Posted by miso@sushi.com on June 2, 2010, 9:19 pm
wrote:
> "m...@sushi.com" wrote:
> > Seriously, would you trust a Harbor Freight solar cell? I don't buy
> > anything from that store that needs to plug into the mains.
> That's your choice. Buy whatever turns your crank. I have several
> power tools I bought there, and they do exactly what I bought them to
> do. Several work better than the Craftsman crap they replaced. They
> should change their name to Crapsman.
> --
> Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
> have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
I was in HF one day when a guy returned a reciprocating saw. It caught
fire. Need I say more!
HF is a great place to buy a tarp, those stepped hole drill bits rock,
and I use their plastic bins to organize components. But plug into the
mains? I don't think so.
Posted by Michael on June 2, 2010, 9:50 pm
> wrote:
> > "m...@sushi.com" wrote:
> > > Seriously, would you trust a Harbor Freight solar cell? I don't buy
> > > anything from that store that needs to plug into the mains.
> > That's your choice. Buy whatever turns your crank. I have several
> > power tools I bought there, and they do exactly what I bought them to
> > do. Several work better than the Craftsman crap they replaced. They
> > should change their name to Crapsman.
> > --
> > Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
> > have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
> I was in HF one day when a guy returned a reciprocating saw. It caught
> fire. Need I say more!
> HF is a great place to buy a tarp, those stepped hole drill bits rock,
> and I use their plastic bins to organize components. But plug into the
> mains? I don't think so.
Good point. For wrenches and such, HF seems good enough for light car
maintenance work. But...
I bought a rechargeable drill from them awhile back, and the NiCd
battery charger doesn't even have a sensor telling when charging is
done. You have to guess when it's done charging.
Dad wanted to buy same drill (on sale for $5); I talked him out of
it.
Michael
Posted by Joel Koltner on June 2, 2010, 10:02 pm
> I bought a rechargeable drill from them awhile back, and the NiCd
> battery charger doesn't even have a sensor telling when charging is
> done. You have to guess when it's done charging.
It's probably just a transformer->rectifier->resistor->battery, set to charge
at a C/10 rate or thereabouts.
So you just wait ~12 hours or so and you're guaranteed it's fully charged --
no guessing necessary. :-)
There was a time, not that long ago, when most battery chargers were this, um,
"featureless!"
> Dad wanted to buy same drill (on sale for $5); I talked him out of
> it.
Sounds like it might be worth $5, actually...
I think Harbor Freight is a good example of (1) you tend to get what you pay
for and (2) advertising leads many people to believe they need a lot more than
they really do. Their "value for the dollar" is actually pretty good --
unlike a well-known brand name where the "image" can sometimes be much
flashier than what you're really getting (counting on many people never
recognizing as much -- see #2), with Harbor Freight it's pretty clear exactly
how rugged (or not) the item you're purchasing is.
If you really want to impress your dad, get him one of these:
(Amazon.com product link shortened)
---Joel
Posted by Michael A. Terrell on June 3, 2010, 1:47 am
Joel Koltner wrote:
I see a lot of people buying tools for their business at Harbor
Freight, and at Northern Tools. They don't complain about the quality,
they complain that people steal their tools.
--
Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
Posted by krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz on June 3, 2010, 3:41 am
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:47:48 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
Right. No one would steal a HF tool. <rdh>
BTW, I have an order with them now for a portable dust collector ($0) and a
wide-crown pneumatic stapler ($0). They didn't have them on sale in the
store in Dothan Saturday.
> > Seriously, would you trust a Harbor Freight solar cell? I don't buy
> > anything from that store that needs to plug into the mains.
> That's your choice. Buy whatever turns your crank. I have several
> power tools I bought there, and they do exactly what I bought them to
> do. Several work better than the Craftsman crap they replaced. They
> should change their name to Crapsman.
> --
> Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
> have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.