[PLUG-TALK] Keyboard cleaning, again

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> HF is one of my favorite places for tools. I live in Overlook, so they are
> easy to get to, although they are also a couple blocks from a Max yellow
> stop. Their building is an old Safeway store with acres of parking.

John,

   I used to go there but now there's one in Gresham only a kilometer south
of here.

> You have to be careful buying stuff there, though. The majority of their
> products are from China.

   Their tools are OK, in my experience, but stay away from anything with a
cutting edge. They coat their HSS (High Speed Steel) drill bits to look like
vanadium, but they won't cut warm butter.

> On the other hand I bought a chop saw from them and used it to install
> Hardiplank on a house. It performed flawlessly and cost half as much as
> the equivalent Japanese branded tool from Home Depot.

   If the tool is used infrequently (like the hammer drill, sander, and
others I bought from them) they last. Their air tools are good, too. When I
want a high quality tool I buy Porter-Cable, Delta, or Bosch.

Rich