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

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

My general experience with HF is that on the average i've paid 
about as much as i would have for a decent quality tool, in the 
long run. Some of them are OK ( i've done well with their cheapie 
air hammers for example). Many other HF tools didn't last through 
a single job. There's a pile of dead ones in the corner shelf.
The loss is in your time coping with the failures. It's a gamble, 
and i suspect the house always wins, like usual.
I'd much rather buy quality old overweight tools, once.
When they fail they are often fixable and still worth fixing.
What's the value of frustration?....pete f

Jerry Smith wrote:
> I have bought things from Princess Auto when I am in
> Canada. Never had any problems with their stuff. Now I
> wish I had bought a key cutting machine from them,
> they have all sort of stuff.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> --- Rick <rick at smokyforge.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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/                
>>        ^^-^^
>>
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