Generator
If you have owned a Predator (Harbor Freight) generator and have several hours on it I would like to know what you think. Thanks
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The little 2-cycle has been great for emergencies. I sent one to Jesus along with a Bosch platinum spark plug. He mixes 2-cycle oil into Pemex Premium which is refined in the USA with a touch of Chevron Techron from a bottle. He cannot keep the generator at the beach because it loses ignition but taking it from the house it starts 3rd pull every time. He lets it run out of gas powering the freezers for 5 hours. He just wrote to me and said last night the critter ran all night the day before.
I have an HF angle drill that would shred a DeWalt or a Bosch. It needs a new chuck after 15 years. Too heavy.
Because it was so superior but too heavy for my hands I gave a WEN (read it and weep) 300-watt soldering gun to my buddy Celso. 100% made in the USA. Same as the switch and transformer. Far sturdier than the now made in China "other band".
The best brand of small drill ever made is a Sioux. It makes Bosch and other brands look like gahr-BAGE. USA made.
Wanna shock? Price check the OTHER brand of 500-amp rated battery load tester. The HF carbon pile is twitchy and the unit desperately needs a high-speed cooling fan but for a six-hundred dollar price difference, It'll do.
House brands, any brand -- a person has to do their homework before buying anything these days. I hugely prefer Kirkland Signature mayonnaise over Best Foods, will choose an OTC tool even at twice the price (The Snap-On O2 sensor tool SPREAD trying to remove the sensor on my car), and the list goes on and on.
I have come to like the star ratings of Harbor Freight and Amazon. Some reviewers rip open a package as soon as it's delivered and then run to the keyboard to review it. STUPID.
Oh yeah. I have a WEN bench top drill press now and I love it. It does not belong in a machine shop but for electronics it is superb. My M3 LED heatsink holes are now perfect.
This website has superb rated reviews since I can work my way through the reviews and neuter the obviously strong-willed responses. Another oh yeah. My WE0N service cart. Plastic. It was introduced on eBay for forty dollars. It's every bit as good as a $120 Rubber Made cart.
But I love the world inventory available now. I am building a charger to my neurotic standards for a friend in Alaska. Every wire inside is silicone for flexibility and meeting AWG size. The switches are Mil-Spec. And gauges are twin analog and digital. This would have been hard to do twenty years ago. But I am building it to Arctic and Arizona standards, which means EB Pabst cooling fans (2) SOW 12/3 power cord with hospital grade plug. Bourns 25 turn pots, the whole shebang. Let's not talk about how long it's taking me to build this.
But from heaters to AC units to everything else I SNEER at the percentage of so-called RV appliances that are little more than junk. I have 3 window A/C units in Quicksilver that have never done more than burp over roads that would SHRED a standard RV. The refrigerator and freezer have worked perfectly, try a -4 F freezer when outside temps were a deadly 122F 50c. I am too sensitive with **** that breaks or doesn't work right.
I have an HF angle drill that would shred a DeWalt or a Bosch. It needs a new chuck after 15 years. Too heavy.
Because it was so superior but too heavy for my hands I gave a WEN (read it and weep) 300-watt soldering gun to my buddy Celso. 100% made in the USA. Same as the switch and transformer. Far sturdier than the now made in China "other band".
The best brand of small drill ever made is a Sioux. It makes Bosch and other brands look like gahr-BAGE. USA made.
Wanna shock? Price check the OTHER brand of 500-amp rated battery load tester. The HF carbon pile is twitchy and the unit desperately needs a high-speed cooling fan but for a six-hundred dollar price difference, It'll do.
House brands, any brand -- a person has to do their homework before buying anything these days. I hugely prefer Kirkland Signature mayonnaise over Best Foods, will choose an OTC tool even at twice the price (The Snap-On O2 sensor tool SPREAD trying to remove the sensor on my car), and the list goes on and on.
I have come to like the star ratings of Harbor Freight and Amazon. Some reviewers rip open a package as soon as it's delivered and then run to the keyboard to review it. STUPID.
Oh yeah. I have a WEN bench top drill press now and I love it. It does not belong in a machine shop but for electronics it is superb. My M3 LED heatsink holes are now perfect.
This website has superb rated reviews since I can work my way through the reviews and neuter the obviously strong-willed responses. Another oh yeah. My WE0N service cart. Plastic. It was introduced on eBay for forty dollars. It's every bit as good as a $120 Rubber Made cart.
But I love the world inventory available now. I am building a charger to my neurotic standards for a friend in Alaska. Every wire inside is silicone for flexibility and meeting AWG size. The switches are Mil-Spec. And gauges are twin analog and digital. This would have been hard to do twenty years ago. But I am building it to Arctic and Arizona standards, which means EB Pabst cooling fans (2) SOW 12/3 power cord with hospital grade plug. Bourns 25 turn pots, the whole shebang. Let's not talk about how long it's taking me to build this.
But from heaters to AC units to everything else I SNEER at the percentage of so-called RV appliances that are little more than junk. I have 3 window A/C units in Quicksilver that have never done more than burp over roads that would SHRED a standard RV. The refrigerator and freezer have worked perfectly, try a -4 F freezer when outside temps were a deadly 122F 50c. I am too sensitive with **** that breaks or doesn't work right.
