"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
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"Joe" wrote in message
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"notbob" wrote in message
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On 2009-09-18, Joe wrote:

Fair enough. Veneering and holding small workpieces in place for
production
routing.

Pshaw! Then you are wasting your money. You'd be better off using an
old
vacuum cleaner thru vacuum cleaner hose.

nb

I might as well. Ran it for 10 seconds and it started rattling and
smoking. first and last tool I ever buy from HF.




I don't want to sing the praises of HF, and there are indeed things in
their store that I won't buy, but a great deal of what they sell is
perfectly acceptable stuff. What would you have said if a brand name item
from a major retailer failed like that in short order? It happens every
day.

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-Mike-


And, to bolster your point, per another poster, the pump was actually
behaving the way it was supposed to. It was my fault for not knowing the
specifics of how that pump operates. Just frustration in the moment that
was talking there.

Live and learn.

jc

p.s. Any, yes, I did see some perfectly acceptable stuff in there as well,
just not the threaded plastic knobs for jigs and hold-downs that I was
looking for. Not their fault they don't carry them ;-)