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Right now in my sop I have a room full of Harbor Freight Stuff. . Lets start with my milling machine, it's a 3hp with a 9" x 49 table tht has a 12" x 37" travel, A one shot lub system, harden and ground ways on both the "X" . "Y" , & :"Z" axies it has a 5" spindle travel ead tilts 90* in both directions, plus 45* foreward tilt, It has a power feed on the spindle, plus a handle for quick feed and / or I have installed power feed to the table on it's ""X" & "Y" movements and a heavy duty on the knee, 150 lbs torque. I now have had this machine for over the last 57 years and the total cost for everything ran a little under 5K. My older lathe a !@ x 37" belt drive is still operating even though I have replaced it with a new gear headed machine, In 1986 I purchased it for around $!800.00 and sold it last year for $1300.00, lets see anybody do that on ANY OTHER LATHE. I have purchased heir Powder Miter saw for $109.00 and it still runs very well thank you very much, In fact It works so well That in my new shop set up i have not yet hooked up my Sears 10" Radial arnm saw. I have also purchased the following items which are still running vary well;
A 6" X 18" Surface Grinder w/ a 6" X 12" mag table.
12" sander
Quick change tooling for my lathe
A 8" rotary table for my lathe
Heat gun
Propane HEAT GUN< Small hand held
17" Table Drill Press
This list could go on for just about ever. I have never had one piece of equipment to date fail or have I discarded it because it was not working very well anymore. I love my $5000.00 milling machine which by the way was the machine that built over 350 of my pullers, which are not junk.. The only things I'm going to add to the Milling Machine is a Sony table measuring system.. One of the reasons that bought it from Harbor Freight is because they were the only source at that time that offered a 220 volt single phase motor.
If you had a bad relationship with them just call heir customer relations department and i'm more than sure that they will see it you way.
RK
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Date: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:03:33 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Stuff you need?
In a message dated 8/22/03 12:15:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harbor Freight tools are crap!
Depends on what you buy! Same about the RK post about Kitts. My 42"belt sanders (3) came from Kitts at $109.99 each of course that was 4 years ago.......they are still running!
My compressors (3) from Harbor Freight are great have been running from 2-6 years.
It's like anything you buy, you have to know what you are looking at and what you are looking for. Then look at the price and decide who gets your business.
Some times it helps to ask a person who owns one!
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