[Mgs] Harbor Freight Not Really LBC

[Rod Williams]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Murray Arundell wrote:

> The reasons for this escape me and perhaps some of our US members
> could explain why this form of buying things is so popular there
Because lots of places around the US don't have many of the stores  
that are available easily online. It doesn't make a lot of sense to  
drive 45 miles round trip, at $.55 / mile, to buy a $20 tool when it  
can be delivered to my door in a couple of days for $3 shipping. I  
just bought a blasting cabinet at HF. The bloody thing weighs a ton  
and is big. So I drove to pick it up. But the $12 angle grinder could  
have just as easily been purchased online and saved me two hours and  
$25 auto expense. That said, I'm leery of buying anything at Horrible  
Fright without looking at it first. So much of their stuff is, um,  
less than mil-spec.
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Rod Williams
Petaluma, California
1967 MGB