[TheForge] H.F. BAND SAW

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I bought a $135 Chinese band saw ( Rong Foo brand...really!) and it must 
have 300,000 miles on it by now....it has minced a lot of metal.
Oh sure, It has never been quite true, despite all my fiddling and I've 
replaced the guide bearings and motor etc.....but it has been a hell of 
a lot of tool for the buck!
I've come to feel that HF is pretty ugly....would only buy name brand, 
familiar model tools from them...so much of their stuff has broken on 
the second use.
Chinese tools are getting better fast...they are about to take over our 
former role in the industrialized world and it's hard not to feel mighty 
queasy about it....Pete F

Kenny O. wrote:
> I have been allotted some cash out of my last job for a cheepy band saw.
> griz, H.F, Enco , etc... Less than two hundred. I hear lots of good 
> things about the
> H.F with modifications of course.
> 
> 
> NEW TOPIC:
> I finally received some pictures of a bed frame I made last year. Where 
> might I post
> them, are we still using the link below?
> 
> Thank you All
> Kenny O
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