Art,
I couldn't agree more.
I'm not talking about inexpensive tools here. Like everyone else
(except maybe the "head nerd at Mic**So*t) I look for the best buy.
What I was getting at was that $4.95 socket set at the grocery store
automotive section is a total waste of time.
Incidently, the quote was from a sign I saw at a tool shop that would
sell you a good inexpensive tool, or a cheap tool. But only if you
insisted. I dealt with them for years til the owner retired.
I've never purchased from Harbor Freight, but I've heard a lot of good
reports on their stuff, so when I finish the Shop (whenever that is) I'll
probably give them a try.
Oh, I checked some of my Craftsman and Snap-on hand tools and they all
say "made in USA"
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:50:50 -0500 (EST) Art Pfenninger
<ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU> writes:
> There are cheap tools and there are inexpensive tools. Because
>a
>tool is made in China doesn't make it cheap. I have bought cheap tools
>in
>the past and thrown them out. So far I have not been disappointed with
>one
>single tool from Harbor Freight. I have not bought any wrenches from
>them
>but am thinking about the stubby wrenches the sell for $10 a set.
>Before I
>ever heard of the company I borrowed some tools fropm a neighbor of
>mine.
>He is a PhD at the University of Buffalo. I mention this because he
>tested
>the hardness of metal on the university equipment and gave me the
>numbers
>in rockwell hardness. The numbers didn't mean anything to me, but he
>said
>they were good. Who knows. What I do know Is that I have a dial
>indicator
>from them that cost $10 bucks. I compared the reading with a Starrit
>brand
>gauge and they were identical. I used my neighbors HF impact wrench
>when
>my Ingersol Rand failed me and his worked. I have used his HVLP spray
>gun
>and couldn't ask for a better gun. All my air tools are from there as
>is
>my $50 hydraulic floor jack. All these were tax free and free
>shipping.
>Next time you are in Sears look where there stuff is made. Check out
>where Delta tools are made. Again inexpensive does not mean cheap. If
>your'e a professional then these tools aren't for you, but for the
>home
>mechanic they can't be beat for the price.
>...Art
>
>
>On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Rick Morrison wrote:
>
>> "the most expensive tool you can buy, is the cheapest"
>> Rick Morrison
>> 72 MGBGT
>> 74 Midget
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:21:15 -0400 JOHN HARDY
><hardwire@compuserve.com>
>> writes:
>> >dear all,
>> >
>> > since I started faffing about with cars I have been
>> >sucker=
>> >ed
>> >into buying tools from time to time which are about as much use as
>a
>> >chocolate teapot. Upon realising that the said tool will not
>perform
>> >the
>> >task as described nor any other task I might as well shove up my
>a**e.
>> >Hence my title.
>> >
>> > I have many happy memories of various instruments fraudulently
>> >describe=
>> >d
>> >as a "breakthrough" or a "pricebuster" or generally the best thing
>> >since
>> >sliced bread. Chief amonst these are Aircraft Snips which I
>purchased.
>> >After using them twice they dissassembled themselves into their
>> >constitue=
>> >nt
>> >parts with the bastard size nut rolling under the bench to
>oblivion.
>> >Th=
>> >en
>> >the was the air die grinder that refused to operate after one
>attempt
>> >at
>> >operation. I took it apart when I came across it lying in a corner
>> >where
>> >I'd thrown it and it wasn't even machined inside. In general now I
>> >never
>> >ever buy anything that was apparently made east of Germany. (the
>steel
>> >employed in these climes is an alloy of pig iron, coal and various
>> >grades=
>> >
>> >of dung. animal and human) =
>> >
>> >
>> > I still have a drawer full of clamps that don't, drills that
>didn't
>> >and
>> >squares that aren't. =
>> >
>> >
>> > Anyone else been suckered???
>> >
>> > Yours, as always, JH
>> >
>> > =
>> >
>> >
>>
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