On Mon, 08 May 2006 20:40:12 -0400, Bradford Chaucer
wrote:

This is not a tool gloat; just the opposite in fact.

Anyhow, Homier brought their rolling road show to my town today. Of course
I was there shortly after opening.

Eagerly, unknowing was I, as I entered the sanctum, and shopping basket in
hand began a cruise of the rows of tools in search of those "Have to Haves"
I've somehow managed to live without. Man o Man, did my crest come rapidly
crashing down. WHAT CRAP!!! IMHO, Their stuff made a Harbor Freight Store
look look like a Snap-On warehouse!!!

I looked at a set of flat spade bits. They where TIN plated (or at least
had a gold colored coating) but looked like they had been sharpened after
stamping, on an old section of concrete sidewalk. Likewise wrenchs looked
like the stuff in the 50cent throw away bin at the local hardware store.

They had some sort of small reciprocating saw (all plastic) with a sticky
jambing switch and a set of nblades that by and large looked gnawed out
rather than stamped or ground.

What was really amazing was the way the locals were scoffing the stuff up -
the line to check out was around the building. I was gone within a half
hour.

Jacksonville NC isn't the heart of tool country but this was sad, and that
was my first and last Homier truckload sale.

Pretty much my experience the first time I went to one. I wasnt into
machining at the time..but knew good tools, mediocre tools and ****
tools.

I made the mistake in thinking they couldnt **** up the
sandpaper...and bought a quantity. I tossed the entire bundle the
first time I tried to use it.

Gunner

Now why doesn't this surprise me one bit?

That's easy.... you're too dull witted to be capable of surprise. What
little synaptic ability you do possess is stretched to the limit with
life support. If you diverted power to the critical thought processors
you'd asphyxiate in a matter of minutes.

George Orwell