mac davis said:

I have a completely different view of HF.. I love it...
IMHO, you get what you pay for, and a lot of the stuff I buy doesn't
need to be 1st class...
Though I agree that I wouldn't buy lathe chisels, precision tools, or
things like that there, I'm often online ordering their sanding disks
and belts, bench clamps, etc.....
If you are looking for supplies of seldom used stuff, and expect to
get what you pay for (there ARE no free lunches *g*) it's a great
place to shop and they ship free if you spend $50... and it's hard NOT
to spend $50 there.. YMMV (and probably will)

I am a little leery of their motorized things that spin at high RPM.
I did see a set of electric "haircutting" shears that I almost bought
to shave the dog with... I was afraid they would just entangle the
hair and stall, leaving us with a dog with a huge bald spot from where
we had to cut the Chinese POS from her coat... ;-)

What bothers me the most about the place is that almost everything is
"imported". As it getting to be in Wal-Mart, Target, and insert
vendor's name here. WTF is happening to our economy?

I have a box of marbles. I trade some to your for your slingshot.
You trade some to me for fixing your bicycle. Millions of other
people do this same thing - everybody's happy, and the marbles stay
here, being swapped around for various things.

Enter country X. I give X some marbles for a bike tire. Country X
hoards the marbles and doesn't ever trade them back. Millions of
other people do the same and you lose your job at the bike tire plant.
Eventually we have no more marbles to trade with. Making more marbles
simply devalues the value of our remaining marbles. They take our
marbles and buy land and invest in banking ventures - and eventually
have a controlling interest in every facet of our lives - including
the production of ALL of our goods. We are losing control of out own
destinies.

Anyway... Enough OT ramblings... ;-)


Greg G.