Fear and Loathing at Harbor Freight

[Andrew Steere]

I'm actually the exact opposite on that.  I buy my wrenches from sears
because I'm fairly confident that I'll eventually break them and I've
always had zero trouble walking into sears and getting a replacement for
said broken sockets/wrenches.

I have to chime in with a positive Sears experience...a couple weeks ago, I
went to the Newington, NH, store to replace my usual assortment of broken
Craftsman hand tools.  OK, I felt guilty enough about using the screwdriver
as a chisel to just toss that one, but I did have a T-40 torx bit from my
various misadventures with Merkur halfshafts.

They were out of stock, but offered to ship me one in the mail.  I gave the
guy my address, and a week later, a package with THREE bits arrived, no
charge.  That's a pretty amazing turnaround from the usual "we're out for
now, tough #$%^" attitude they used to give.

And my last Harbor Freight experience was when I borrowed Marc's spring
compressor and ended up buying it when the threads stripped out on it
changing struts on my Saturn.  Ooops.

Anyway, thought I'd share a good experience--

--Andrew Steere
Dover, NH
03 Legacy Wagon
94 Saturn SL2
90 80q (bought it back!)
88 Merkur XR4Ti
two Merkur XR4Ti bodyshells and several tons of parts
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