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 that are high quality
but they do cost more more. I would really like to find a nail that does
not bend when you drive it into a piece of wood. Same goes for the screws
that snap off.
I did buy a really cheap bottle jack this weekend. I need to make a carpet
power stretcher from a knee kicker. The area was too small for a real power
stretcher. The jack held up for the 20 minutes of work that this took and
it only started to leak oil at the end. Not bad for a cheap import. You
have to love disposable tools that are only good for one use. My garage
floor jack is a high quality AC floor jack (
http://www.ultimategarage.com/hmach.html) 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
On 2/13/07, Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> David Lieb wrote:
> > Some of us CAN get along with
> > Chinese tools. At least most of the time.
>
> 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 nails and screws all rusty and all galvanized that need
> to go down some chinks throat cause they are useless to me.
> I will NEVER buy anything from ching chang freight again.
> Ask my plumber what happens to chinese made valves in a year, they snap
> off when you need to turn them off.
> I built my reputation on QUALITY, a word the chinks just never heard of.
> I will not buy any building materials at home cheapo and if I am on a
> job I can pick out the crap plywood from across the room. And it's all
> gonna bite them in the ass sooner or later. Sooner I hope because they
> managed to put all the quality lumber yards out of business or forced
> them to buy sub-standard nails, screws, tools, and hardware.
> I have seen 1/2" galvanized bolts from HD in a deck ledger sheer off.
> Dung forged steel full of impurities just like my brake.
> But go right on buying the chinese stuff, somebody, certainly not me,
> has to contribute to the US trade deficit.
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