Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:13:16 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: FAG or SKF wheel bearings?
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right on. I got a good floor jack from them, you can't beat their hardwood
furniture dollies when they have them for fourteen bucks or so just for
moving engines and stuff around. But I don't like to use their mechanics
tools except for an emergency set in the car. You can buy their small pick
set, but the metal is untempered and they will straighten right out on you.
They have a great magnetic lamp with an aluminum reflector and adjustable
frame, the trouble is that the switch is pure crap. It's one of those things
I want to work so badly that I've bought three. I know I will end up
throwing this one away, but they are the best trouble lamp for working on a
vanagon. Wish I could buy a good one somewhere!
Nothing HF sells is exemplary or even very good. But some of it will get you
by OK and can be a good value. You just have to know what not to get. I
would never have bought one of their big drill sets, with all the fractional
and letter size drills, hundreds of drills. But my dad did, and they passed
on to me, and I'll have to say those drills really cut and I'm picky about
that kind of stuff. The dial indicator and stand I've been using for 20
years came from them when they were a mail order outfit. Works fine.
Jim
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> fwiw, my Horbor Freight 120 or so dollar press was ok afte we welded some
> braces on it so it wouldn't flex so much..........
> and even then ..........it's cheap, things have bent on it just from using
> it.
> Frankly, .........some things from China Freight and Salvage are OK -
> doing fine with a floor jack..........
> but a lot of it........is made to the lowest possible barely acceptable
> standard, in China.
>
> Got a couple sets of their wheel dollies.........so you can push a car
> sideways or whereever on a smooth concrete floor.
> They just do not roll for beans with an ordinary 2WD vangon sitting on
> them. Just super el cheapo wheels and non-bearings. Sure wouldn't buy
> those again, not for their intended purpose anyway.
> My point is ..........
> Too often China Freight and Salvage stuff is just not up to even 'basically
> acceptable' standards.
> Scary how cheaply they make stuff in China. Some is all right, much of it
> not.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: FAG or SKF wheel bearings?
>
>
> It won't work, I checked. Takes a modified set or the "full" set from
>> FLAPS.
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>>
>> At 07:22 PM 8/7/2008, Jim Felder wrote...
>>>
>>> I got a similar quote for a shop just to press out and in new upper and
>>>> lower ball joints on my 83 steering knuckles. I told the guy that I
>>>> could
>>>> buy a harbor freight press for that
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Good luck with that. Given the odd angles, I don't think it can work with
>>> any unmodified "universal" set.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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