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Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now....
Automotive fuses... Today's mail brought me a Safety Recall notice from Harbor Freight telling me to stop using, remove any in use, and return the 120 piece Mini-Blade Automotive Fuse Assortment I'd tacked onto an order I placed with them a few months ago, because getting 120 fuses for $4.99 seemed like a good deal. (TOO good a deal I guess...) They're paying the postage, will refund $4.99 and gave me a "$5.00 Off coupon" good till next February. The recall notice includes this explanation: "Specifically, manufacturing inconsistencies max exiat with the materials, connections or size of the fuse elements which could result in the fuses failing to protect the circuit from exessive current which could cause damage to a vehicle and possibly a fire." What's next folks? The fuse issue isn't as funny as the "Stove Bolt Assortment" I bought from Harbor Freight several years ago and stuck on the shelf. When I finally wanted to use eight matching fasteners rather than the onsies and twosies I can get from my "hell box" I went to that assortment, only to find that all the 10-24 nuts in it had missed the threading operation and had smooth bore holes in them. Just for ****s and grins I wrote a letter to HF and taped a couple of the unthreaded nuts to it. I described the problem and explained that I assumed the threads were on backorder and asked when they expected to ship them to me. I wasn't sure what that would get me, but figured someone might get a laugh out of it and maybe send me another box of fasteners. Unfortunatly, my letter was answered by some ditzy woman with no sense of humor because I all I got was a letter from her saying my complaint exceeded their allowable time limit for returns and there was nothing they could do about it now. Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.98*10^14 fathoms per fortnight. |
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