Harbor Freight/Honda smackdown....
I see HF is now offering a 3500 (maximum) watt PSW inverter with all the bells and whistles for $700.00 (regular price. Even looks like the Honda that retails for $1999.00 the HF puts out a bit ...
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"Cheaper to make. Only reason that makes sense. Anybody can make anything cheaper, but if you're after reliability, service and longevity, you'll pay more for that. After a lifetime of buying things, I've come to that conclusion"
There are exceptions. My opinion is "Blanket Rules" apply mostly to blankets.
An example: Price a Snap-On or Mac screwdriver then hold it up to a Wiha. Not only is the Wiha a FAR better screwdriver, it costs considerably less.
Forty years ago, I purchased a 2,000 lb Hein Werner floor jack. Two hundred dollars worth. Took it home jacked up a 2,200 pound car, the right front wheel. The jack pi--sed hydraulic fluid. The store and Hein Werner claimed I had overloaded the jack. Guess who forfeited several thousand dollars in jack sales the next several decades? I still to this day refuse to be around a Hein Werner product - if they aren't out of business.
Stripping the gears out of a nearly new sixty (now a hundred twenty) dollar Snap-On ratchet? Rebuilding an alternator (!)
Having a five hundred dollar Snap On AVR (like a Sun VAT 40) malfunction on day 2 of ownership?
I'll do a face-off of a Harbor Fright versus and Dack & Blecker drill any day of the week. "Oh tell me Mr. Representative why is my Dack & Blecker 1/2" drill far less powerful than my Dack & Blecker 3/8" drill?" (OH! IT'S BECAUSE OUR HALF-INCH DRILL IS NOT A HEAVY-DUTY DRILL) Another brand non-gratis in my presence.
But buyer beware. Much harbor fright stuff is fit only for recycling as it leaves the manufacturing plant loading dock in Panda Land. If you want electrical ring terminals with the ring hole bored off center Harbor Fright is the place to go, yet their heat shrink terminals and their marine heat shrink assortment is great quality.
Step lightly. Avoid the land mines...
There are exceptions. My opinion is "Blanket Rules" apply mostly to blankets.
An example: Price a Snap-On or Mac screwdriver then hold it up to a Wiha. Not only is the Wiha a FAR better screwdriver, it costs considerably less.
Forty years ago, I purchased a 2,000 lb Hein Werner floor jack. Two hundred dollars worth. Took it home jacked up a 2,200 pound car, the right front wheel. The jack pi--sed hydraulic fluid. The store and Hein Werner claimed I had overloaded the jack. Guess who forfeited several thousand dollars in jack sales the next several decades? I still to this day refuse to be around a Hein Werner product - if they aren't out of business.
Stripping the gears out of a nearly new sixty (now a hundred twenty) dollar Snap-On ratchet? Rebuilding an alternator (!)
Having a five hundred dollar Snap On AVR (like a Sun VAT 40) malfunction on day 2 of ownership?
I'll do a face-off of a Harbor Fright versus and Dack & Blecker drill any day of the week. "Oh tell me Mr. Representative why is my Dack & Blecker 1/2" drill far less powerful than my Dack & Blecker 3/8" drill?" (OH! IT'S BECAUSE OUR HALF-INCH DRILL IS NOT A HEAVY-DUTY DRILL) Another brand non-gratis in my presence.
But buyer beware. Much harbor fright stuff is fit only for recycling as it leaves the manufacturing plant loading dock in Panda Land. If you want electrical ring terminals with the ring hole bored off center Harbor Fright is the place to go, yet their heat shrink terminals and their marine heat shrink assortment is great quality.
Step lightly. Avoid the land mines...
