go high price and baby it or go low and buy two

As long as you have time to test it before you really need it for a job/project.

As long as you have time to test it and then go buy spares before you really need it for a job/project.

I bought a cheap paint sprayer. I've brought it home to use, tested it first and it sucked. I wasted paint and I wasted time going back out to buy a decent one.

There is risk: Wasted time. Sometimes time is money. Other times it's just wasted time, which also sucks.

Don't you mean *if* they work as intended?

if the tool is mission critical you always got to have a backup anyway

for example buying a sub 20 dollar palm nailer when you already have an air nailer that is aging but still working

now your replacement becomes the palm nailer instead of a high dollar air nailer

or if you never tried an air nailer you try the cheapo one first and return if unsatisfied

the thing is that thru many iterations the cheap stuff is getting to be very good hence the sell off of so many german companies to asia before they are completely worthless due to those iterations

You buy your way, I'll stick with mine.

If it's important, it's worth the price, at least to me.

DerbyDad03 wrote in news:67d70a59-a07b-4061-b17c- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I buy the best because I'm worth it.

I buy less than the best because you don't always need the best to solve your problem. Those cheap caulk guns solve the "get the stuff out of the tube" problem quite nicely!

Puckdropper

I generally try to fix everything that breaks. Not like the AVe guy, but I enjoy fixing stuff, or trying. What I have found over the years particularly modern history, is tools today are designed to fail. Often you will find the part that broke even in a good item, was crap. For example, my wife had a jeep grand cherry and the power window broke. Jeep wanted $400+ to fix it. It took me 30 minutes to replace the window regulator. The regulator was one unit, including the motor. You could not buy replacement parts. What broke was a 50 cent plastic gear. The only reason to have a 50 cent plastic gear instead of a $1 steel gear was built in failure. I replaced 3 more regulators @ $100+ apiece with exactly the same problem. Researching on the internet I learned this was a VERY common problem.

Similar problem with a White-Rodgers zone valve on my furnace. Valve quit working and when I ripped apart the valve mechanism, it was another

HF tools are amazingly cheap, and more often than not, the things that make them fail do not amount to all that much, and it seems to me with a few more dollars they could be make stuff to last a LOT longer for not much more money. Good example would be the Drill AVe reviewed and according to him, the lousy heat sink and placement would be the major failure point. I bet they paid some engineer extra to design in that failure point, so it cost them more to make an inferior design...

Personally, I think manufacturers could make good stuff for a lot less than they charge, and they simply price items based on how long before you will be buying another rather than how much they cost to make. I know there is a correlation between cost of parts and selling price, but I know it is nowhere near proportional.

;-)

...and I can.

And they're disposable.

The cheap orange HD caulk guns are great. When you stop squeezing, the product stops coming out.

he does a clear explanation on all the things you bring up here

also mentions an interesting story about a company that tried to go the camel hump model rather than the high price and longer lasting model and they could not do it

think it was festool

a little past 20 minutes in he draws and explains exactly what they do and why