HARBOR FREIGHT QUALITY

Dan wrote:
Kloudy via AviationKB.com wrote:
wrote:
Someone wrote: 'YOUR OUT OF YOUR F**KING MIND' ...with regard to
suggesting people buy ANYTHING from Harbor Freight.

I disagree.
By the time you're ready to put
the tool to work you know it will do a good job.

-R.S.Hoover

My daughter is an illustrator and designer. She got all the stuff to
complete a "Futuristic(Philip K Dick-esque)-heavy-
industrial-full-toolbelt-steel-toe-boot-leathersuspender-goggle-wearing-
wrench-wielding (big-BIG wrench) crusader-superchick" costume for a
client
that cost her a fraction of what it would have cost even at Wal-Mart.

And I got a roll of duct tape real cheap.



A few years ago I proved engineers are not known for their sense of
humour. I made my father, a retired engineer, an electric tack hammer. I
drilled a hole in the bottom of the handle, cut the end off a new
extension cord and epoxied the end into the handle. My father actually
plugged it in to see if the magnetic end of the head was affected. He
had some friends, several of whom had been engineers, over a few days
later and they couldn't figure it out either. My father is a guardian ad
litem and was goin to take the hammer to the courthouse to get x-rayed
to see if I had been flimflammed. Good thing I called before he did. To
this day he doesn't understand the joke behind electric hammers.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Was you father a retired sanitation engineer. :-)

Dan wrote:

A few years ago I proved engineers are not known for their sense of
humour. I made my father, a retired engineer, an electric tack hammer. I
drilled a hole in the bottom of the handle, cut the end off a new
extension cord and epoxied the end into the handle. My father actually
plugged it in to see if the magnetic end of the head was affected. He
had some friends, several of whom had been engineers, over a few days
later and they couldn't figure it out either. My father is a guardian ad
litem and was goin to take the hammer to the courthouse to get x-rayed
to see if I had been flimflammed. Good thing I called before he did. To
this day he doesn't understand the joke behind electric hammers.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

What? I don't get it!

I've generally been satisfied with the items purchased from HF - and
don't recall returning anything. My angle grinder is probably almost
10 years old - and has held up well. Not bad for twenty bucks! I would
only buy from a store - and have been fortunate to have one reasonably
close since they first opened up (and now have one almost on my way
home from work). I now also have a Northern Tool in town - and my
subjective opinion is that their stuff is a bit higher quality than
HF. No doubt competition benefits the consumer.

Not long ago my trusty 12 Volt compressor blew out its intake check
valve (to parts unknown) while filling an airplane tire. Probably
could have been put back together - but the missing part could not be
found - and the company is out of business. I bought HFs price leader
as a replacement - and have been pleased with it's overall quality and
performance. The only thing I didn't like was the coil-spring style
hose, as I am accustomed to using a long neck angled chuck on the end
of a rubber hose (need it to deal with my plane's user-unfriendly
wheel pants). Alas the compressor comes with a snap lock air connector
that is apparently unique in the world. HF couldn't supply one for my
hose - and neither can anyone else. As others have noted, HFs customer
service is of little help. I did devise a work around that joins the
coiled hose and mine - but don't like it (though it does work).

Dave