[AT] OT: Harbor Freight advertising funny

[Richard Fink Sr]

Farmer on that item. I talked to a salesman at grizzly[not sure of 
spelling] tools he told me the ones with quality control over there are 
very good. It all depends on how they let them come through. From so so to 
top of the line.
R Fink
PA





At 10:03 AM 12/28/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>         You know, while a lot of guys have been spending a lot of
>time bad mouthing those Chinese tools (not just on this
>list) something amazing has been quietly happening... Many
>of those tools have been getting better and better. It is a
>little like what happened to Japanese stuff which was all
>crap when I was growing up but now they make some of the
>best. Then it was Korea and Taiwan then  China. As time
>past they all got to exporting better and better stuff. I
>have been seeing some really nice tools that said made in
>China this year... Quality stuff with good steel and nicely
>finished. But in the case of China it has happened rapidly,
>not after 3 or 4 decades.
>         Yeah, they still send out some crap, so do we... But walk
>into a TSC and take an honest look at some of that stuff
>that says made in China. Their knock-off Vice-grips as just
>one example. They used to be thin, soft, crude and
>obviously junk. Now you have to look close to tell that
>they are not regular Vice-grips.
>
>
>--
>"farmer"
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana, USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
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>
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