[TheForge] Power Hammers

[Jerry Smith]

I know a lot of people have opinions about HF, but Sears Craftsman tools aren't 
that much better. I have my father set of Craftsman socket wrenches from the 
1930s, they have lasted and lasted. The new set I got about 10 years ago lasted 
about 4 months.  

When the HF opened up near me, the store would give me replacements off the 
rack, Sears would give people replacement from the backroom that are rebuilt 
tools. 


I wore out a couple of files that were Sears Craftsman brand. I took them back 
to Sears, the department manager said they only sell those particular files in 
sets. I said that they were Craftsman, guaranteed for life. He wouldn't bundge 
on replacing them, so I asked for the store manager, suddenly I was given the 
set of files as my replacement. I remember when Sears was a no hassle place that 
you could get a good value for your money. Now it seems to be junk.

Jerry




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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Power Hammers



On 12/20/2010 3:14 PM, Mike Linn wrote:
> I guess I've been lucky. I've had a HF drill press for going on 15 years now 
>and never had a problem. The AFC has 2, one I bought for them 8 or 9 yrs ago. 
>While these don't get used everyday, when they are used during workshops and 
>hammer-ins, they are really abused. Both are working great.
That's good.
HF is very much a mixed bag. Some of the tools i got from them died 
within a week, others i got from them 25 years ago are still going strong.
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> On Dec 20, 2010, at 9:28 AM, "Bob Ehrenberger"<eforge at centurytel.net>  wrote:
>
>> Charles,
>> You are so right about Harbor Freight. My son got a drill press from them,
>> and when he had a problem he was on his own. Like you said a life-time
>> warranty on a product they no longer carry isn't worth very much. So they
>> aren't very reliable for parts support. They do the import/customs
>> paperwork.
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
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>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 10:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Power Hammers
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>>
>> Harbor Freight tends to add and drop things from their catalog in a
>> pretty random way.  And since everything is house branded it makes it
>> hard to get parts, though most of the parts are interchangeable with
>> other house brand Chinese goods.    I have had a number of Harbor
>> Freight items on a long term wish list -- Bandsaw blade welder,
>> hydraulic  gear puller, chipping hammer, and heavy duty pin welder and
>> numerous machine tools including all of the accessories for the little
>> 7x10 minilathe, all of which have been dropped from the catalog.  I am
>> a little leary of buying anything that I can't replace cheaply or
>> manufacture the parts for easily.  I have a lifetime warranty metal
>> shear from them that the blade failed on and is no longer offered by them.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
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