[TheForge] Re: A real Deal at HF...

[Rick]

Hey Mike -

I had a princess auto horizontal/vertical band saw.  I spent only about 125 
on it brand new, so I knew what I was getting.  It lasted over 8 years and I 
just recently gave it to a friend.  Served me good for what I paid for it. 
Only small problems thru the years and I was able to fix them as they came 
up.

|8^)>
Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
  Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
   In the middle of Northern Illinois

    http://www.smokyforge.com
     rick at smokyforge.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:07 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: A real Deal at HF...


>
> Ries> Course, I am such a heretic, I have never been in a Walmart, either.
>
> What? Not even *once*?  :-) Well, I went in once, right after they
> opened here.  I felt like I had wandered onto the Bladerunner set and
> was trapped there.
>
> Ries> Its not that I am xenophobic, or hate all imports- I just hate
> Ries> junk.
>
> More than junk, I hate shopping in an atmosphere where the the default
> assumption is that you're a moron and a sucker who will never, ever know
> that their Fine Products are junk.
>
> We don't have HF but we have Princess Auto.  They don't claim that
> their products are great quality (some are and some aren't) but they
> guarantee everything.  I've bought three items from the over $200.
> All three had problems.  Two were promptly replaced with more
> expensive models. In the other case, (shipping dings and dents in a
> roller cabinet) no replacement without defects could be found on site
> so they offered me a 30% rebate as an alternative to a long wait while
> one was shipped from Saskatchewan.
>
> My Taiwanese drill press and 4" bandsaw have been chugging along for
> 25 years with only one (fixable) breakdown in the drill press.
> Otherwise, a couple of cheapo air tools are my only Chinese imports.
>
> Anvil horn points left and true north.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>                                                           /V\
> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^