Yes, I’m alive. Indeed, I’m almost half-way finished milling my Tomix EF81 frame. More on that later.
I suppose that I am not supposed to like Harbor Freight, since their business solely involves importing cheaply made Chinese goods. Yet, I do. Today, I walked in with a short list of things to buy, and a reasonable budget. I walked out with more things than were on my list, and money left over.
On that list were a rotary tool and a light-duty vise. The “Hobby Vise” is half the price of Micro-Mark’s closest match, just as versatile, and appears at least as solidly built. The suction-cup holder is so strong, I fear it might be damaging the table it’s attached to.
On the other hand, the rotary tool is not even in the same class as a proper Dremel, but I’m finding it sufficient for my light-duty needs—especially since the Dremel alone would have consumed almost my entire tool budget.
So…hooray for Harbor Freight.
Being hyper-sensitive to dangling participles, I couldn’t help but notice your implication that you are an importer of cheaply made Chinese goods.
HAHAHA! I might leave that one in, being very funny.
I suppose that, being an importer of cheaply made Chinese goods, I am not supposed to like Harbor Freight.
You signed up just to say that? You are no fun at all. Actually, I’m just slightly surprised you read this blog—boring as it is to the non-modeler. But then, I guess I don’t really update my other blogs much anymore.
The beauty of RSS is that one can “read” a lot of blogs that one is only marginally interested in, on the off chance that something interesting comes up. And, though the technical aspects of the model-building don’t interest me much, I like to see that you’re making progress.