Scott
Chicago Electric is HFs house brand. They are usually Chinese or
comparable. I've bought a few small power tools, like the $20 4.5" angle
grinder. It works fine, but I doubt I''d buy anything big in that brand.
Perhaps you will get some better input from others.
Rex Burkheimer
J-CON Coordinator, WM Automotive Whse Fort Worth TX
Texas Region SCCA FC #19 Reynard
rex@txol.net rburkheimer@hotmail.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
To: <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:25 PM
Subject: chicago electric?
>
> wise list,
>
> I have a question regarding the rep of chicago electric. the time of good
> will towards all men is fast approaching, and this means a hefty present
> for me. I've decided this year to request the s/o skip the clothes,
> shoes, self-improvement crap, etc. and instead concentrate her efforts
> into something that'll _really_ make me happy: an official red rider
> range rover air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which
> tells time...
>
> no, wait. it was a <cue angel hymn> mig welder. a real one, not a flux
> jobbie, but one with bottles an' everything. hoping to cut her some slack
> I was looking through the harbor freight catalog and lo, I see many models
> by 'chicago electric'. all 'factory reconditioned', but it'll get used
> only a few times a year (after I'm done with the obligatory play/break-in
> period, which should last several weeks), so I'm not sweating reliability.
>
> so, though I know I'd _really_ like a miller or marquette, are chicago
> electric any good? I ask, 'cause I see in the h.f. catalog that I can buy
> things that I know are decent stuff (or at least decent manufacturers),
> and I see some stuff that I'd be afraid to use, lest it maim me while
> opening the packaging it came in, and I am completely ignorant of chicago
> electric. but I was once ignorant of chicago pneumatic and s-k <cue
> angels again> in the dark days before my enlightenment, and if the great
> list can deliver a revelation before somebody blows major coin, well, my
> praise and thanks would be profuse.
>
> thanky,
>
> scott
> who a) just finished writing a survey religion text, and b) was
> gang-kidnapped to the s/o's church's christmas ceremony/festival. amen.
>
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