Kraig - My 122 came with the hard face blades. They were worn bad too on the ends , almost to a point but they still did fairly good. I think for the price they're still worth buying for the longevity of them IF you sharpen them correctly. Plus they grind up sandstone rocks too
You mean they're making belts smaller too these days like everything else so they can try to keep the price the same ?
Seen the size of M&Ms and Resses lately ?
Dennis - Okay you can stay Team Cheap. Me thinks they built the paint gun cleaning cabinets to get their gun clean. Hardly anybody will spend the time to properly clean one.
When I was working at a boat factory making / repairing fiberglass molds I went to use the paint pot one day and somebody had let about two inches of resin harden up in the bottom. That was just laziness and sorriness on their part. I cleaned it out with methylene chloride. (that stuff will eat anything)
Then there's those that think 5 minutes of their time is worth gold and they can't spend time cleaning one. Cabinets were invented to get money from somebody with more money than time.
My Binks #7 is clean on the inside. It gets thoroughly cleaned and taken apart. It does have paint on the outside that cleaner wouldn't get by the time it had dried by the time I got finished painting but I look at it this way. It shows how long I've had it and if I ever need a paint sample to match colors ...
It just erks me that people will try to save a couple pennies and hang on to them until they die.
My Grandfather wouldn't even buy me one wrench to work on his farm equipment so I had to use my Kmart metric wrenches that I bought to work on my motorcycle to work on his Vermeer baler and disc mower. When I'd break a wrench he wouldn't give me money to buy another one. My SAE starter set , an SK socket set was given to me one Christmas by a guy that I worked for at the time when I was 15.
38 years later and I've still got'em.
My Grandfather died worth $3mil and he didn't get to take a penny of it with him and he made everyone else suffer because he was to tight to buy something that they could work with or build a shop to work in. I've spent my last penny many times to get something I needed to work on something and I buy the best one that I can scrape up the money to get.
Buy good tools once , save money later by not having to buy them again.
Sincerely, The GRUMP!
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