On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:05:11 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> yep. they started in the 70s. My first purchase from them, when we lived in "The Little Mobile Home on the Prairie" south of Calhan, Colorado, in the 1980s was the 1-ton chain hoist I am still using. The second, I think, in the same timeframe was a 8" bench grinder. Craig > fmiser via Mercedes wrote on 9/13/19 11:28 AM: > >> Curley wrote: > >> I thought HF had them for about $50, but they have raised prices > >> to where I can buy one locally for less. My guess is that HF > >> has passed to the next generation, and they are greedy. In the > >> last year or two their prices are often higher than elsewhere. > >> It is no longer the purveyor of cheep chinee chit. > > Harbor Freight used to be Harbor Freight Salvage and was a mail > > order outfit from somewhere in CA. Their catalog was 1 color on > > newsprint like paper - low cost. I think it was about 1983 or so > > that I first bought from them, but I'm pretty sure I had been > > getting their catalogs for a while. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
