Bob La Londe <no...@none.com99> wrote:
nice.
I took a friend over to the harbor freight and warned them the smell of
the place would be intense. We eventually had to leave for fresh air. I
can't even imagine what the prison/school sweatshops that churn out that
awful rubber and plastic stuff smell like.
The tools there are all pretty appalling except for maybe the impact
driver sockets. I didn't check the too carefully, but they appear OK to
use.
I did poke around at the 15 inch-ish drill to compare it to the Clausing
I'm trying to get working again. Everything down to the decals was crooked
on the HF drill press. I did get some orange Goop on the way out. The tiny
18" metal brake is still sort of tempting, maybe next time.
A few weeks ago I picked up a Roper-Whitney strip bender. Not sure if
that's the correct name but it will clamp down metal strips upto 2" wide
and bend them upto 90 degrees. I'm not sure of the rating, but it opens
up over a 1/4" and takes a 1" pipe for the handle so it's pretty tough.
It's 12" square less the handle and made of welded and machined angle iron
with a large cylinder of better grade steel for the part that forms the
bends.