HF has honored everything I have ever taken back, including socket that
split that I clearly drove on with a sledge hammer.
Not only that but you can HAGGLE an extended warranty on everything that
doesnt have a life time warranty.
-Rolf
On 09/18/2011 03:31 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
I just
I just scrapped some batteries. 3 batteries got me $50.
Mike
On Sep 20, 2011 11:45 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
The battery. Last time I needed a battery FLAPS core was less than
the salvage price for a battery of $3-5. But I have not checked for
several years.
On Mon, Sep 19,
Michael Canfield wrote:
I just scrapped some batteries. 3 batteries got me $50.
I try to keep a couple of small ones on hand for trade-ins.
I'd never trade in a group 49 for a core charge. If they're giving $15-20 for
those I guess it's time to get rid of a dead one I've got laying around.
We must be getting ripped off in this part of the country. Last 49
battery I scrapped (last year) brought a whole $5 after he tried to
tell me it was worth $3. I told him it was way bigger than a car
battery and more like a truck battery, then he gave in.
I just scrapped some batteries.
Where I go they pay $.30 per pound.
Mike
On Sep 21, 2011 9:12 AM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
We must be getting ripped off in this part of the country. Last 49
battery I scrapped (last year) brought a whole $5 after he tried to
tell me it was worth $3. I told him it was way bigger
Dieselhead wrote:
Soon after, Penny's had a lifetime battery. I bought one of them.
they were better, but the second time they replaced it, they said that
was the last battery. Soon after, they closed all their auto centers.
I don't remember the lifetime Diehard. Rachel Veitch has had 8
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I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches
The battery.Last time I needed a battery FLAPS core was less than
the salvage price for a battery of $3-5. But I have not checked for
several years.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
The penny;s battery has been sitting dead for 21
years Some
Brian Toscano wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Hand_Tools
In 1985 SK became part of Facom Tools.
So that's why I started noticing warranty trouble in the spring of 1986.
Just minor stuff, the girl at the hardware store, instead of handing me a new
tool, spent ten minutes looking the
On Sunday, September 18, 2011 7:44 PM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote:
In the PNW the full S-K line of hand tools is available at a chain
called Baxter's Auto Parts, but I have no idea how widespread they
are.
Here you can find Armstrong tools at Fastenal outlets. I've not
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Here you can find Armstrong tools at Fastenal outlets.
I've not been there myself, but one just opened in town and I've been meaning
to check it out.
Armstrong stuff is excellent and priced less than SK. I believe
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Brian Toscano wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Hand_Tools
In 1985 SK became part of Facom Tools.
So that's why I started noticing warranty trouble in the spring of 1986.
That reflects rather badly on Facom.
Brian Toscano wrote:
In 1985 SK became part of Facom Tools.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Mitch Haley
So that's why I started noticing warranty trouble in the
spring of 1986.
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
That reflects rather badly on Facom. They're supposed to be
the French
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
That reflects rather badly on Facom. They're supposed to be the
French (Italian?) equivalent of Mac or Snap-On, absolutely the highest
pro quality (used by Ferrari's pit crews according to Richard Griot),
but if they give you trouble with warranty replacements...
On 19/09/2011 2:48 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
That reflects rather badly on Facom. They're supposed to be the
French (Italian?) equivalent of Mac or Snap-On, absolutely the highest
pro quality (used by Ferrari's pit crews according to Richard Griot),
but if they give you
Mitch Haley wrote:
Just the idea that my 'unconditional lifetime warranty' had suddenly
beome unconditional after ten years
Geez. Had suddenly become conditional, it should have said. The dealers had
received instructions not to accept items with suspicious scratches, like
wrenches and
Facom and SK have been divorced since the 1990's. SK tools was not doing well
and was recently purchased by another tool conglomerate maybe two years ago?
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On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
That reflects rather badly on
Yeah, I had the lifetime warrenty snears Die-easy batteries back
when they had that warranty. They lasted from a day to a year, and
snears didn't want to see me coming back. The last time, they told
me they changed the policy, and that was the last battery I'd get.
Soon after, Penny's had a
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
The penny;s battery has been sitting dead for 21
years Some year I will sell it for scrap.
The car or the battery? Around here FLAPS will give you $10-$20 off
the price of a new battery if you bring in an old one,
I just ordered this from HF:
http://www.harborfreight.com/7-piece-38-drive-metric-long-reach-hex-bit-socket-set-67890.html
My last customer service experience at Sears was so bad that I'm going
to try something different. I've almost always bought Craftsman tools,
even though I think their
You will get what you pay for.
I bought a $40 ball joint tool set, bent the C-clamp on the first
real job we tried (replacing W126 ball joints, a royal pain).
I just spent $180 on a Specialty Products ball joint tool set that
looked identical, but this time the clamp stayed true even
Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net writes:
A friend of mine bought an AC vacuum pump from them, then spent the
rest of the day looking for the oil for it. Nice pump, but no vacuum
pump oil in the store, no sign that it was necessary, the whole thing
was a pain.
I also bought an AC vacuum
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and
1/2 drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the
sockets. In fact I still recommend buying a crapsman 1 1/16 deep
socket for injector holder RR. The combination wrenches, however,
were another story. The
Some of the HF stuff seems OK, I bought a set of long combo wrenches to
get up in some spaces on my house addition where I was setting some lag
bolts and nuts, they seem nicely balanced, well-polished, and did the
job. I have some other kinda specialty stuff I got from them (some
star
Dieselhead wrote:
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and 1/2
drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the sockets.
Yah, well...
I broke my '70's 10mm socket while trying to recover your set of
seatbelts from the carcass.
I fear to go to Sears for a
Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com writes:
I broke my '70's 10mm socket while trying to recover your set of
seatbelts from the carcass.
I fear to go to Sears for a replacement. I guess I should go to the
pawn shop and hope to find a WF socket.
I've never had an argument from Sears about
to
take them in to Sear and swap for new ones
Dan
From: Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:18 PM
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Mountain Man maontin
Dan wrote:
You will have no questions. Take it in, find a salesperson, tell them it
broke, they'll pick out a replacement for you. No questions asked.
Yabbut...
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
Plus, anything sold today is probably not
sockets, the only complaint I have is the
laser etching can be kind of hard to read. Otherwise again I've never hurt one
or had it round a bolt.
-Curt
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To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] First experiment with HF tools
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I just ordered this from HF:
http
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I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and
1/2 drive sockets in the 70s. I have never
Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com writes:
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
They won't replace the whole set, but should replace the individual
broken socket. Whether they actually have 6 point sockets for sale
individually is another
Proto wrenches are the best. Blackhawk and armsrtrong are also good.
Walt
On Sep 18, 2011 4:40 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and
1/2 drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the
sockets. In fact I still
HF is my choice for shit I don't need and the stuff I only use once.
I bought a @ 25 cordless drill, 18V.
after four #12 x 1..5 screws
??
Before that I bought a 16 orbital Polisher.
Myself and several 'freinds' couldn't wear it out.
If you spell HF backwards it comes ot as Pot Luck.
You get what
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I finally bought an SK ratchet on Amazon as I was so tired of my Crapsman
1/2 locking up and not ratcheting or slipping into the wrong direction.
SK is a decent brand of hand tools. The stuff I've had from them has been
OK. Usually purchased online from someplace like toolwarehouse.net.
Brian
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
SK tools. Pretty well known brand.
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On Sep 18, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I finally bought an SK ratchet
Hans Neureiter wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
You're kidding. Best tools to never ride a tool truck.
Between MAC/MATCO and old Craftsman level.
http://www.skhandtool.com/
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You should have plenty of snears around Chicagoland. Give them a try
first. It might work.
Yabbut...
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
Plus, anything sold today is probably not Western Forge - probably china, no?
mao
S-K used to be found in good hardware stores in independent FLAPS.
Since the walmartization of autoparts, they are close to unobtanium
locally. IF they are as good as they used to be, they as good as
anything Snappy ever ripped someone off for. If you can find a S-K
rachet from the 60s, it
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
S-K used to be found in good hardware stores in independent FLAPS. Since the
walmartization of autoparts, they are close to unobtanium locally.
In the PNW the full S-K line of hand tools is available at a chain
called
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
Brands I have in my box are Armstrong, Craftsmen, Korean chumnk and , no I
don't naver bought one - Snap-On.
(loose a few...)
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dieselhead
Hans Neureiter wrote:
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
That is the brand. S-K. It probably does stand for something, but on the
tools that's all it has.
--Philip
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Hand_Tools
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hans Neureiter wrote:
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
That is the brand. S-K. It probably does stand for something, but on the
tools that's all it has.
--Philip
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