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finally in NH... amherst nh rte 101.. gotta ck it out...

Were getting one soon too. I won't have to pretend I want to see the in-laws

Get on their coupon email list. Better coupons than in the flyers. Sometimes substantially less than the flyers. Lots of stuff on sale now.

123 ROUTE 101A, UNIT 3 AMHERST, NH 03031 Phone: 603-579-0658

HF Tools. Sooner or later, they will all be used as a hammer. These are the rules of Schroedering, and they are good.

triumph5 wrote: Lots of stuff on sale now.

If by now you mean always I agree. Never buy anything without a 20% off coupon. I've even used expired ones with a little convincing.

TJ wrote:

triumph5 wrote: Lots of stuff on sale now.

If by now you mean always I agree. Never buy anything without a 20% off coupon. I've even used expired ones with a little convincing.

E36 M3 the ones out now are good until the end of March!!!

I went on an HF binge over the last year or so and bought everything I needed and haven't been back but need to pick up the "helping hands" for modeling and painting soon.

http://www.harborfreight.com/helping-hands-319.html

Speaking of hands, I broke my finger when one of my HF sockets flowered on me and I swung through against the inner fender of my car. I don't blame HF since there was some bad judgment and laziness on my part. I should have known not to use a value priced socket to work a nut at 10/10's of my strength.

Since then, however, I use their impact sockets even by hand if I have the right size and I'm not too lazy to walk back the the bench to get it.

triumph5 wrote: Get on their coupon email list. Better coupons than in the flyers. Sometimes substantially less than the flyers. Lots of stuff on sale now.

+a bunch!

HF is dangerous. I always go in there for one thing, and end up buying FAR more than one thing. Can't really argue with cheap shop presses and whatnot.

Buy American before the Chinese own us.

They already do. Virtually every tool you buy had some of not all its roots offshore, if not in china. There are exceptions, of course, but, you're buying a made in the far east part or component on almost every purchase.

One bright note: the engines for the Fiat/Chrysler 500 will be built here in the USA.!

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

Find me some affordable American made tools and I will be all over it!

Joey

joey48442 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

Find me some affordable American made tools and I will be all over it! Joey

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bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

I agree, really. The really really really tough part is buying clothes. Find me ANY department store clothes made in the USA.

joey48442 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

Find me some affordable American made tools and I will be all over it! Joey

You get what you pay for. There are plenty of tool manufacturers in this country - Matco, who I worked for as an engineer, the other professional tool distributors, OTC, Lincoln, and many others. It's been a while since I worked at Matco, but at the time, the entire line of hand tools were made in the USA. Not cheap, but they are infinitely better than anything you can buy at HF. You get what you pay for. What most people don't realize is that we are so in debt to China that we can't put trade restrictions on importing their products so as not to tick them off. If that happens, they call in the debt and we crumble. This is serious, and if we don't stop buying chinese products we will soon become what they were 20 years ago and they will become us. I only hope Americans aren't so arrogant to realize this. Sorry, jumping off the soap box now...

bravenrace wrote:

joey48442 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

Find me some affordable American made tools and I will be all over it! Joey

You get what you pay for. There are plenty of tool manufacturers in this country - Matco, who I worked for as an engineer, the other professional tool distributors, OTC, Lincoln, White, Wright, and many others. It's been a while since I worked at Matco, but at the time, the entire line of hand tools were made in the USA. Not cheap, but they are infinitely better than anything you can buy at HF. You get what you pay for. What most people don't realize is that we are so in debt to China that we can't put trade restrictions on importing their products so as not to tick them off. If that happens, they call in the debt and we crumble. This is serious, and if we don't stop buying chinese products we will soon become what they were 20 years ago and they will become us. I only hope Americans aren't so arrogant to realize this. Sorry, jumping off the soap box now...

bravenrace wrote:

bravenrace wrote:

joey48442 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

Find me some affordable American made tools and I will be all over it! Joey

You get what you pay for. There are plenty of tool manufacturers in this country - Matco, who I worked for as an engineer, the other professional tool distributors, OTC, Lincoln, White, Wright, Lisle, Whiteside and many others. It's been a while since I worked at Matco, but at the time, the entire line of hand tools were made in the USA. Not cheap, but they are infinitely better than anything you can buy at HF. You get what you pay for. What most people don't realize is that we are so in debt to China that we can't put trade restrictions on importing their products so as not to tick them off. If that happens, they call in the debt and we crumble. This is serious, and if we don't stop buying chinese products we will soon become what they were 20 years ago and they will become us. I only hope Americans aren't so arrogant to realize this. Sorry, jumping off the soap box now...

http://www.madeinusa.org

Im just sayin...

and now that Ive said that, I will buy at HF if I cant find said item somewhere that also sells american tools. Its great to be able to purchase an american made whoozeewhatsit online if I know Im gonna need it next week, but theres not a lot of American made tools available retail near me, and if I end up needing it at 4:45pm on friday afternoon for a project that popped up unexpectedly, Im headed to HF. nuff said.

tuna55 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Buy American before the Chinese own us.

I agree, really. The really really really tough part is buying clothes. Find me ANY department store clothes made in the USA.

http://www.madeinusa.org/nav.cgi?data/clot

Pumpkin Escobar wrote: http://www.madeinusa.org Im just sayin... and now that Ive said that, I will buy at HF if I cant find said item somewhere that also sells american tools. Its great to be able to purchase an american made whoozeewhatsit online if I know Im gonna need it next week, but theres not a lot of American made tools available retail near me, and if I end up needing it at 4:45pm on friday afternoon for a project that popped up unexpectedly, Im headed to HF. nuff said.

EVERYTHING sold at HF is a cheap copy of a USA made tool. Yes, you may not be able to buy american at a local store, but all the major USA tool mfr's now sell online, so everything is readily available. If I need a tool fast, I'd buy it wherever I could find it, regardless of where it was made, but for planned purchases, every tool I own was made here. Even forgetting the origin, I have never bought anything at HF that was worth a crap. I don't understand why anyone would buy anything there.

So I clicked on that made in the USA link. Clicked on tools. Scrolled down, and the 4th entry? Harbor Freight.

bravenrace wrote: You get what you pay for.

Negative.

You pay for what you get.

Big difference.

mndsm wrote: So I clicked on that made in the USA link. Clicked on tools. Scrolled down, and the 4th entry? Harbor Freight.

Yes, because a couple items in their store are made in the USA. And the rest are made elsewhere.

slantvaliant wrote:

bravenrace wrote: You get what you pay for.

Negative. You pay for what you get. Big difference.

Yeah, big difference. But I meant that you get what you pay for.