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Old 06-17-2008, 06:01 PM   #281 (permalink)
Dargo
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Default Re: Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

No problems Pat, I'm just stating my opinion on HF stuff. And, actually, I came far closer to being seriously injured when the HF spring compressor broke with a compressed spring in my lap and with the exploding cut-off saw wheels. Thus, from experience, I will buy nothing from HF that has more than a fair chance of creating serious bodily injury. A jack or jack stand certainly falls into that category. My angle is this; do I know for sure what metals are used in HF's $15 set of jack stands, no. However, I am not willing to bet my life that they are structurally sound. In other words, my family won't be the family suing HF for selling junk that killed me. Somebody else can have that honor. I won't touch anything like that from HF with a ten foot pole. They have proven to me more than once that their materials are substandard.
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