Customer Reviews
Outstanding -- Both Product and Service 
2007-02-16
I purchased the T-JAK Drywall and Cabinet tool, first, had great success with it, and then purchased the T-JAK Pro-Pack. The Pro-Pack includes all the shorter sections of pipe and fittings you will need, eventually, and they are stored and displayed in a case that provides easy access and transport.
This is a top-quality product that has infinite applications.
It's easy for "twenty-twenty-hindisighters" to suggest we could've assembled the same components with a trip to the local hardware or Home Depot, but that's a "sour-grapes" crock of hooey. The designer spent a lot of time and effort developing this product, and it all revolves around a brilliant, specially-engineered winged nut which has an eccentric hole that allows it to slide up or down a threaded shaft for quick adjustment. This is friggin' brilliant on-paper, and a huge time-saving joy to use on the job-site.
The only thing I feel bad about, is that I can't shake the inventor's hand and buy him a beer.
If you hang drywall by yourself, I guess the drywall jack would be a big help, but don't imagine that this is all you're going to use this versatile tool for. You'll find yourself breaking it out for just about everything.
My advice is to go ahead and bite the bullet -- if you're working in the trades -- and just get the Pro-Pack; it's been heavily discounted by the manufacturer, and the additional flexibility it offers is fantastic.
When my Pro-Pack first arrived, it's travel/storage case had been heavily damaged in shipment. I was very disappointed, because the rolling case (with interior, fitted, foam storage for parts) is a very valuable and necessary organization tool, itself. I contacted the manufacturer, directly, via email and they shipped out a replacement tool case immediately. No charge.
All T-Jak tools are powder-coated with bright orange paint, and the individual pipe sections are very nicely finished. There are no sharp burrs, and the pieces assemble and disassemble quickly, forming an almost unlimited array of different application possibilities. As a remodeler, I can tell you that there are too many time when your help doesn't show up, and you've got to get something done, by yourself -- time when the T-Jak system will save your bacon.
Work alone? Get this tool! 2006-06-05
I work alone and put up a lot of cabinets. I use ledger boards for the wall cabinets, but for years have balanced them up on that little board, holding the cabinet with one hand and driving a screw with the other.
Sometimes there's that heavy microwave that installs over a range and vents to the outside. Those are a bear, and I dread a job with one, but you have to take the good with the bad.
When I saw the ad for this tool, I gambled and ordered the one with the extension for ceiling sheetrock, just in case.
When it came in, I was a bit skeptical. It was heavy steel, and the threads and collar worked fine, but I have to see it to believe it. The very first cabinet I ran up the wall made a believer in me. You can balance a cabinet with the T-Jak so that both hands are free.
It made short work of that installation. And yep, sure enough, there was that heavy microwave. I sat it on that T-Jak and ran it right up to where the back lip slipped in the groove, and screwed it from inside the above cabinet with no strain at all.
This T-Jak stays in the truck now. I've used it for all sorts of things that used to make my back and arms ache the next day. This is the best innovation I've come across in 20 years!
t-jak reveiw 
2005-10-14
the discription of the item indicated it was more convient to use, it is not hard to use just inconvienent.
Good tool 2005-02-12
I've used this for putting in cabinets and it almost makes a one man job. I still need an assist lifting large cabinets onto the jacks. I have used these for quite a few other things as well--adding an extension to a table saw, assembling a lathe, etc. I would not use it for installing drywall. It's just too awkward. I would give it 4 stars if it weren't so spendy. It's just pipe, threaded rod and some plastic parts.
Precise with easy set up. 2004-05-17
I used the T-Jak recently on a remodeling project. It is a very good, durable tool to have on location. Whenever ceiling joists were being adjusted or headers and beams were being replaced, supporting the item using the T-Jak was easier and more professional than by bracing using 2x4's.
Great 2008-06-09
Great product easy to use and very helpful. Glad I bought this to help with my remodeling.
It works! 
2008-05-20
It did not look like much when it arrived. I was surprised it actually works. I installed new kitchen cabinets with it.
Since almost all kitchen cabinets are modular there not that much weight involved. The trick is the weird adjusting nut. The nut allows major coarse or fine adjustments to be made quickly. I mounted the base to a 16"X16" piece of plywood so the T-Jack it would stand by itself on the floor. One person is able to set a cabinet on top. Yes you can make your own but it's not worth it (5/8" all thread, EMT electrical conduit, and 1/2 " pipe brackets, 3/4 plywood).
I almost purchased the $600 cabinet lift but found it is over kill for the average job.
Good tool over priced 2008-03-14
Tool arrived in damaged box. Poorly packed. Simple design, I expected more for the price. So I altered mine with additional sections of standard 1/2" rigid iron pipe with another section of standard all thread rod and coupling nut. Should be cheaper for what you get. Works well enough, I guess we are making the distributor a lot of profit.
Thumbs up! 2008-01-07
I recently had to remove an upper cabinet, take three inches of the height of it, and get it back in place without disturbing the molding at the top. Working solo, I secured the cabinet to the top of the T-Jak and cranked it up into place. Also, I received excellent customer service from T-Jak. Mine shipped without the threaded rod. I sent an e-mail and had the part in hand in two days.
Try a little innovtation 2007-04-08
I bought this thing initially to use in cabinet installations. After the first I became an expert with it. I've also used it for installing crown, the big microwaves over the range, and sheet rock on ceilings. I don't install a lot of sheet rock, but a full sheet is more than one man wants to deal with. So I fastened 1x4's on top of the plate of the T-Jak. It gave me a lot more stability and I was able to get the job done by myself.
Out on sites where there are more than one unit being remodeled, I've had guys come over and offer me money to borrow it to use it to install cabinets.I may go a week without touching it and then use it every day for a week. I don't dread those microwaves anymore!
