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Subject:Re: Tools: ya gets what ya pays for
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:22:46 -0600

I have $60 worth ofd HF tools for my sparekit, but I got the Elkind
allen heads since they were made in the US and as cheap as the HF
stuff.  How I got $60 worth of HF tools stuffed in a surplus army
ammo box is beyond me.....

DM&FS

At 05:30 PM 1/23/2012, Jim Felder wrote:
>Do we have a class action suit going here?
>
>Jim
>
>On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They need to fire the guy who is in charge of the 6mm setup.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 6mm AH same hF wrench I broke
> >>
> >> Karl Wolz
> >> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
> >>
> >> On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Last weekend I was changing a timing belt on one of my diesel so the
> >> crank
> >> > pulley had to come off. I was using my Harbor Freight "road" set of 3/8
> >> > allen wrenches for the job when the 6mm wrench I was using snapped off.
> >> The
> >> > first thing that went through my head was "I'm sure glad I wasn't
> >> depending
> >> > on that to get me back on the road 300 miles from home." I have not had
> >> a
> >> > tool just snap like that since I broke a 13mm Globemaster wrench on a VW
> >> > carburetor nut. It made revisit the wisdom of "grabbing some cheap
> >> tools as
> >> > spares to carry with you."
> >> >
> >> > Jim
> >>
> >
> >