2014

That Ausco is ****!!! I would like to pick one of those up...

BB767

Well-known member

Feb 21, 2014

Ryan consider a nice vintage...

...Walker floor jack from the 1930's.

Nothing beats a vintage floor jack in an old shop...

...for working on old cars unless...

...it's using a vintage lift. This is a Rotary Lift made in 1928.

Thomas from the Restored 1930's Auto Shop

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567

Last edited: Feb 21, 2014

marty_p

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Feb 21, 2014

Thanks for continuing to share your vintage finds, Ryan.

I'm partial to the Blackhawk, but then again, I'd love to have any or all of the above! :thumbup:

Russ G

Active member

Feb 21, 2014

I love old ads. I spend hours looking at old magazines like Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics, etc. I guess most guys know about it by now , but if not, check out the Popular Science archive explorer. It lets you look at every page of almost every issue of Popular Science magazine right from the very first issue right up until part way through 2009. Lots of good reading.

uniballer

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Feb 21, 2014

I love these, need an ad for my S-18 blackhawk jack. The S-4 is much nicer looking tho.

Rflagel222

Active member

Feb 21, 2014

Ha! Love the Ausco jack!!!! Love all oldish shop equipment!!!!

My Father in law is very very high up in the chain at Ausco here in Michigan.
I have two old school Ausco bumper jacks , use them everyday when working on the dirt car

one in the front, one in the back, up she goes...
Not quite as nice as a shop lift but works nicely!

Not to thread jack!

Amiou

Active member

Feb 22, 2014

Look this one : it's for sale on a french web site
http://www.leboncoin.fr/collection/583769775.htm?ca=22_s

Jay F

Member

Feb 22, 2014

Several years ago a friend gave me a Roll A Car jack made in Racine WI, which is pictured in one of the ads. It worked well so I cleaned it up and used it a few times. It works by ratcheting, is very powerful and I thought is was real neat. However, it's very heavy, very long overall so takes up lots of space and, most importantly as the lifting arm is shorter than those on modern jacks it couldn't lift my '49 Cadillac very high. After a while I felt the negatives outweighed the positives, so I passed it on to another friend with a larger garage.

9C1

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Feb 22, 2014

BB767 said:
Nothing beats a vintage floor jack in an old shop...

...for working on old cars unless...

...it's using a vintage lift. This is a Rotary Lift made in 1928.

Thomas from the Restored 1930's Auto Shop

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567

Thomas,
Stick to the lift for the Corvette, or use the Walker under the control arm(s). That old Walker used as shown will leave dents in the front cross member of your Corvette that are very hard to remove. Don't ask how I know.
Terry

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BB767

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Feb 23, 2014

9C1 said:
Thomas,
Stick to the lift for the Corvette, or use the Walker under the control arm(s). That old Walker used as shown will leave dents in the front cross member of your Corvette that are very hard to remove. Don't ask how I know.
Terry

Many thanks Terry for the heads up. :thumbup:

You can't see it in the picture but there's a small thin piece of plywood spanning the cross member to distribute the weight on the jack saddle and prevent just such a problem, but I wasn't all that happy doing it that way.
Using the jack on the control arms sounds like a much more stable approach or as you said, just use the Rotary Lift.
Fortunately the '66 fits just fine on the old lift.
Now using that lift with the low ground clearance on your beautiful Z06 however........well not so much.

BTW, I haven't forgotten the seat article for NCRS, honest!

Thomas

Mark in Indiana

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Feb 23, 2014

I'm seeing some great looking jacks here. Here are some pictures of Hein-Werner that I sold last summer.

Chuck McB

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Feb 23, 2014

Ryan said:
A friend of mine sent over an email chock full of vintage jack and lift ads. I've always wanted one of these old floor jacks, but the right one just hasn't found me yet. S...
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That is one cool jack ! Reminds me of okra

BradTx

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Feb 24, 2014

I've been looking for a vintage Blackhawk jack for a while now.

BB767

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Feb 25, 2014

BradTx said:
I've been looking for a vintage Blackhawk jack for a while now.

I've been helping a buddy with his Chevy II restoration and...

...we've been using his dad's vintage Blackhawk S-4.

It's all complete and both physically and operationally in great condition, just visually challenged and a little dirty. I've been trying to convince him it's really too large for his needs and my shop would be a much more appropriate home for it. Convincing him might take some time............ :dunno:

Thomas

Tman

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Feb 27, 2014

I too have been looking for one!

fireman164

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Mar 12, 2014

my roll a car much like the one in the ad

sekiuman

New member

Jul 12, 2014

Re: Vintage Lift walker 740 2 1/2 ton (1922ish)

aquired a vintage walker roll a car jack model 740 2 1/2 ton mechanical model. still works. wanted to restore it. was trying to find the original color blue used on this floor jack. also where i could find a breakdown manual on it. thankyou wayne (washington state)

fireman164

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Jul 14, 2014

Hello, not sure what that color blue is , I took it to the powder coaters and they had several different shades on their color board , and I just picked the one I thought looked closest to the small spots of blue that were left on the jack from the past, the bearings are hardened roll pins you can get those about anywhere , they were longer that the original bearings so I cut each to size ( time consuming) but they will last past my lifetime . Another thing is the roll pins will be a little fatter than the original bearings , but they still work perfect . Hope this helps

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