Funny story...
I went to pick up my air compressor, after $114 in repairs today. As I'm standing around in the waiting area, I notice a wall with product safety recalls. A picture of my broken floor jack leaps out at me from the wall. Apparently other people were have problems with the universal joint self-destructing and the hydraulic cylinder dying. Fortunately, when mine went I was in the process of jacking up my car and had the wheels on. As it spewed hydraulic fluid it gently lowered the car back down to the ground...
So after getting my air compressor, I ran back home and got my floor jack. As I didn't have a receipt, they referred me to the same jackass who refused to help me before. He said to me: "See, you got it replaced anyways!"
"No help from you" was my response.
Anyway, the numbers on my jack did not exactly match those on the recall. Mine was model 50240. The recall covered model 50242. The difference? The models are identical in all ways except that 50242 has LED lights on in. Anyways, Jackass Mike didn't dare give me $h!t about that.
I picked out a brand new floor jack--an 8 ton all steel model to replace my 1.5 ton steel/aluminum one.
I swear the thing weighs 120 pounds.