DarkBlack
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I think it's pretty common here to lump "chinese quality" into the harbor freight merchandise. Hate to tell ya boys but your fords, chevys, etc are loaded with chinese parts. Prejudice is a hard thing to break
DarkBlack said:I think it's pretty common here to lump "chinese quality" into the harbor freight merchandise. Hate to tell ya boys but your fords, chevys, etc are loaded with chinese parts. Prejudice is a hard thing to break
If I am "prejudiced" it is against the Chinese communist system and the way they conduct business and treat their people. Everyone should be.
i love garage sales. I buy every 1$ incomplete socket set i find. I used to be willingto pay a lil more.. but now that hf will sell you a complete 3/8 drive sae and metric socket set with 3" ext and 1/4" adapter and a cheap lil nut driver for 2.99 to 3.99 .. well.. they are cornering the market on yard sales even!
DarkBlack said:I remember when everyone saw Japanese mercahndise as junk...
No not pawn shops. Thrift stores, second hand places. Or garage sales like has been mentioned. Also craigslist will have cheap tools sometimes. I recently made two very nice tool sets out of a crate of tools sold to me for $20 at the end of a garage sale. I gave them away as gifts and I still had many tools left over. The crate was still there because it was so heavy and it had other stuff setting on it so no one saw it. It was mostly Husky stuff and it was fine for who I gave the tools to. They had to be out of the house in a hurry so I took it off of their hands. I backed my truck up and transferred all the larger stuff into the truck bed until I could lift the crate. I always keep cheaper tools in the barn, on the tractors, etc. I would rather loose one from a garage sale or thrift store than out of my main set. And I also like to put money in someone's pocket locally by buying used stuff than pay for HF tools being shipped in from china. Way too much stuff gets junked when all it needs is a little wrenching.
If you like to spend your day going from garage sale to garage sale that's fine. It's not for me. If I see something in a second hand store that's fine but if I walk into a HF store I know they are going to have a set of cheap wrenches. I have too many project I want to do so I'm not about to spend hours dealing with Craig's list trying to meet up with someone burning up gas driving around to get a set of wrenches.
OTOH I can spend a couple bucks and have a set of wrenches that even if I only use one wrench once I'm still ahead of the game. If I find myself in a bind and I need to modify one I'm not going to cringe thinking about cutting up a 40 year old Craftsman US made wrench. Also when I need it they will be here, no running around.