- 1. no more (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:41:06 -0500
- David, I just bent 3/8 steel on my chinese brake trying to bend 1/8 steel. I have 3 sets of chinese airhorns with bum compressors. 2 from wang freight, 1 was a gift from chink boys. I have cases of n
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00667.html (7,955 bytes)
- 2. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:24:42 -0800
- You think you can bend 1/8" on an American sheet metal brake? When I was 10, I thought so too. Dad almost killed me. BZ
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00676.html (6,833 bytes)
- 3. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:09:16 -0500
- I thought so since the brake says it will bend up to 3/16 mild steel. the 1/8" was mild but US made, nowhere in the instructions did it say to bend ONLY CHINESE STEEL. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00687.html (7,065 bytes)
- 4. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:38:19 -0800
- Your problem, Frank, is that to refuse to learn Chinese to understand the correct translations. When you read "3/16 mild steel", you must remember that the proper translation for the Chinese "mild s
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00695.html (7,574 bytes)
- 5. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:40:39 -0600
- Don't blame it all on the Chinese. They make the stuff to someone's specs. That someone imports it and sells it. I see USA made Amflo stuff at HF. I bought a 3 pack of Starrett band saw blades at HF
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00696.html (7,196 bytes)
- 6. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Gilroy" <wmgilroy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:13:51 -0800
- You would like it out here. The is a really large lumber yard and mill works in my town. It is about a 1/4 mile up the street from a lumber yard that sells only cedar. Both places have good products
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00707.html (9,233 bytes)
- 7. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:54:36 -0500
- I bought a homier angle grinder just to save time flipping from cut off to grind discs, it was cheap and I knew what I was in for. I thought it would last a little longer than 5 minutes. Used it once
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00726.html (7,537 bytes)
- 8. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:39:32 -0800
- I use cut off discs in one of those peach colored grinders from HF. It's seen frequent hard use for about eight years. The side handle broke off a few years ago, but it still works great. My neighbor
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00742.html (7,364 bytes)
- 9. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:52:22 EST
- I bought sander for some home DIY it was really cheap but had a year's guarantee. It broke on the second and last time I needed to use it, when it was 363 days old. I took it back to the shop where t
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00765.html (7,276 bytes)
- 10. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:02:04 EST
- You can get quality most of the time, but you have to look really hard. I don't think you can get really good electric hand tools. -g Heck no...I bought a Dewalt a few years ago and wore it out build
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00806.html (7,866 bytes)
- 11. Re: no more (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:52:13 -0800
- That's called GOTCHA!!!! But that is spot on about electric hand tools. Of course some of the time they last longer for folks like you and me. But for people like Frank who use them daily, and whose
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00809.html (7,792 bytes)
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