16 thoughts on “When Phil shops at Horror Freight without his glasses.”
1/2 inch, now matter how you spell it out….
There’s nothing wrong here. It is 100% accurate, unless you want it to say 12.7 millimeter? But even then, it will be accurate.
🤔🤔😲😲😂😂
Sorry. Growing up metric but now in the US for 42 years I STILL get confused……
But hey, if Joseph Dombey had not been taken by pirates we also would have measurements here that make SENSE.
We fought a revolution to get away from all that metric shit. Fuck metric.
Metric didn’t exist then.
Anyway, the US is a charter member of the metric system, and the UK isn’t. And all our customary units are defined by law in metric terms. E.g., by law 1 inch is 2.54 cm.
That extra accuracy adds to the price.
Harbor freight is actually getting better. The ICON shit isn’t bad. Ever since craftsman moved most of their manufacturing to china, they can suck a big dick. It sucks. You break a good american tool and go thru the effin hassle of returning it online only to be replaced by chinese junk. Therefore if its chinese, might as well get H.F. junk thats easily returnable. Fuck You Craftsmen!!!
Now that right there is funny….if you’re a man bun wearing metrosexual sodomite that thinks Cubic Inch is a rectal insertment measurement…..
For the rest of us good ol red blooded Americans that grew up learning to work hard and twist a wrench…..I just ain’t got the words to express….look up every swear word in the English language dictionary…..and that will just be the opening sentence of my thousand page response to the democrats and their chinee overlords! Get ready!!!
Nah, it’s cause chinamen figger you cracka-ass crackas juss too dumb to reduce fractions en shid. Thass how you gets 12/16 insteda 3/4. Dem chinamen knows you crackas caint figger if 1/2 bigga er smalla dan 3/4, so dey gotsta write it 8/16 en 12/16.
Sheeeeit.
Glad most of my Sears tools sets were acquired in the 70’s and early 80’s. Those suckers are still doing yeoman’s work and have not broken yet (knock on wood).
As to Chinese tools, there are huge gradations in quality from absolute crap all the way to damned good. The trick is to find out which end of the spectrum you are on when looking at em.
Oh, and India is also now a bottom end quality tool supplier, so caveat emptor. My “toss in the back of the car” tool sets (don’t care if they rust or get stolen) is mostly India, Good for one or two uses in an emergency with possibly no busted knuckles, maybe
One bit of smarts, stop in at every freaking yard sale and estate sale you come across. I find high quality U.S. made tools there for pennies and swap out the cheaper China/India stuff in my boxes every chance I get. Like Phil, I collect tools and hope one or all of the 3 kids/grands will split them up. Iffn/when I croak maybe I won’t have to worry about my trove heading for an estate sale. 😉
This would funny except … a few weeks ago I was at the hot deli counter at my local grocery store. I ordered 1/3Lb of onion rings. The kid making up the order didn’t know what the digital scale should read when he weighed up the order. I had to tell him, otherwise I would have gotten 3 pounds of onion rings. A couple weeks later same order, different person, I also had to tell her what the digital scale should read. I guess they’re not teaching common fractional/decimal equivalents in school any more.
Beyond the obvious 8/16=1/2, I think the question is if it’s really a half inch wrench or something wrong. Did they mean 9/16 but don’t know how to tell an 8 from a 9? Or something completely different?
Maybe overthinking it?
Most of my tools are from the 70s/80s. When Sears allowed the craftsman line to go overseas, we had just ordered a number of mechanics sets at work. When they arrived, one look told me they were junk. Poor fit, crappy incomplete plating etc. Decided then and there that I was done.
I have had some luck with a couple local tool resellers. These guys buy from yard sales, estate sales, and auctions. You have to sort through some crap, but I have been able to keep the toolbox stocked up with second hand USA Craftsman tools, for pennies on the dollar VS. Original cost.
Terra,if you pass soon be glad to take your tools(not sure I have space to store em with so many!)if grandkids not into it,you have a old say project car/truck/scoot willing to teach em you croak,do that now with friends kids/pass it to next gen.,they will need it!
when sorting wrenches I always think in 16ths
4/16, 5/16,6/16s etc.
Food can sizes are always 16ths. A 303 can is 3-3/16 diameter. A 304 can is 3-4/16″ diameter.
Also re the comment about craftsman all of their hand tools (I think) are made in the US. If not all, most.
Many (most?) of their power tools are made in the US.
I like Craftsman. I still have a set of combo wrenches and a 3/8 socket set that my dad gave me for my 10th birthday in 1958 so I would stay out of his toolbox.
A lot of people don’t realize that Craftsman had (has?) 2 quality levels. I forget what they call the ones in the store but when I ran an industrial maintenance shop we bought all our tools from a sears rep that used to call on us. We bought Craftsman Commercial (or maybe industrial?) grade tools. Never had problems.
Anyone know if they still have 2 levels?
All my personal craftsman tools were storebought so regular grade. I am very happy with them.
Like the time I beat a combo wrench with a slugging hammer so hard that it bent double. Never slipped, either. Carried it to the store and they replaced it without even a “What the Hell did you do to that poor wrench?” No paperwork, the clerk just told me to get another one and chucked the bent one in a bin under the register.
1/2 inch, now matter how you spell it out….
There’s nothing wrong here. It is 100% accurate, unless you want it to say 12.7 millimeter? But even then, it will be accurate.
🤔🤔😲😲😂😂
Sorry. Growing up metric but now in the US for 42 years I STILL get confused……
But hey, if Joseph Dombey had not been taken by pirates we also would have measurements here that make SENSE.
We fought a revolution to get away from all that metric shit. Fuck metric.
Metric didn’t exist then.
Anyway, the US is a charter member of the metric system, and the UK isn’t. And all our customary units are defined by law in metric terms. E.g., by law 1 inch is 2.54 cm.
That extra accuracy adds to the price.
Harbor freight is actually getting better. The ICON shit isn’t bad. Ever since craftsman moved most of their manufacturing to china, they can suck a big dick. It sucks. You break a good american tool and go thru the effin hassle of returning it online only to be replaced by chinese junk. Therefore if its chinese, might as well get H.F. junk thats easily returnable. Fuck You Craftsmen!!!
Now that right there is funny….if you’re a man bun wearing metrosexual sodomite that thinks Cubic Inch is a rectal insertment measurement…..
For the rest of us good ol red blooded Americans that grew up learning to work hard and twist a wrench…..I just ain’t got the words to express….look up every swear word in the English language dictionary…..and that will just be the opening sentence of my thousand page response to the democrats and their chinee overlords! Get ready!!!
Nah, it’s cause chinamen figger you cracka-ass crackas juss too dumb to reduce fractions en shid. Thass how you gets 12/16 insteda 3/4. Dem chinamen knows you crackas caint figger if 1/2 bigga er smalla dan 3/4, so dey gotsta write it 8/16 en 12/16.
Sheeeeit.
Glad most of my Sears tools sets were acquired in the 70’s and early 80’s. Those suckers are still doing yeoman’s work and have not broken yet (knock on wood).
As to Chinese tools, there are huge gradations in quality from absolute crap all the way to damned good. The trick is to find out which end of the spectrum you are on when looking at em.
Oh, and India is also now a bottom end quality tool supplier, so caveat emptor. My “toss in the back of the car” tool sets (don’t care if they rust or get stolen) is mostly India, Good for one or two uses in an emergency with possibly no busted knuckles, maybe
One bit of smarts, stop in at every freaking yard sale and estate sale you come across. I find high quality U.S. made tools there for pennies and swap out the cheaper China/India stuff in my boxes every chance I get. Like Phil, I collect tools and hope one or all of the 3 kids/grands will split them up. Iffn/when I croak maybe I won’t have to worry about my trove heading for an estate sale. 😉
This would funny except … a few weeks ago I was at the hot deli counter at my local grocery store. I ordered 1/3Lb of onion rings. The kid making up the order didn’t know what the digital scale should read when he weighed up the order. I had to tell him, otherwise I would have gotten 3 pounds of onion rings. A couple weeks later same order, different person, I also had to tell her what the digital scale should read. I guess they’re not teaching common fractional/decimal equivalents in school any more.
Beyond the obvious 8/16=1/2, I think the question is if it’s really a half inch wrench or something wrong. Did they mean 9/16 but don’t know how to tell an 8 from a 9? Or something completely different?
Maybe overthinking it?
Most of my tools are from the 70s/80s. When Sears allowed the craftsman line to go overseas, we had just ordered a number of mechanics sets at work. When they arrived, one look told me they were junk. Poor fit, crappy incomplete plating etc. Decided then and there that I was done.
I have had some luck with a couple local tool resellers. These guys buy from yard sales, estate sales, and auctions. You have to sort through some crap, but I have been able to keep the toolbox stocked up with second hand USA Craftsman tools, for pennies on the dollar VS. Original cost.
Terra,if you pass soon be glad to take your tools(not sure I have space to store em with so many!)if grandkids not into it,you have a old say project car/truck/scoot willing to teach em you croak,do that now with friends kids/pass it to next gen.,they will need it!
when sorting wrenches I always think in 16ths
4/16, 5/16,6/16s etc.
Food can sizes are always 16ths. A 303 can is 3-3/16 diameter. A 304 can is 3-4/16″ diameter.
Also re the comment about craftsman all of their hand tools (I think) are made in the US. If not all, most.
Many (most?) of their power tools are made in the US.
I like Craftsman. I still have a set of combo wrenches and a 3/8 socket set that my dad gave me for my 10th birthday in 1958 so I would stay out of his toolbox.
A lot of people don’t realize that Craftsman had (has?) 2 quality levels. I forget what they call the ones in the store but when I ran an industrial maintenance shop we bought all our tools from a sears rep that used to call on us. We bought Craftsman Commercial (or maybe industrial?) grade tools. Never had problems.
Anyone know if they still have 2 levels?
All my personal craftsman tools were storebought so regular grade. I am very happy with them.
Like the time I beat a combo wrench with a slugging hammer so hard that it bent double. Never slipped, either. Carried it to the store and they replaced it without even a “What the Hell did you do to that poor wrench?” No paperwork, the clerk just told me to get another one and chucked the bent one in a bin under the register.