Crazy Stuff Stumpy Thinks About #12: What in the world IS THAT SMELL??????????????

I have only experienced the “Virtual” HF, up until yesterday that is. It truely is a special place for SPECIAL people. It’s a place for me, as I’ve been told that I am “Special”!!!

Funny stuff there Stumpy.

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!

Great minds think alike. HAHAHAHAHAHA! You may have an experience I will never know, No HF stores around me. I’ll have to go to one of the local box stores, Menards, my second home and pretend. :)

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Wait for the parking lot sale and you don’t have to smell it. I am telling you guy its the smell of Chinese grease. I love to take 50 or 60 bucks and just pick up test tools.
Thats it I am going today.

-- Superdav "No matter where you go - there you are." http://chiselandforge.com

I consider myself very fortunate to have a Harbor Freight and a Woodcraft right next to each other within reasonable driving distance from my house.

-- It's the best woodworking show since the invention of wood... New episodes Wednesdays at: http://www.stumpynubs.com

Mine is 20 miles away, as far as any other type of quality wood store, I am out of luck. Internet.

-- Superdav "No matter where you go - there you are." http://chiselandforge.com

Some may say ahhh I love the smell of Chinese plastic in the morning.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

I’ve never noticed a smell there, but then again, I like the aromas “bowling alley” and “fresh asphalt”.

-- My broker promised me he would treat my money as if it were his own. Trouble is, he did.

mine is bout 24 miles away, and if the wind blows in the right direction, I get a whiff o that aroma now n then. lol
somedays are worse than others. It is worse than being in a tire shop lookin at tires

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

I ve tried to get my shop to smell like that. but it never lasts. I think its a conspircy to make us have to keep coming back for a cheap tool fix. There ought to be a law. LOL….................Schloemoe

-- schloemoe, Oregon , http://www. woodrehab.blogspot.com

Stumpy i,ll bet you didn,t realize that we have two hf stores one south and one north a woodcraft store and a menards right in the back yard. and the smell from that is over whelming. no wonder all that we do is WOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yea.

-- BIG geo ---Occam,s razor The simplist answer is often correct

I wandered around HF yesterday. It’s hard to beat 29 drill bits with brad points for $13.99 You can’t sharpen them anyway and someone is always losing one or five. So I need to pick up a complete set ever so often.

I wish they had a set of them in Metric sizes for those just a little smaller. 1/64th of an inch sometimes is too much. I really need 1/128th of an inch size.

I never buy the extended warranty. You buy an air gun, Shoot 75 nails and in a year you pick it up again. It usually works, but if it doesn’t then buy another one.

Buy one of the $125.00 ones and you will have to keep getting it fixed if it breaks.

Foolish economy, I don’t think so. I don’t use it every day and I don’t make my living using it.

It’s kind of like my dad said when they cut up steaks on the farm. If the meat isn’t on one piece it’s on the other. If the tool doesn’t work today there is always tomorrow.

My HF is about 30 miles, & 80 miles (Woodcraft 80 miles) and 110 miles (Baltimore). But my Delaware ones are tax free. It’s nice buying something for 13.99 and giving them $14.00 and getting change.

Of course every issue of my AARP magazine has a 20% off coupon for 1 item at HF

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Casters and drill bits, casters and drill bits…

Oh, and that cute chick that always seems to have her register closed when I am ready to get rung out…

-- If I could just get this whole "Time/Money" problem figured out...

I live in Vermont, the closest HF is in Albany, NY, about a 4 hour drive one way. In the last couple of years, they have opened 4 HF on Long Island, NY, where family lives. Now I can travel to purchase new or return broken tools and while there, visit with family.

Notice that the reason for my trip is HF & not to visit family!!!!

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!

Harbor Freight, Lowes are both about 15 min from my place just in opposite directions from each other. Woodcraft or Rockler are 4 hours east or west from here. I love going to Harbor Freight they have some woodworking tools that nether of the Big Box Stores carry.

Love their spongy floor mats – the kind that are 2ft x 2ft and interlock. I think they are like a $1 a piece. But WOW – do they stink. I mean it is the worst thing I have ever smelled. They come wrapped in plastic which traps the odor. I unwrap them and let them sit outside for a couple of days. Then it is gone.

So maybe some of this is slowly leaking into the store and causing children to throw up. (?)

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon