Re: [Amc-list] Throatless shear

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, hurry up and get it setup so I can get a report on it!
Seriously, China and Taiwan make some heavy old style crap that is good.
The problem is weeding out the true good stuff from the crap!

I'll probably take a chance on this one on evilbay as I have some cash burning a hole in my Paypal account :]

Otherwise I'd wait for the one on HF to go on sale.

If you've ever used one you quickly learn how simple and effective they are!
The leverage lets them cut sheet like butter and they can do some almost fine detail work too.
You're not limited to straight line cuts like the big shears. It is a little harder to get a real straight cut though it can be done.

I've not seen Eastwoods goon sale yet either.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
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2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
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I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, does anyone have any experience with NON HF Throatless shears? 
> 
> At work we (ahem) bought one from Eastwood. It's an import, but 
> Taiwanese or at least decent-looking. Kinda like Grizzly vs. Harbor 
> Freight; Grizzly seems like it ought to be junk but it is pretty good 
> quality.
> 
> Alas, haven't installed it yet, so I can't tell you more. I was supposed 
> to have it set up a month ago. It'll be in before school starts.
> 
> Of course before I even got it BOLTED TO THE FRICKEN TABLE some stoont 
> nicked the blade probably put a 1/4" bolt in it. Likely the same dim 
> bulb what ground aluminum in the bench grinder.
> 
> Just got the new lathe setup yesterday.
> 
> 
> (Our students aren't high school shop monkeys; they are what a friend 
> calls 'soft-handed new-media types', laptop kids. It's not their fault. 
> Not a single one of them ever had a pocket knife as a kid. If you want 
> to ask a revealing question? "When you were 10 did your parents let you 
> have a pocket knife"? Or ask that of the parents. Of course we cut our 
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