A way to increase the value of H/F tools

My wife came back with 5, as I had asked her to get, and she had paid an additional $5.99 for a 1 year extended warranty, which I hadn't considered. They informed her at the store that the warranty will, in effect, cover all 5 grinders since they're not identified by any specific unit serial number. What this means is that if any grinder gives it up during the year, I take it back for a new one. What's more, I called to find out if I could upgrade the extended warranty to two years (which my wife had briefly considered but decided against because she was already buying something I hadn't asked for) and was told that I have thirty days to return the registration card to the store for a refund, and repurchase the 2 year warranty---for $10.

Now 2 years is definitely not forever, but it seems like a pretty good deal to know that I've got 2 years covered on 5 angle grinders at a total cost of less than $12 each, and at the end of 2 years I ought to still have 5 working grinders, and go from there.

By the way, I've returned products under warranty to a H/F retail store and not been given a lot of grief or had a lot of my time wasted.

Stan

Seems the paint had a coverage guarantee. So he begins to paint and of course it won't cover the entire room so he returns to Sears and says he didn't do what it should have covered. He gets a free gallon.

He did this again and again and even changed colors a few times. It was amazing.

All the best, Stan

I go there just to get stuff that I could use, and NOTHING else- no matter if on sale or not.

Let's face it, we go there to get away from high priced stuff that we're not going to use that often.

All in all, for an occaisional use just to have the tool laying around if you need it, it is not a bad alternative. There is no way I could afford a good 3/4 socket set, but the HF works well the maybe four times a year I use it.

So-if nothing else, HF makes good discussion material.

By the way, which is better? Ford, Chevy or Toyota trucks?

JU

Thanks for the heartfelt compliment. I've kind of gone all misty-eyed, but I'll try to type this without sobbing. (I suspect that SOB figures into this somewhere.)

Anyway, I kind of agree with you and Kemper, too. I owned 1 Chicago Electric grinder that lasted forever, and a bunch of them that didn't. Partly I'm influenced by what Joe Pro said about tools dying from other things than natural causes, partly I'm unhappy about the quality of some of the name brand equipment (Milwaukee 7" angle grinders and 14" chop saws) that's been purchased at the local community college welding shop in the last couple of years, and partly I'm just an old dog that can't seem to unlearn old tricks.

I did recently buy a Bosch 4-1/2" angle grinder that I haven't taken out of the box yet. By coincidence, it happened to cost almost exactly as much as I paid for those five H/F grinders. What I plan to do is try to divide my grinding time equally between the Bosch and the 5 el-cheapo's. Eventually I ought to know something. Of course by then (two or three years from now) Chinese grinders will probably cost $100 each and Bosch or Milwaukee grinders will cost $1,000.

All the best, Stan

All meant in good fun. Take care!