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Old 11-29-2008, 12:24 PM   #78 (permalink)
patrick_g
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Default Re: HF tools that suck

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Originally Posted by Travelover View Post
This is the fun part of owning HF stuff. I like to think of their stuff as prototypes, as opposed to a truly finished product. A few tweaks and a little work and you've got something that works.
Well, sometimes... Sometimes it is just not good stuff and no reasonable and cost effective approach is available to make it right.

I bought the larger of the two battery testers they sell. It is the 500 amp one. I thought it was DOA right out of the box (instructions were useless) but when I opened it up and figured out how it worked I knew how to use it and it is a darned good battery tester. With diesel trucks with a pair of 100 AH batts in parallel you need a really good HD load tester to get it right.

I will either drill the concentric tubes of the roller stands and use pins or split the enclosing tube and use a hose clamp to secure the moving tube. Either will work.

Pat
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