Harbor Freight battery leakage

Stormin Mormon

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Mar 1, 2010, 9:14:04 PM3/1/10

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First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
went to my shelf for something today, and find
that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.
Between then, about 20 batteries had leaked. Less
than a year old, not been recharged, brand new in
the package.

I'm rather disappointed.

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Jon Elson

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Mar 1, 2010, 11:43:44 PM3/1/10

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Stormin Mormon wrote:
> First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
> went to my shelf for something today, and find
> that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
> Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.
> Between then, about 20 batteries had leaked. Less
> than a year old, not been recharged, brand new in
> the package.
>
> I'm rather disappointed.
>

With a Harbor Freight item? You gotta be kidding!
I have only bought
about 2 items from them in 15 years. I got a
couple good items from them about 25-30 years ago,
but their quality went in the toilet and I stopped
buying from them
WAY back. The has to be a reason everybody comes
up with funny names for this outfit, along the
lines of "horrible fright".

Jon

Beryl

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Mar 2, 2010, 1:29:14 AM3/2/10

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Stormin Mormon wrote:
> First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
> went to my shelf for something today, and find
> that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
> Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.
> Between then, about 20 batteries had leaked. Less
> than a year old, not been recharged, brand new in
> the package.
>
> I'm rather disappointed.

See where it says "Thudnerbolt" on the package?
There's the clue, they're counterfeit!
You didn't bring home Genuine HF Quality batteries.

Joe

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Mar 2, 2010, 7:03:50 AM3/2/10

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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 21:14:04 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote:

>First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
>went to my shelf for something today, and find
>that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
>Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.
>Between then, about 20 batteries had leaked. Less
>than a year old, not been recharged, brand new in
>the package.
>
>I'm rather disappointed.

Chinese-made batteries strike again!

Joe

Larry Jaques

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Mar 2, 2010, 12:37:01 PM3/2/10

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On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:43:44 -0600, the infamous Jon Elson
<el...@pico-systems.com> scrawled the following:

>Stormin Mormon wrote:
>> First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
>> went to my shelf for something today, and find
>> that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
>> Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.
>> Between then, about 20 batteries had leaked. Less
>> than a year old, not been recharged, brand new in
>> the package.
>>
>> I'm rather disappointed.
>>
>With a Harbor Freight item? You gotta be kidding!
> I have only bought
>about 2 items from them in 15 years. I got a
>couple good items from them about 25-30 years ago,

Out of the hundreds of items I've purchased from HF over the past 40
years, I can probably name only a dozen which were truly trash. The
rest were decent, some truly great.

>but their quality went in the toilet and I stopped
>buying from them
>WAY back. The has to be a reason everybody comes
>up with funny names for this outfit, along the
>lines of "horrible fright".

I've seen just the opposite. Quality levels are up, especially in the
electrical items. Yes, I've returned items and warrantied a few
others. The quality of the replacements was great in most cases. One
recent problem I had was with their Greenlee clone dies. One noodle
factory made the dies, another made the fasteners, and though they
were the same thread, the were way off in diameters. The screw
stripped out before I even got it halfway tightened. 3 other sets in
the store were equally bogus so I ended up buying a real (used)
Greenley set for about the same price via eBay. But that kind of low
quality is infrequent in HF today.

Vive la Frugal!

--
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Cydrome Leader

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Mar 2, 2010, 1:06:11 PM3/2/10

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Stormin Mormon <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote:
> First time I've had trouble with HF batteries. I
> went to my shelf for something today, and find
> that two packages of brand new HF "Thudnerbolt
> Magnum" AA cells had leaked. Two eaches 24 packs.

Maybe you should switch to SunPower KingSuper batteries.

They live up to the name.

Gunner Asch

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Mar 5, 2010, 1:16:30 PM3/5/10

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Indeed. I agree.

Gunner

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wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.