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[alfa] Re: Parts cleaning and Storage



Richard. Aren't you throwing the baby out with the bath water here? Sure, Harbor Freight sells a lot of junk, much of it from mainland China and the "better" stuff from Taiwan. But I've a mechanic's tool set that I put together out of tools bought from HF that I simply wouldn't have without them. Their wrench sets are fine, and if you break one, who cares? They're so cheap, you just buy another. I've bought big socket sets from them for practically nothing that, if bought from Snap-On or Craftsman would have cost hundreds of dollars. As far as quality is concerned, all I can say is that it got my steering wheel nut off and the socket didn't break. I've purchased breaker bars, socket extensions, a set of ratcheting box wrenches, a plier set, air compressor hoses, a nifty heavy-duty tire gauge, and countless other trinkets from them. Would I have bought this stuff if I were working on cars professionally? NO. But for light, occasional duty, I see nothing wrong with any of it. Just recently, I took the air damn off of my GTV-6 (Alfa content) to repaint it. Before putting it back, I used a Harbor Freight pop-rivet type captive nut inserter to insert captive nuts on the inside lip of the front fender where the air-damn wraps around the wheel well. Now, instead of having to fish a nut behind behind there, the screw holding the damn in-place just threads into the captive nuts. I paid $20 for the blind-nut pop-rivet gun and a supply of different sized pop-nuts. A "good" one would have set me back more than $100. My point is that if you shop carefully, with an eye to how often you are going to use a tool, Harbor Freight just MIGHT be the ticket in a lot of places.


George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'

On Oct 27, 2003, at 12:43 AM, alfa-digest wrote:


Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:54:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [alfa] re: Parts cleaning and Storage
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richard
(who doesn't buy from harbor freight anymore)
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