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| daywane:
I have no problems with chicago brand names at Harbor Freight brad nail gun 14 volt drill (love it) best place to buy nails for my nail gun ( Dewalt not Harbor Freight ) belts for sander drill bits chain saw chain grinder (love it) |
| Dermbrian:
--- Quote from: knave on October 02, 2009, 06:49:44 pm ---Actually I'm pretty happy with most things I pick up at HF...Just don't get things with a motor. :D --- End quote --- Especially little electric high speed motors. Their 'bargain' dremel-type tool with accessories is scary. But when the physical therapist recommend I buy a mini-sledge to work my wrist after a motorcycle accident, guess where I went. ;) |
| Fordman:
I'm going to get on the :soapbox: here for a minute. Why I dont go to Harbor Freight. CHINA! CHINA! CHINA! All their junk is cheap knock off's of tools from Sears, Matco, Stanley and many others. I know we all like to look out for our own wallets, but when we keep buying the cheap chinese junk over and over again, they will keep making it. If you paid a little extra for the afformentioned brands, chances are, you wont have to re-buy it in a short time span. Now dont get me wrong, the other brands do have their issues, but not at the rate of HF's! Most people buy the HF stuff for one time use and I understand that, but I cant tell you the number of people that have bought a large power tool from HF and they had to return it not once but twice or better times. Read their return policy, they do give you three tries on something then give you your money back. The chinese dont give a rats ass about patents or integrity of ther products. They just keep flooding the docks with cheap goods and we keep buying them. HF is about as bad as Wal-Mart! At work, our transmissions are 98% US made parts with a 1.5% Mexico and .5 Chinese. If the vendor uses chinese parts, they automatically get sorted not once, twice or three times, they get sorted four times. Then usually a 60-63% reject rate on the parts. The vendor just ships more parts in, again with the sorting. Kinda funny that something similar is now biting Ford in the ass right now, they was making alot of plastic parts in Mexico, but at a 97% scrap rate, they then shipped all the machines and work to Sandusky, Ohio where they have a less than 1% scrap rate. They tried like hell to skate around paying the labor and benefits and it has cost them 10 fold what it would have cost them from the begining! ok, i'm off the :soapbox:! Fordman |
| abzman2000:
I generally don't like harbor freight, and while I love sears and always buy craftsman hand tools... I am currently holding a tool in my hand that says "craftsman" on one side, and "china" on the other. This does not negate the lifetime warranty offered by sears on craftsman hand tools, but when I realised this it kinda bothered me. |
| Level42:
Show me a home-user electrical tool of a major brand that is not made in China these days.... |
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