Harbor Freight Rant

[stuckmotor]

Replacement ink for an printer anybody?

That's what I was thinking.

 

[yomax4]

Th HF O/A sets are interchangeable with Victor series 100 and 300 in their respective sizes. I have a mixture of both. I am going to sell the set so would be good to keep the branding pure. In time I will probably find a match either at a garage ale or the auction. I have a mixture of Victor and Harris odds and ends I eventually make up whole sets to sell that way. I add HF and other clone tips and etc to flesh out the sets as most used sets I pick up are missing those items. Both brands have been cloned extensively. I am collecting a lot of other brands odds and ends. Victor and Harris bring the best prices. Sell those off cheap from time to time. Amazing what people are looking for.

For those who do not know; Harris is made in Ireland.

Ron

Harris pulled out of Ireland a few years back. They are now in Poland according to a Harris Rep friend. He said the work ethic was better there. lol..

 

[5030]

Harris pulled out of Ireland a few years back. They are now in Poland according to a Harris Rep friend. He said the work ethic was better there. lol..

Poland? Wonder if all the threads are left handed?

When I was a kid, Harris was in Cleveland, used to go by the plant almost every day.

 

[5030]

I remember back when you could buy a nice new car off the showroom floor for under $10K, it was said that to buy all of the parts from the same dealer to assemble the same car yourself would cost around $35K.

Must be nice to be young. I bought my first Corvette Stingray convertible, 427, 390 horse 4 speed, 1966 for 4200 bucks out the door, tax, title and insurance. Bought it at Brooklyn Chevrolet in Brooklyn, Ohio. Cast aluminum knock off wheels, Milano red with tan leather interior. Wish I had it today, it's worth in present day dollars, about a buck and a half.

150 on the freeway anytime. Those were the days.

Wife just bought a new Suburban LTZ loaded, 85 grand.

 

[bigtiller]

Must be nice to be young. I bought my first Corvette Stingray convertible, 427, 390 horse 4 speed, 1966 for 4200 bucks out the door, tax, title and insurance. Bought it at Brooklyn Chevrolet in Brooklyn, Ohio. Cast aluminum knock off wheels, Milano red with tan leather interior. Wish I had it today, it's worth in present day dollars, about a buck and a half.

150 on the freeway anytime. Those were the days.

Wife just bought a new Suburban LTZ loaded, 85 grand.

Me too!

In 1983 I had a chance to buy a '67 Sting Ray for 10 grand. But I was unemployed (80's farm crises) and had to pass it up.

 

[shovelrider]

my wife just buyes new printer from Wallie World. Cheaper than ink cart., plus buy them online, pickup later for 23-29$. Also, i have a ac/dc tig welder from Eastwood @$715 shipped. And bought a EastWood plasma cutter 50 or 60? Cuts up to 7/8", just wired shop w/uf-b awg #6, just for either machine w/ same plug

 

[California]

My solution to expensive printing is obsolete model HP Laserjets. First was a $20 IIp. Toner cartridges from ebay never cost over $15, until that was so out of date that only years-old bad cartridges were available. Then a Laserjet 1300 from 2003, there are now plenty of cheap cartridges for it on Ebay that have been surplused-out when businesses upgraded.The three 1300's we use now are flawless. With the kids now out of high school and college these 1300's should last a long time.

Any Laserjet prints output that looks better than inkjet, and there's no more fussy maintenance of ink cartridges, the thing simply works. Pro tip - put a HP JetDirect card (cheap on Ebay) in a Laserjet then put it on the home network with an Ethernet cable from the router. Either a physical cable, or if you want it in another room, via a wifi Access Point there or a virtual cable over the home wiring driven from a EOP adapter. Last-generation business-quality gear is now dirt cheap.

 

[5030]

So long as my printer (Brother Inkjet) prints bar code labels than can be scanned, I'm all good with it. Cartridges are dirt cheap as well from 123 Inkjets or LD Products.

If Harbor Freight sold printers, I'd buy one....lol

 

[GLyford]

I got a brother laser new, cheap. I used to run an old laserjet until the rollers got too degraded to grab the paper anymore. I like the brother better, it prints double sided.

 

[Oldoak]

Another fan of Brother laser printers here. :thumbsup: