On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:07:20 GMT, "DeepDiver"
wrote:

"Clark Magnuson" wrote in message
...

Walking through an HF store, I would not take anything in the
store if it were all free, including heavy machinery.


That's a rather absurd statement considering that Harbor Freight sells a
number of quality, brand-name tools, including: Ingersoll-Rand, DeWalt,
Milwaukee, Makita, McCulloch, Bosch, Estwing, and even Mitutoyo. Not all can
be found in every store, but I have bought brand-name tools at my local
Harbor Freight.

As for the Chinese tooling, HF's stuff is generally no better or worse than
that of the other tooling retailers. If you're a discriminating buyer, you
can get some very decent tools at a good price.

- Michael

Yes indeed.

After the burglarly that cleaned out $15,000 worth of tools, tooling
and parts from my truck in 2000, I could only afford Stuff from HF.
Ive only replaced a few items that broke or became worn, and I use
them professionally daily. I bought a cheap pair of dykes, and they
became worn in about 3 yrs and the crimper/bolt cutter busted the
hinge pin/rivet. The apparently hardened 10-32 cap screw I was
shortening was a bit much for it.

Gunner


Gunner


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill