[Shop-talk] Eastwood vs Harbor Freight

[Wayne]

Hey Nolan,  might want to check the clock/calendar on your PC.  Looks 
like they might be off a couple days.

Nolan wrote:
> Not saying everything Eastwood or Snap On sells is rebadged cheap junk.  Not 
> by a long shot. Much of what they carry is very good and often times unique. 
> But by no means is all of it that way. 

I agree, a lot of the stuff truly is identical.  However, you have to 
remember how Chinese product cloning works:  they apparently get 
requests to "build a copy of this" and are given some existing product, 
which they half-ass reverse engineer and churn out a superficially 
similar looking product, that is not identical and usually lower quality.

Guess I'm saying, you need to go beyond exterior appearance to determine 
if things are really identical.

   -Wayne