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Re: tools, what priority?

To: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: tools, what priority?
From: Ross MacPherson <arm@bc.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 06:49:20 -0800 (PST)
At 07:08 AM 12/9/98 -0500, you wrote:

>> 
>       Sorry Ross but I have to disagree some what. If I see a tool that 
>I know will help and the price is cheap enough I buy it. The stubby
>wrenchs are a good example. $10 dollars from HF and the first time they
>saved me a half hours work I considered them paid for. I'm getting the
>$4.99 tail pipe expander because last month I wasted an hour trying to
>straighten out the clamp ridge on a muffler using everything I could find 
>including a hardwood chair leg turned down to the right diameter on my
>lathe. I needed a small tail pipe expander but could not find one locally 
>that would fit. Next time I will have it and if there isn't a next time
>then I spent $4.99 for nothing. As far as $49 electric tools  almost
>any hand tool (drill, sander, saw etc) can be had for that amount at
>Sears  and will last many many years. The 19.99 grinder from Harbor
>Freight was one of those tools that were cheap enough to try and I
>couldn't believe how good it was once I got it. I like it so much that I
>plan on getting another if this one ever gives out. And for $49.99 I can
>get a reconditioned DeWalt which will certainlyout last me.
>...Art> 

Art, 
Perhaps I should have tacked on a "YMMV".  I have a Sears, Home Depot and
Acklands (a local auto/industrial supply chain) all within a 10 minute
drive.  When I need something I just go and get it.  I realise this may not
be practicle for others and your method may work better for them. And my
comment about $49 power tools still stands but, I forgot we're talking
different dollars. $49 Canadian will not get you much in the way of power
tools; remember the original poster was talking about a $49 drill press, not
a 3/8" drill.  That said, I DO have a 4" side grinder I bought at Sears 1/2
price sale for about $49 Cdn and it's great, not near as much poop as the 8"
Skil industrial I have for big jobs but much more convenient. I bought it
when I came across a job I couldn't do with the big one, not before.

YMMV, IMHO, etc. (wink)

Ross   MacPherson
TC-3528 , `66 BGT, NEMGT - #11849
Surrey, BC, Canada


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