Posted: 6/22/2009 9:16:47 PM EDT
I broke the jack on my portable 24' Travel Trailer Motel Six on Wheels this evening. What to do I asked myself while calling a friend over.
Before my friend's arrival I flew to Tractor Supply in search of a new jack bearing the same tri bolt pattern. When I returned, my friend showed me where the three little bolts were at and asked me if I had any tools. "Sure, I have lots of tools, let us get started with my 9/16" ratchet socket that I paid the better part of four dollars for almost twelve years ago in Walmart." 
I lined up the socket on the first bolt and wailed away at it. I felt the bolt turn and then skinned my knuckles as I sheared the pin between the ratchet and the socket from my Cheap Chinese Tool Kit! 
"Not to worry, I mused to my friend. I think of tools just as my guns. I always have a few laying around for just such a predicament." 
I lined up the socket from a new in the box Cheap Chinese Socket and Ratchet set. Within the next half turn, I sheared it with super red neck strength! 
"Ding Dong Dang!!" 
My friend mounted his motorcycle to find a suitable tool, while I proceeded to break the rest of my Cheap Chinese Tools! I heard a rumbling in the distance and saw my friend returing on his Harley bearing a Craftsman Ratchet and matching socket. "you can't possibly break this one" he said as he handed me a real tool with sleak lines and the Craftsman Name. 
Within a few moments, I removed the old jack and installed the new. Double Ding Dang Dong!! No more CHEAP CHINESE TOOLS!!! 
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"The only thing worst than having a broken tool, is having a broken tool in the rain."
I always buy quality tools, even the good PRC-mades ones are pretty good. I have a cheap set of tools made in Pakistan for my car, in case some one breaks in and steals it, I am not out of a lot of money. |
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back in the earl 80's when I was an apprentice I used to go to estate sales and auctions, yard sales also to get tools.
though back then I can't remember any Chi Com stuff. Mostly old U.S. stuff Williams,Proto,SK. Rigid, Craftsman. I'm sure good stuff's out there cheap, you just gotta wait till an old guy dies. I'm sure my shit will go for pennies on the dollar in a few years 
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Once an acquaintance of mine here had a new fruit cutting knife, and he tried to cut a pomelo open with it and it broke. I don't really bash the Chi Com's much but some of there stuff is just a waste of good raw materials. I have no problems with the Norinco Mak 90's, kitchen utensils and other stuff is another matter. |
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Once an acquaintance of mine here had a new fruit cutting knife, and he tried to cut a pomelo open with it and it broke. I don't really bash the Chi Com's much but some of there stuff is just a waste of good raw materials. I have no problems with the Norinco Mak 90's, kitchen utensils and other stuff is another matter. Yup, there's a whole spectrum of quality, all made here, and largely sold here too. The Chinese do appreciate buying durable things like rice cookers and whatnot, since they hate to waste their money. The US gets what it wants from China, and the past decade or so, what we've wanted is things so cheap you can buy another one if it breaks. |
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Quoted: I broke the jack on my portable 24' Travel Trailer Motel Six on Wheels this evening. What to do I asked myself while calling a friend over.Before my friend's arrival I flew to Tractor Supply in search of a new jack bearing the same tri bolt pattern. When I returned, my friend showed me where the three little bolts were at and asked me if I had any tools. "Sure, I have lots of tools, let us get started with my 9/16" ratchet socket that I paid the better part of four dollars for almost twelve years ago in Walmart." I lined up the socket on the first bolt and wailed away at it. I felt the bolt turn and then skinned my knuckles as I sheared the pin between the ratchet and the socket from my Cheap Chinese Tool Kit! "Not to worry, I mused to my friend. I think of tools just as my guns. I always have a few laying around for just such a predicament." I lined up the socket from a new in the box Cheap Chinese Socket and Ratchet set. Within the next half turn, I sheared it with super red neck strength! "Ding Dong Dang!!" My friend mounted his motorcycle to find a suitable tool, while I proceeded to break the rest of my Cheap Chinese Tools! I heard a rumbling in the distance and saw my friend returing on his Harley bearing a Craftsman Ratchet and matching socket. "you can't possibly break this one" he said as he handed me a real tool with sleak lines and the Craftsman Name. Within a few moments, I removed the old jack and installed the new. Double Ding Dang Dong!! No more CHEAP CHINESE TOOLS!!! So your guns do they have names like Raven Vulcan Glock Lorcin? |
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What cheap, Chinese crap tools I have (that I purchased almost 20 years ago before I knew better), I use around the house for light wrenching duty.
For automobiles or anything critical, I use my Sear's Craftman set. I break a socket from time to time, but Sears always gives me a replacement for free. They have served me well.
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| A mechanic told me once that he bought all cheap tools when he started. As the cheap tools broke or wore out he bought the Craftsman, Mac or Snap On tools to replace them. That way, he had high quality tools for the tools he used regularly... and always had SOME kind of tools for the other jobs. |
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I broke the jack on my portable 24' Travel Trailer Motel Six on Wheels this evening. What to do I asked myself while calling a friend over.
Before my friend's arrival I flew to Tractor Supply in search of a new jack bearing the same tri bolt pattern. When I returned, my friend showed me where the three little bolts were at and asked me if I had any tools. "Sure, I have lots of tools, let us get started with my 9/16" ratchet socket that I paid the better part of four dollars for almost twelve years ago in Walmart."
I lined up the socket on the first bolt and wailed away at it. I felt the bolt turn and then skinned my knuckles as I sheared the pin between the ratchet and the socket from my Cheap Chinese Tool Kit!
"Not to worry, I mused to my friend. I think of tools just as my guns. I always have a few laying around for just such a predicament."
I lined up the socket from a new in the box Cheap Chinese Socket and Ratchet set. Within the next half turn, I sheared it with super red neck strength!
"Ding Dong Dang!!"
My friend mounted his motorcycle to find a suitable tool, while I proceeded to break the rest of my Cheap Chinese Tools! I heard a rumbling in the distance and saw my friend returing on his Harley bearing a Craftsman Ratchet and matching socket. "you can't possibly break this one" he said as he handed me a real tool with sleak lines and the Craftsman Name.
Within a few moments, I removed the old jack and installed the new. Double Ding Dang Dong!! No more CHEAP CHINESE TOOLS!!! So your guns do they have names like Raven Vulcan Glock Lorcin? Tactical Molon Labe: I do possess one .380 Lorcin. It still shoots, but I stopped testing it as I figured it is a good one to give to the gun confiscators. As all of my firearms go, it serves a secondary purpose of utility when all else is either out of ammo or destroyed, I am certain to empty the little six round magazine. |