Been a while since you bought tires Bill? Hoosiers sure have gotten
expensive since they became the only game in town.
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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of William G Rosenbach
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:11 PM
To: lang@isis.mit.edu
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: aluminum jacks
My response was also tongue-in-cheek. You do get what you pay for and I'm
sure the high price unit will out last the cheapie by at least the factor of
the price difference. The cheap Oriental origin steel floor jack I bought
years ago is still functioning. The cheap Al jacks will probably do similar,
won't hurt as bad when it gets pilfered, and there's at least a set of tyres
in the difference to give you a reason to use the jack.
Bill
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:49:47 -0400 (EDT) "Robert M. Lang"
<lang@isis.mit.edu> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I think UnKle Jack's response was tongue-in-cheek.
>
> The $800 jacks are def. worth more than the $100 jacks. The question
> is - with the $100 jobbies you can have spares, with the $800 jack you
> have the reasonable expectation that the thing will last a long time.
>
> But Triumph owners are used to have piles of spares around... I'm
> thinking we'll see more of the $100 jobbies around the FOT paddock.
>
> FWIW, the autocross crowd uses the $100 Harbor Frieght jobbies almost
> exclusively. At the last couple of SCCA National Tour events that
> I'vebeen at everyone had those things.
>
> Me - I bought a $200 Craftsman unit. I figured the "middle of the
> road"
> was a safe path. Kind of like my political views. :-)
>
> rml
>
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