Didn't think I would ever see one of these again

37 chief · Feb 1, 2022

I was walking around in my China store today, and there big as life, was a hand air pump. I didn't think they were made anymore. That is all we had for airing up tires. If my memory serves me, it took 200 strokes to fill a car tire. I don't have any idea for a tractor tire. I am sure a lot of you remember those days. Then I mounted an old refrigerator compressor with a small motor on top of a butane tank. Took forever to fill, but I had air out of a hose. Stan

Texasmark · Feb 1, 2022

You mean HF store? You have arrived when you go to town and pass the HF store....not needing anything.....at 80 I finally have arrived.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 1, 2022

I go past HF 2x daily. Can't tell you the last time I went inside the store.

A few blocks away is a Menards store.
I don't frequent the Menards store as often as I used to.

Have I arrived??

I do most of my shopping on Amazon.

Dingo3 · Feb 1, 2022

Thats actually kind of sad. At the rate business are closing we wont have any choice at all.

rustred · Feb 1, 2022

and thats all we had before also. i remember changing ties on 15 and 16 inch rims and yes took a long time to pump up. that was exercise in its self. a bicycle tire was a piece of cake.

Paul from MI · Feb 1, 2022

Kids got me a cheapo HF air compressor just to keep in the shed. Darn thing held pressure from Novemeber to April, never had a compressor do that.

shaun wallace · Feb 1, 2022

After bicycle tire pump I took bad Clinton engine, removed camshaft, added sparkplug tire pump and 1/4 hp electric motor. Aired lots of tires with it and 55 years later still around but not in use.

Johnhof · Feb 1, 2022

Was in a Harbor Freight yesterday. Had my son in law along for his first trip. We left happy. Hes an Amazon customer but found plenty of bargains and liked the great customer service I always enjoyed.

Russ from MN · Feb 1, 2022

We had a hand pump, but we had a pto pump for bigger tires, and got an air compressor about 1963. Now I have about 7 of them, counting the little 12 volt ones that I carry in the vehicles.

Russ from MN · Feb 1, 2022

I want to add, 3 of my compressors are home made, using automotive AC pumps, 2 Chrysler and a Ford! And steel propane tanks from fork trucks, my place of work switched to aluminum, and gave away the steel ones.

caterpillar guy · Feb 2, 2022

Amazon is as evil as the bolshevik party in control. I don't bother with Hf for much of anything. bought a new tire and wheel for my hand cart. It will get tipped sideways on the hub so I have to bump it straight sounds like a great deal to me NOT. Hf and Junk are one in the same. Last of their chance for me. I don't buy much on line anyway have a pretty good supply of local places and just as cheap as those online places most times. Less of a problem returning things too.

SVcummins · Feb 2, 2022

No scamazon for me either thanks .

M-MAN · Feb 2, 2022

I've kept one at my daughter's for years to air up the lawnmower tires. The last two I've bought came from the land of almost right but that's all the hardware store had.

Bret4207 · Feb 2, 2022

(quoted from post at 20:32:00 02/01/22) I go past HF 2x daily. Can't tell you the last time I went inside the store.

A few blocks away is a Menards store.
I don't frequent the Menards store as often as I used to.

Have I arrived??

I do most of my shopping on Amazon.

Odd, Amazon is the absolute last place I would shop. I'll gladly do without rather than help Bezos.

There is no option these days it seems, as far as buying from the designers of the Wuhan Flu. Doesn't matter who you buy from, most of the stuff comes from Communist China. And if there was something made in America, it's doubtful we'd be able to afford much of it. We've priced ourselves out of being competitive in consumer goods. That will come back to bite us pretty soon!

This post was edited by Bret4207 on 02/02/2022 at 04:36 am.

Bret4207 · Feb 2, 2022

(quoted from post at 20:32:00 02/01/22) I go past HF 2x daily. Can't tell you the last time I went inside the store.

A few blocks away is a Menards store.
I don't frequent the Menards store as often as I used to.

Have I arrived??

I do most of my shopping on Amazon.

Odd, Amazon is the absolute last place I would shop. I'll gladly do without rather than help Bezos.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 2, 2022

It's your money, shop where you want.

I only use Amazon when I can't buy what I want in a local store.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 2, 2022

Dingo,
Sad to say my local stores don't have what I want to buy.
Also sad that commercial real estate is suffering from excessive property taxes in Indiana, commercial phone and electric rates too.
The boys at UPS say 90% of their business is with amazon...

DoubleR · Feb 2, 2022

I still do some bicycling but not as much as I use to. I use a hand pump all the time to air the tires which you do often to keep the pressure up to as much as 110 lbs on some of them. I have a couple small hand pumps mounted on a couple of my bikes for emergency tire repair out on the road. A air compressor would blow one of those small tires right off the rim. Ask me how I know.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 2, 2022

My wife had a pretty yellow one she got when she bought a bicycle, it even has a gauge on it. She sold the bike, but I kept the pump, I have it in the sxs cause I have one tire that goes low and needs a little air once a week. Put the spare on my trailer the other day and it had only about 20 psi in it, decided to use the hand pump to get it to 45 psi. That was a workout!

Bret4207 · Feb 3, 2022

(quoted from post at 10:43:47 02/02/22) It's your money, shop where you want.

I only use Amazon when I can't buy what I want in a local store.

Thank you, I will do so!

BarnyardEngineering · Feb 3, 2022

They have bicycle pumps at Walmart, in the bicycle section.

I don't know about you but the last time I went through the bicycle section at any department store, I was 12-13 years old.

So if you're anything like me, you might think that bicycle pumps were extinct, simply because they don't sell them in the beer aisle.

Naylorbros · Feb 3, 2022

I did the same thing when I was 15 with a Briggs.

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