{"id":971,"date":"2006-05-01T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2009-11-02T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:55:54","slug":"fucking-harbor-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/fucking-harbor-freight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fucking Harbor Freight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordered from Harborfreight<\/span> Fucking Harborfreight!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just ordered from Harborfreight.com:<\/p>\n

1 \t91310-4VGA \t100 PC. SECURITY BIT SET<\/strong> 9.99 \t9.99
\nbecause I always wanted to be able to get behind those panels that I wasn’t supposed to. Not because I want to do anything bad, just because someone said, “No, you may not look here”<\/p>\n

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3 \t39440-5VGA \tPENCIL TORCH<\/strong> 5.99 \t17.97 I’ll be bringing the art of Peep Flambe to Burning Man. We had so much fun at the Chobunnpeggelly party torching peeps and making s’mores out of them, I thought the rest of the world might like to do so as well.<\/p>\n

Update: 2 of the 3 pencil torches leaked<\/strong>. After the event, I tried the last remaining one and it refused to fill. I threw them all out.<\/p>\n

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1 \t4807-0VGA \t5 PC. PRECISION PLIER SET<\/strong> 9.99 \t9.99 I’ve misplaced a pair of pliers that my grandfather owned. They’ll turn up, they’ll turn up. But in the mean time, I need some needlenose pliers for all my working with model airplanes and such.<\/p>\n

Update: The pliers suck.<\/strong> The wire cutters won\u2019t cut even 28 gauge wire.<\/p>\n

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2 \t42428-2VGA \tSPLIT LEATHER WORK GLOVES <\/strong> 0.99 \t1.98 Ninety-nine cent gloves! And they might be good gloves. They’ll probably end up being either alternative gloves for working in the shop (instead of always using my welding gloves) or go in my disaster go-bag.<\/p>\n

Update: The leather work gloves are awful.<\/strong> They stink of some awful awful rubbery-chemical smell. I tried to wash the smell out and the sink turned black black for several minutes. Apparently, they hadn\u2019t been dyed well at all. Now I have 2 pair of slightly damp, terribly smelly, color bleeding gloves. I put them in the closet inside a plastic bag to keep the smell at bay but the smell leached out and gave me a headache! I discarded them.<\/p>\n

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2 \t3015-1VGA \t80″ x 60″ WOOL BLANKET <\/strong> 5.99 \t11.98 I had said to myself that I’d just put my sleeping bag in my go-bag but then I remembered that it was snug -inside- my duvet cover… so I’m getting a spare blanket.<\/p>\n

Update: The wool blankets smelled like another kind of death<\/strong>. I tried putting them in a washing machine. The second they hit the water, the water turned bright red. The dye apparently hadn’t set. When I took them out of the machine, my hands turned red and they smelled just as horrid. I threw them out.<\/p>\n

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1 \t46157-1VGA \tSELF-POWERED AM\/FM RADIO\/FLASHLIGHT<\/strong> 9.99 \t9.99
\ndisaster go-bag. I’m a bit miffed that I recently purchased a $60 Freeplay radio that appears to do everything identically.<\/p>\n

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1 \t47873-4VGA \t16 OZ. RIP HAMMER WITH FIBERGLASS HANDLE <\/strong> 4.99 \t4.99 It’s good to have a hammer for occational tasks. It’s not a snazzy $30 hammer but an acceptable pound of steel on a stick. It’ll do.<\/p>\n

Update: The hammer is a laughing stock<\/strong>. This is the pi\u00c3\u00a8ce de r\u00e9sistance. How do you screw up a piece of metal on a stick? How?! I’ll tell you how. I can understand that the fiberglass handle transmits vibration poorly in a $5 hammer, I’m cool with that. But then, you make the head too convex and very smooth so that the hammer has no sweet spot; every strike glances off. You put the center of gravity far away from the head so it twists out of your hand when you miss the (non-existent) sweet spot. Friends have tried the hammer and they agreed with me.<\/p>\n

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4 \t40030-1VGA \t2 PC. COOLMAX(TM) DISPOSABLE RESPIRATORS <\/strong> 3.99 \t15.96 For my go-bag and to be brought to the playa.<\/p>\n

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1 \t91214-2VGA \tBLUE FLAME DESIGN AUTO DARKENING WELDING HELMET <\/strong> 59.99 \t59.99 This is the only thing I -needed- in this whole order. Why did I get all that other crap? I’m getting this for my summer project MIG welding waaay too much this summer.<\/p>\n

Update: The welding helmet works perfectly 90% of the time<\/strong>, making it completely worthless<\/strong><\/em>. 9 times out of 10 it auto-darkened instantly. That last time, it would take a full 1\/4 second and I’d be fucking blinded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordered from Harborfreight Fucking Harborfreight! I just ordered from Harborfreight.com: 1 91310-4VGA 100 PC. SECURITY BIT SET 9.99 9.99 because I always wanted to be able to get behind those panels that I wasn’t supposed to. Not because I want to do anything bad, just because someone said, “No, you may not look here” — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}