Time to update Rick Potter's 2007 post on bad tool purchases?

[Frederick Skelly]

Live and learn. Sometimes you can't afford better, and sometimes you don't know any better. I'm guilty of both many many times

Me too, unfortunately.....

[Justin Ludwig]

Me too, unfortunately.....

+2

3hp Griz Shaper - great boat anchor and I sent it back
Shop Fox Drill Press
Kreg Router table's Fence

Customer Support from Safety Speed regarding a 15yr old panel saw (both American and Euro branches) I have 40+ shop hrs learning to set up a 2002 ES5 properly. I hate being ignorant on equipment, but I had to learn the good ol' fashioned way. It now cuts to .002 precision and I have the gray hairs to prove it.

Everything else I have I make work.

[Dan Friedrichs]

Every single stud finder I've ever bought.

Buy this.
http://franklinsensors.com/product-d...prosensor-710/
You will like it

[Charles Taylor]

My first HVLP sprayer was an inexpensive conversion touch-up gun I bought last winter from that humongous online retail site after seeing a positive review of it here. The Creeker who recommended it is clearly happy with his, but at a selling price of about $35, there have to be some lemons, and mine was. It never saw a real project. I replaced it almost immediately with a full-size conversion sprayer from Homestead.

[rudy de haas]

Powermatic shapers
A Powermatic tablesaw
Powermatic 15s planer

I've made some less than stellar purchases.

Umm, I suspect you'll get some argument from the local powermatic fans - there seem to be a lot of them here although, personally, I think it's largely because the paint subconsciously influences everyone who's had the pleasure of getting real mustard on a real hot dog at a ball game..

[Martin Wasner]

Inadequate for commercial use is the best way to sum it up. Those pieces have been replaced with SAC, SCMi, Format4, Northfield and Tannewitz.

[Martin Wasner]

To be fair, I still have a 6" Grizzlymatic jointer, and a mid 90's 66 that is fairly smooth, but neither are workhorses and live pretty easy lives.

[Brandon Speaks]

Harbor freight scroll saw was pretty bad, I knew it was a gamble going in though. Bosch bench top router table, that one might be my fault not learning to use it right.

[Jerome Stanek]

Mine was a Wagner airless sprayer never could get it to produce a nice spray drips and splatters.

[Justin Ludwig]

Buy this.
http://franklinsensors.com/product-d...prosensor-710/
You will like it

Yep. Best stud finder I've ever owned. It's been dropped off of many o' ladders - stick the 9V battery back in, sacrifice a chicken and it keeps working.

[glenn bradley]

I have been very lucky. Early on I used forums like this to get actual owners input and opinions. Still, despite many warnings I bought a 6" benchtop jointer . . . I was going to be the exception that proved the rule, right? Wrong!

[Nick Decker]

I have been very lucky. Early on I used forums like this to get actual owners input and opinions. Still, despite many warnings I bought a 6" benchtop jointer . . . I was going to be the exception that proved the rule, right? Wrong!

Sounds like me, and there are many of us.

[paul cottingham]

I agree. Replaced it with a mortiser and a handsaw.

Oops, while trying to fix it, i deleted it! I was referring to the FMT. I replaced it with a tennon saw, and a mortiser.

[Jim Morgan]

I agree. Replaced it with a mortiser and a handsaw.

Agree with whom? Replaced what?