The idea that 1/4" wide pinch weld that extends 1.25 inches down can support 3000 pounds across a 1.5" top surface area contact point of a jack, without the pinch weld folding is absurd.
Did I explain that well enough?
© 2026 Thomas Paul Murphy
So the top plate or rest of the jack needs to be a bigger plane surface, but with a slot in it.
So how do you accomplish that without having to bulk up the metal too much?
Or perhaps a better question is how do you make a stronger jack stand?
The way that you make a stronger jack stand is to start with a center channel square or rectangular profile piece of metal from the ground plate to where the jack extension comes out of the jack base.
Then you create the jack with the same architecture of "pyramid" welded metal sides or such a structure?
It will also need a wider base because of the wider top. But the center channel piece as mentioned above might help prevent such a wider base from causing the jack to teeter.
For a jack with a larger top rest plate might have a greater chance to teeter.
However the product has to engineered so that the ground plate of the jack can never become dimpled lower in the center. Because if that were to happen you would have the teeter problem.
And do you want to know the gospel truth? No one is going to make one the right way because the added materials would cost too much money, is what they would say.
And perhaps we shouldn't allow any United States Metal to leave our Country! Perhaps we should have never allowed it!
© 2026 Thomas Paul Murphy
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